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.

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.

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.

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.

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.