Jazz Piano Lessons

Explore basic jazz chord structure from a lead sheet, including triads, major seventh open-position voicings, and dominant seven substitutions, with swing improvisation in several keys.

Learn left hand jazz voicings that omit the root for two five one progressions, with inversions and common-tone voice leading, across keys, plus open positions and 13th chords.

Walk the bass with the left hand while the right hand improvises or plays the melody, using scale-like left-hand voicings over a tune with 16th notes in a Lydian pattern.

Lesson 7 introduces fourths, tritone basic voicings, and maj9(#11) chords, reinforcing left-hand two-five-one voicings and improvisation across keys.

Explore the circle of fifths and circle of fourths to map all 12 keys, then learn and voice sus and phrygian chords, expand jazz vocabulary, and improvise over 'Strolling Along'.

Explore nine upper-structure concepts for C7, including diminished-scale ideas and altered or melodic minor options, with emphasis on tritone harmony, sharp and flat extensions, and chord substitutions for jazz improvisation.

Explore the so-called so what chords, their inversions and voicings, and apply pentatonic-based improvisation across keys, revealing major, minor, and lydian variations for jazz piano practice.

Explore advanced jazz piano voicings, including minor 11th, dominant seven substitutions, sus chords, and two-five-one progressions, with practical practice strategies and real-world applications.

Explore melodic minor harmony in jazz, deriving chords from the melodic minor scale and voicing them in left-hand voicings across all keys.

Harmonize a 12 tone melody using the discussed structures, exploring left-hand dominant sevenths and right-hand voicings, and experiment with multiple, original harmonic approaches.

Learn to improvise on a one-chord progression by reharmonizing a lead sheet. Explore upper-structure ideas, circle of fifths harmony, and seven-chord concepts to expand your jazz vocabulary.

Explore reharmonizing 'Angels We Have Heard on High' with a lead sheet and practice routine, then craft your own reharmonizations using circle of fifths and seventh chords.

In jazz piano lessons, lesson 18 guides you to improvise on a real-world chord progression with left-hand chords and your own variations.

Explore improvisation on nontraditional jazz pieces and practice modal composition with the silent movie piece, using A7 and Bb7 within the Fregene scale.

explore the drop two jazz method, learn major and minor scale voicings with drop two, including a C6 chord with added sixth, and practice improvisation.

explore diminished scales and diminished chords, built as minor-third sequences. learn the three symmetric diminished scales, how they apply to dominant seven flat nine chords, and practice improvisation.

Learn two original jazz waltzes in three-quarter time, with improvisation on an F# and C# scale, and anticipate a later piece played straight with chord symbols in the copy.

Explore lesson 23 part b, a three-quarter-time piece with a dissonant melody, plus practical jazz piano practice guidance on open position voicings, two-five-one progressions, diminished scales, and improvisation.