What you'll learn
- Diversity approaches to improvising over chord changes
- Learn new melodic improvisational tools
- Challenge yourself with complex rhythmic ideas
- Improve your understanding of harmony as an improvisational tool
- Draw elements from the blues to diversify your jazz improvising
Requirements
- It's recommended that you take the first course within this series before diving into this course For more advanced players, this won't be as necessary.
- A basic understanding of piano chords and scales
Description
Are you yearning for more jazz improv tricks? Did the first course not satiate your need for jazz language tidbits?!
Fear not, as this second course within this series will help you further diversify your soloing as a jazz instrumentalist.
In this course we will cover melodic, harmonic and rhythmic jazz improv tricks that will get you excited for your next solo. While there are times where we must simply use our ear and navigate through the notes/rhythms organically, this is mostly cultivated by our study of individual concepts and how to fuse them together. That's why everything in this course is compartmentalized in a way that you can combine these ideas together to make them your own.
While mostly intended for intermediate level players, this course has some for beginners and experts alike. I've done my best to approach each concept at a pace and depth that can make sense for newer players, but also not bore the players that are just looking for the "meat and potatoes" of each class.
In this course we will cover popular concepts such as :
- pentatonic diads
- rolling
- chromatic clusters
...and we will even cover some more advanced topics like:
- phrasing 5's
- polyrhythms
- outside soloing
...and a ton more!
So whether you just want to brush up your chops, or get excited for some new concepts to dive deep into, this course has something to offer nearly all jazz pianists.
Remember to practice the material thoroughly, apply it in performances when possible, and most of all study the classes that you're most passionate the most! This should be both fun and educational, while also giving you an edge as a soloist!
Keep your eyes wide open and your ears finely tuned, as this course is not one to brush over!
Who this course is for:
- Beginner-intermediate jazz pianists
- Beginner-intermediate jazz guitarists/horn players
- Jazz players looking to learn new improvisational approaches
- Intermediate level players looking to approach concepts they may already know in a new light
- Advanced players hoping to fill in some gaps within their bag of improvisational tricks
- Students studying jazz looking to supplement their education with additional material
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 194 Reviews
- 1,427 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".