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Background Jazz Piano Music For Any Gig
Improvise jazz piano with a walking bass line. You'll learn the Turnaround Progression, the blues scale, and 3 exercises to practice improvisation.
Learn Happy Birthday in a Cocktail Jazz piano style.
Learn to play 3 blues piano runs to take your blues improv to the next level. Runs include the Crunch Run, Turn-Run, & Gospel Slide Triplet Run.
Master the most important chord progression in jazz, the 2-5-1 progression, with 5 piano exercises using 7th chords in all 12 keys and in all inversions.
Learn how to play lead sheets using 7th chords on piano, including 8 lead sheet songs, chord inversions, and how to add right hand harmony notes.
Learn to play 5 amazing jazz piano scales for improv on dominant 7 chords, including Mixolydian, Dominant Diminished, and Altered Scales.
Learn 3 exercises to master slow blues piano improv, inluding 8th note, triplet, and slide exercises over the minor blues walkdown progression.
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 how to improvise over the Extended Turnaround Progression, including 3 left hand accompaniments, 4 right hand soloing techniques, and 6 exercises to master improv.
Learn all of the Minor Chord Inversions based on chord shapes. See the "flat" shapes, "triangle" shapes, and "V" shape chords. Then cover the remaining 3.
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.
Review the notes and fingerings for all major and minor scales through the circle of 5ths. Majors are presented with the relative minor scales.
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 all of the Major Chord Inversions based on chord shapes. See the "flat" shapes, "triangle" shapes, and "V" shape chords. Then cover the remaining 3.
Learn 48 exercises to master your diatonic 7th chords in all 12 keys, including blocked and broken exercises.
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 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 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.
