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How do you keep from playing amateur sounding piano accompaniment patterns? Use these 3 simple steps to upgrade your accompaniment texture today.
Learn to play electrifying rock piano solos in 4 steps with these improv techniques for all levels including double stops, slides, turns and more.
These simple techniques will help the amateur pianist improvise contemporary piano lines that sound refined and professional.
In this workshop, you will learn how to improvise piano over major chords with the Lydian scale. We'll cover 4 advanced soloing techniques, 5 left hand accompaniments, 11 common chords, and we'll learn how to solo over multiple chords.
In this workshop, you will learn how to improvise piano over major chords with the Lydian scale. We'll cover essential soloing techniques, left hand accompaniments, common chord progressions and rhythms, and we'll learn how to solo over multiple chords.
Take your jazz piano playing to the next level. Memorize hundreds of jazz songs by learning 8 common chord progressions found in jazz fake books.
Learn to master the stride piano techniques that dominated early solo jazz piano styles for nearly half-a-century with this #1 stride piano exercise.
Piano students of all levels will learn to improvise effortless and musical lines with the major scale in the contemporary style using these 3 techniques.
Learn an advanced gospel funk piano arrangement of Go Tell It on the Mountain. Starting with the lead sheet, we'll learn the melody & chords, how to stylize the left hand, embellish the right hand, and other advanced gospel techniques.
Learn how to play Go Tell it On the Mountain in a gospel funk style. Starting with the lead sheet, we’ll memorize the melody/chords, stylize the left hand gospel groove, embellish the right hand melody, and learn a variety of funky gospel techniques.
Learn how to play a beautiful jazz ballad piano accompaniment of the classic Christmas song, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.
What is cocktail blues piano? You can use these 4 steps to master this specific dialect of cocktail jazz to add some bluesy personality to your sound.
This blues lesson is like no other. You will get more beginner blues piano mileage out of 2 chords and 4 notes than you thought possible with these 6 steps!
Learn a breathtaking contemporary piano arrangement of the holiday favorite "O Holy Night" with a breakdown of contemporary piano techniques for all levels.
Learn an advanced jazz ballad piano arrangement of Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Starting with the lead sheet, we'll learn the melody & chords, how to stylize the left hand, how to harmonize the right hand, and other advanced jazzy techniques.
Learn how to play Hark the Herald Angels Sing in a jazz ballad piano style. Starting with the lead sheet, we'll learn the melody, chords, how to stylize the left hand, how to harmonize the right hand, and other jazzy techniques.
This Quick Tip is the ultimate cure for the common chord progression with 10 unique techniques to harmonize your favorite jazz tunes on piano.
Learn the techniques to expand your jazz vocabulary with three useful exercises. First Austin explains how to play arpeggios over all the changes. Next, he covers the "Rock Climber" exercise, and finally he provides a brief overview of "upper structures."
Most jazz piano students spend hours drilling chords and scales—fewer work on their jazz swing feel. Use these 3 techniques to balance your practice.
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 an advanced contemporary arrangement of O Holy Night. Starting with the lead sheet, we'll learn the melody & chords, how to stylize the left hand, how to harmonize the right hand, and other advanced contemporary techniques.
