
Adopt a simple step-by-step approach to studying and practicing giant steps, turning the difficult, fast tune into subconscious mastery so pianists can freely improvise.
Develop your improvisation by exploring pentatonics, a five-note major-scale subset, and pre-hearing tones with a drone. Coordinate left and right hands to hear sound structures and melody instead of chords.
Develop fluent pentatonic fingering across keys and modes, using the thumb and arm technique to improvise with rhythmic figures, then analyze melody, harmony, and rhythm parameters.
Develop intelligent pentatonic improvisation across all keys and modes, using rhythmic cues and deliberate tensions to craft a musical story that fits chord progressions and tunes.
Explore pentatonics to start improvising on piano, enjoy an easy entry to improvisation, and practice in all keys, with recommendations to explore advanced jazz uses and related books.
Pentatonic is a great way to develop beginning improvisation skills on the piano. You can develop this easily in a step-by-step method. This uses the language center of the brain. The subconscious does the work. You enjoy the improvisation. This course gives specific exercises to develop your improv skills. Every "step" should be practiced over-and-over until it is completely and effortlessly in the subconscious.
Pentatonics is a five note scale, from the major scale, without the 4th and 7th degrees. The 4th and 7th degrees are a "tritone". The tritone is the basis of the dominant to tonic progression. The V7 to I progression is the strongest resolution in music. The problem is that the pentatonics don't "want" to resolve. This creates a problem for the improviser.
Many improvisers use pentatonics to play fast. The many issue is how to use pentatonics in a musical and meaningful way. You should learn to play pentatonics slowly and melodically. It's not easy, but it is very important.
This course teaches in an organize step-by-step approach. Each step is learned completely and automatically. This is a language approach to learning music. When you use your language(s), you do not think of the language itself. Rather, you think of ideas, concepts and emotions.
Then the subconscious plays the music. Music is fun.