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Jazz Piano: 4 Tunes & Practice Routines

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Overview

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Learn how to play jazz piano. Discover new jazz piano techniques and bolster the skills that you already have in your toolkit.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. "Tune Up"
  • "Tune up"
  • Pentatonics for “Tune Up”
  • Practicing the new pentatonics
  • Two-handed comping using tune up
2. Essential Jazz Scales 5
  • Essential jazz scales: C7, F7, and Bb major 7 bop scales
  • Practicing these scales as a cadence
3. Putting It All Together: "Tune Up"
  • “Tune Up” – putting it all together, part 1
  • “Tune Up” – putting it all together, part 2
4. ”Funk in C”
  • “Funk in C”
5. Putting It All Together: 2-5-1
  • The complete I-VI-II-V cycle, part 1
  • The complete I-VI-II-V cycle, part 2
  • Putting it all together – playing on I-VI-II-V
6. Altered Dominant Scales
  • Altered dominant scales, part 1
  • Altered dominant scales, part 2
  • Altered dominant scales, part 3
  • Practicing altered dominant scales

Taught by

George Whitty

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