Level 3

Learn how to play Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas lead sheet in a Jazz Ballad or Cocktail Jazz piano style using 8 essential improv techniques.

Learn to improvise over the Extended Turnaround Progression, including 2 left hand accompaniments, 12 right hand soloing techniques, 12 improv exercises, and the 3 Line Building Principles.

Learn 4 note voicings over the major and minor 251 patterns in 2 positions. This sheet applies drop 2 and quartal harmony with common jazz extensions on all 12 keys.

Learn to play Jingle Bells in a jazz swing piano style, including how to color your chords with extensions & alterations, how to swing your melody, & more.

Learn to play Jingle Bells in a jazz swing piano style, including how to color your chords with extensions & alterations, how to swing your melody, & more.

Learn how to play It Came Upon a Midnight Clear in a jazz waltz style.  Explore chord shells, right hand harmony, slides, fills, & turns, and exercises for soloing.

Right hand embellishments: harmony, slides, pops, fill, turns, rolls

Soloing and connecting scales

Q&A

Melody, Chords, Harmonic Functions

Left Hand Rootless Voicings Explained

Learn how to improvise jazz piano with in 6 steps. You'll learn the Turnaround Progression, Mixo-Blues scale, & 3 exercises to master jazz improv.

Learn 3 exercises to master jazz piano improv using the Turnaround Progression and the Mixo-Blues scale.  We'll cover 8th notes, triplets, and slides.

Learn how to play rootless voicings in the A and B position for each chord type, along with 2 essential exercises using the 2-5-1 progression.

Learn 2 jazz piano intro runs that work on any lead sheet, including Cocktail Jazz, Jazz Swing, Latin Jazz, Blues, Bossa Nova, Samba, and Jazz Ballads.

Learn 2 essential runs that you can use on any jazz tune. You'll learn 2 stock runs, the Cocktail Jazz Run and the Blues Run.

Learn 3 essential blues piano Fire Licks and riffs to create an exciting blues improvisation. You'll improv over 12 Bar Blues with your teacher Jonny May.

Learn 3 essential blues piano Fire Licks that you can use in your blues improvisation, including double slide licks, triplet licks, and rolled licks.

Learn how to play It Came Upon a Midnight Clear in a jazz waltz piano style.  We'll cover rootless voicings, right hand harmony, slides, chord pops, fills, turns, & exercises for soloing.

Learn to play Ragtime Piano with Disneyland Piano Legend Johnny Hodges. You'll learn rag rolls, ornaments, the wolfe whistle, and 6 rag roll exercises.

Learn 6 essential ragtime piano exercises, including forward roll, reverse roll, combined roll, triplet roll, & ornament exercises, plus the wolf whistle effect.