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Jazz Piano Lessons: 2 Song Foundations

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Overview

Discover how to get started with two-handed harmony, bolster your jazz vocabulary by covering basic—and instantly recognizable—bluesy chord voicings, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Playing with Both Hands
  • Introduction to two-handed comping
  • Two-handed comping: Chord inversions
  • Two-handed voicings: Part 1
  • Two-handed voicings: Part 2
  • Two-handed voicings: Drop the 3rd
2. Basic Jazz Vocabulary
  • B7 9-5 voicings: Part 1
  • B7 9-5 voicings: Part 2
  • Extended B7 9-5 voicings
  • Practicing timing using the B7 9-5 voicings: Part 1
  • Practicing timing using the B7 9-5 voicings: Part 2
3. Pentatonic Scales
  • Essential jazz scales: The pentatonic scale
  • Practicing pentatonics
  • Two more pentatonics
  • Practicing pentatonics using approach patterns
  • Practicing pentatonics using the F7 blues
4. Putting It All Together: Combining Scales, Pentatonics, and Patterns
  • Combining bop scales, pentatonics, and approach patterns: Part 1
  • Combining bop scales, pentatonics, and approach patterns: Part 2
5. Adding More to Your Playing
  • Adding guide tones
  • Playing motivically: Part 1
  • Playing motivically: Part 2
  • Mixing it all up
  • Combining everything you've learned so far

Taught by

George Whitty

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