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Music Instruments Jazz

Jazz Piano Chords - Rich Sounding Jazz Chords for the Piano

All the jazz piano chords that you need to play great jazz on the piano
Rating: 4.7 out of 54.7 (100 ratings)
870 students
Created by Martin Cohen
Last updated 11/2020
English
English
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What you'll learn

  • You will be able to play all types of chords (major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th, altered, diminished, augmented).
  • For each type of chord, you will know how to play several different chord voicings in all the inversions.
  • You will know how to add notes and alterations to chords to make them sound jazzy.
  • You will be able to play slash chords.
  • You will be able to play "So What"-chord voicings, fourth-chord voicings and upper structures.
  • You will know how to create your own chord voicings.

Requirements

  • Basic piano skills (knowing the keys on the piano, ability to play simple songs on the piano).
  • Be able to play the major and natural minor scales in as many keys as possible.
  • You need a piano (acoustic or electronic).

Description

THE COURSE THAT REVEALS ALL THE SECRETS OF JAZZ PIANO CHORDS

You always wondered how experienced jazz piano players create those rich sounding jazz chords? This course will teach YOU how to play them on the piano.


DISCOVER QUICKLY HOW CHORDS WORK AND HOW TO ADD THAT RICH JAZZ SOUND TO BASIC CHORDS

Detailed explanation by an experienced teacher (25+ years of experience) makes that you will quickly understand how to form even the most complicated jazz piano chords.


YOU WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO PLAY ALL THE JAZZ TUNES YOU WANT ON THE PIANO, HAVE A "LIBRARY" OF CHORD VOICINGS AT YOUR DISPOSAL, AND EVEN CREATE YOUR OWN CHORD VOICINGS

You will be able to play every chord-type that exists in all the inversions possible, in close position and with the notes more spread out, so that with one and the same chord, you can create different emotions, with more or with less tension.


TRY THIS COURSE WITHOUT ANY RISK.

If you’re still not sure, why not just give it a try? It’s without any risk: if for whatever reason this is not the course for you, you can get a full refund within 30 days after purchase.

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Course characteristics

Since this course is for all levels, beginners to more advanced jazz piano players, this course starts with how basic chords (major 7th, minor 7th, dominant 7th, diminished & augmented) are formed, and continues to advanced chords with added notes and alterations, "So What"-chords, fourth-chords, upper structures and how to create your own chords.

More advanced piano players that already know how basic chords are made, might want to skip the first sections and jump directly in into the more advanced sections: have a look at the curriculum and decide depending on your level where to begin.

As said: beginning jazz piano players can do this course. But be aware that "beginning jazz piano player" doesn't mean a total beginner on the piano: you need at least some ability to play simple songs on the piano and you need to be able to play the major and natural minor scales in as many keys as possible on the piano.

For an even better understanding of how jazz 'works', it would be good to study also some jazz theory, but this is not absolutely needed to follow this course.

This course can very well be done as a course 'on its own', but could also complement any other jazz piano course.



Topics covered in this course

Basic triads (for beginners)

Basic 7th chords (for beginners)

II-V-I chord progressions

Sus-chords

Adding notes to chords

Chord voicings in several positions

So What chords

Fourth chords

Upper structures

Create your own chords

Information about comping (accompanying)

Tritone substitution


Who this course is for:

  • This course is for beginning to more advanced jazz piano players wanting to be able to play jazz piano chords.
  • This course is not for total beginners on the piano, and not for the very experienced/professional jazz pianist, but for all those between those 2 extremes.

Featured review

Guven Oguz
Guven Oguz
92 courses
38 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a week ago
Martin Cohen is a great instructor offering a few very well designed courses with clear explanations and tons of theory / knowledge. I also enrolled his jazz theory course and both are more than recommended. Most probably I will repeat that course from start to finish again because the contents are not easy to digest immediately (although I am not a complete beginner of music theory) :)

Course content

10 sections • 39 lectures • 3h 9m total length

  • Preview03:15

  • Preview01:18
  • Preview04:05
  • Preview03:56
  • Preview06:03
  • Preview02:21
  • Inversions
    02:22
  • Preview02:10

  • Preview02:13
  • Preview03:10
  • Preview06:10
  • Diminished chords
    04:05
  • Augmented chords
    02:39
  • Minor major 7th chords
    01:29
  • Chord inversions
    01:48
  • Slash notation - II
    01:16

  • The II-V-I progression
    15:01
  • Playing the II-V-I progression in all 12 keys
    03:52

  • Sus chords
    05:07

  • Preview04:15
  • Adding notes to major 7th chords
    03:45
  • Adding notes to minor 7th chords
    03:39
  • Adding notes to dominant 7th chords
    05:34
  • Adding more than 1 note at the time - Altered chord
    07:39
  • The II-V-I progression (A position / B position)
    04:37
  • Playing the II-V-I progression in all 12 keys
    03:47

  • Major 7th chord voicings
    05:55
  • Minor 7th chord voicings
    06:12
  • Dominant 7th chord voicings
    12:53
  • Altered chord voicings
    06:13
  • Diminished chord voicings
    03:41
  • Augmented chord voicings
    01:59

  • Preview10:18
  • Fourth-chords
    04:22
  • So What & Fourth-chords in other keys
    03:26

  • Upper structures
    07:54

  • Build your own chord voicings
    09:07
  • Information about comping
    04:30
  • BONUS lecture: Jazz theory - Tritone substitution
    07:38

Instructor

Martin Cohen
Teacher, musician and composer
Martin Cohen
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 2,739 Reviews
  • 22,191 Students
  • 6 Courses

Martin Cohen is since about 25 years a teacher of physics, mathematics and informatics.  

At the moment, he teaches at the European School in Luxembourg.  

Martin is originally from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  

He is a passionate musician and composer. Since the age of 8 years, he plays the piano.  

He played in several rock, blues and jazz bands and he has at the moment a jazz trio.   

He also teaches the piano, music theory and composing techniques.   

Martin has a masters degree in physics from the Free University in Amsterdam.


UPDATE (summer 2019):

Martin quit his day job as a school teacher to concentrate for the full 100% on online music teaching.   

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