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Discover a fun improv practice game for expanding your jazz vocabulary with original 2-5-1 jazz licks using 3 different dominant scales.
How do Hollywood film composers like John Williams, Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer create gripping chord progressions? Learn 3 tricks to create cinematic chords on piano.
Learn the most important fundamentals for the Key of Gb Major with the scale, diatonic chords, and common chord progressions. Then put it all together with an original tune, “Angel of My Eyes .”
In this comprehensive jazz swing course, we'll learn how to accompany on Fly Me to the Moon. Starting with the lead sheet, we’ll memorize the chords, review some basic left hand patterns, add right hand fills, and learn an intro/outro for a beautiful final arrangement.
Bored with music theory? Check out this C Natural Minor Scale—The Complete Guide...everything you need to create beautiful minor piano music.
"The Lick" jazz meme is a pervasive musical phrase used so much as to become an inside joke among jazz musicians. Here's how to tastefully play it without shame.
Looking to reach some new milestones in your jazz improv? Take some giant steps with these 3 jazz exercises to practice every day!
Learn to read, interpret and personalize jazz melody from a lead sheet using established melodic and rhythmic idioms of jazz expression.
In this comprehensive jazz swing course, we'll learn how to accompany on Autumn Leaves. Starting with the lead sheet, we’ll memorize the chords, review some basic left hand patterns, add right hand fills, and learn an intro/outro for a beautiful final arrangement.
In this course, we’ll learn how to play a traditional minor blues. We’ll master the chord progression, stride pattern, chord extensions, an original melody, accompaniment patterns, and a variety of essential solo techniques.
This Complete Guide on the Mixo-Blues Scale is your missing manual for professional blues piano soloing concepts and improvisation ideas.
You've heard of drop 2 chords, but what about lift 2 chords? If you want your playing to sound priceless, then invest in "The Gold Chord Voicing."
In this course, we’ll learn how to play a traditional minor blues. We’ll master the chord progression, triads & 7th chords, shell voicings, an original melody, accompaniment patterns, and a variety of essential solo techniques.
If you want to play blues piano with an authentic feel, don't neglect the left hand. Learn to master slow blues piano accompaniment in 3 steps.
Learn the ultimate piano chord hack that professional jazz pianists use to navigate complex jazz harmonies with ease—upper structure triads!
Learn Jonny's Shape Shifter technique to transform basic piano chords into intriguing soundscapes—perfect for modern piano accompaniment.
How about a change in your major playing? That's right...these 5 alternate scales to improvise on major chords are game changers!
In this workshop, we're learning a swinging arrangement of Jingle Bells. We'll reharmonize the lead sheet, add a syncopated rhythm, embellish with chord pops and a walking bass line, and learn a beautiful intro/outro!
This exercise prepares beginner piano students to play jazz standards by mastering 2-5-1 progressions using chord shells in all 12 keys.
In this workshop, we're learning a jazzy arrangement of Silent Night. We'll reharmonize the lead sheet with extensions, add a swing accompaniment pattern, embellish the melody with fills, passing chords, and learn a beautiful intro/outro!
This comprehensive course covers dominant block chords. We’ll learn these chords with fun exercises in each key, and apply them to short songs in a bossa, swing, ballad, and funk style.
