What you'll learn
- Explore various patterns for chord application (from rootless to quartal voicings)
- Develop ii-V-I lineations
- Various chromatic approaches to chords and melodic lines
- Apply various fingering patterns to keep your dexterity sharp
- Fine-tune your enclosures to connect harmonic lines
Requirements
- Students should know the notes of the piano, and basic 7th chord shapes
- Students that can read notation will get the most out of the pdf's provided
Description
Whether you are hoping to improve your knowledge of jazz harmony, or simply want to learn how to wrap your fingers around more complex jazz lines, this course if for you!
This detailed course offers 10 varied jazz piano exercises and over 45 accompanying PDF files. While the courses cover the exercises in practice, visually, the PDFs answer any questions students might have about fingerings and exercise variations.
What to expect:
- detailed instructional videos of each exercise
- notes/fingerings for all exercises
- varied studies to help students keep a wide technical breadth
- variations of exercises to further develop your approach
- complimentary video classes and pdf's to accomodate various types of learning styles and players at various levels
So many pianists that dive into studying jazz don't have a solid approach to practicing harmonic and melodic content. These exercises are perfect to get you started with a practice routine, and are a great foundation to build off of. Many jazz exercises are either too basic, or too complex. Whereas the exercises in this course aim to help beginner-intermediate pianists explore technical approaches that can instantly be used within their improvisations and song-writing.
Our time at the instrument is limited, so we want to make the most of this valuable time. Hence, having a strong and focused practice routine is the best way to make sure our time isn't wasted. They say "practice makes perfect", but I'd venture to add that "PERFECT practice makes perfect". For use to get our practice perfected, we need exercises that challenge us, exercise that are contrasting in nature, and exercises that are clear/concise with fingerings and approaches explained in detail. That's what this course offers.
These exercises are meant to be timeless, so you can always come back to practicing them to help you instill the fundamentals of jazz piano techniques. Use these classes as a foundation that you can build off of, and you'll be quickly underway to improving your playing as a jazz pianist.
So, let's not bog you down with more words, and instead jump straight into your first exercise!
*Note: many of these exercises can also work for guitar and other instruments, but the primary instrument recommended is piano/keyboard.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner-Intermediate Jazz Pianists
- Intermediate level pianists looking to add some jazzy technical exercises
- Jazz theorists
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 194 Reviews
- 1,431 Students
- 26 Courses
Josh Cook is a musician and composer who is proud to call Toronto his home. Here in the city his musical talents have flourished to career highs. While educating himself at York University Josh earned his master’s degree in music composition and performed in a local band called Cool Man Cool. The band's success earned them an opportunity to share the stage with the legendary Pharrell Williams (as N.E.R.D). Josh’s love for the studio blossomed while co-writing and producing Cool Man Cool's first full length studio album.
After honing his musical performanace talents, he began to focus on his true passion of digital composition and studio production. Josh has an extensive library of his own music, primarily within electronic, hip-hop, orchestral, and solo piano. He has also mixed and mastered numerous albums by artists such as Simcoe and Chloe Watkinson.
Josh’s never-ending creativity is not something he keeps to himself. For the past decade he has been teaching music and passing on his knowledge and skills to budding musicians throughout Toronto and the GTA.
Currently Josh is focusing his talents on a career in composing for film/video. Despite Josh’s love for audio he has always been inspired by the visual arts which provides him with the unique ability to bring images to life with his sonic creations.
Josh is now focusing his attention towards online courses, developing his social media presence, and composing music for media. His philosophy is "The more I learn, the more I teach. The more I teach, the more I learn".