What you'll learn
- Students will be able to play a blues solo in E-flat
- Students will be able to improvise a bass-line in E-flat
- Students will be able to combine a solo with an improvised bass line in E-flat
- Students will know key musical terms related to the blues.
Requirements
- Students may wish to take "Piano Blues Master - Getting Started." For students with no playing background, we recommend you take that course first!
- Students who have some familiarity with the piano may begin at this course, as there is a review of previously learned concepts included.
Description
Now that you've found freedom, it's time to get secure on your feet, as a player AND a teacher!
With easy steps, the Piano Improvisation Series takes you deep into the fundamentals of blues and piano technique. You'll be learning so gradually that you'll be amazed what you can do by the end!
In our "Piano Freedom" course, we introduced students to the power of the black keys. With a simple three-note bass line in the left hand, and the freedom to play any note on the black keys with the right hand, you can play music that sounds authentic and interesting, and which is an expression of your own self and musicality. Instead of playing formulas, you're really improvising, making up music on the spot, and it sounds good!
In "Piano Security" we give you more sophisticated tools to grow your improvisation abilities. You'll learn four new bass lines: The 1-3-5, the 1-#4-5, the 1-3-#4-5 and the 1-2-3-5. The best part is: You can solo over each of these bass lines just like you did over your first bass line, so by learning just a little, your range of sound will increase dramatically!
Once you know five bass lines, you can combine them into original new bass lines. That's right, you're making up bass lines! And when you add a solo on the black keys, you're improvising in two hands at once.
You'll see how incredibly fun it can be to get this kind of mastery in our Piano Security course. Best of all, you'll be set to go even farther in our next set of courses.
Our Teacher-Edition provides extra videos for piano teachers who want to provide powerful improvisation lessons to their students. Whether you know the blues or not, whether you've ever improvised before, these lessons are easy enough to get you going so that you can offer your students a whole new level of instruction.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for beginning pianists who want to be able to play a convincing blues in e-flat at the piano, and who want to be prepared with the information and skill to play the blues in every key. It's also for teachers who want to teach blues improvisation to young and beginning learners.
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 11 Reviews
- 51 Students
- 6 Courses
A Learning Coach, as well as the Producer of the popular YouTube channel TruerMU, Adam Cole is a professional Jazz and Classical pianist who studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He has been featured and interviewed in numerous periodicals and podcasts including Psychology Today and the Paul Leslie Hour.
Adam maintained the Adam Cole Jazz Trio for ten years in Atlanta before becoming a music educator. Adam founded Willow Music and TruerMU to further explore the truth about music. Adam's videos and books center around music education and its relationships to physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Adam's students benefit from his journey to learn to do easily what he originally found challenging: playing the piano, teaching math, reading and writing. Steps are the right size for the learner, and Adam continually supports his students through his website at adamthelearningcoach dot com.