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- About
- Jazz Piano Lessons
- The Basics
- Jazz Chords
- Introduction to Jazz
- Chord Tensions (Extensions & Alterations)
- Available Tensions
- Shell Chords & Omitting Notes
- Chord Substitution
- Passing Chords & Approach Chords
- Secondary Chords & Tonicization
- Modal Interchange & Borrowed Chords
- Suspended Chords
- Phrygian Chords
- Slash Chords
- Harmonic Rhythm
- Polychords
- Modulation
- Jazz Scales
- The Chord-Scale System – How Chords and Scales are Related
- Why You Can Use Multiple Scales Over the Same Chord
- Melodic Minor Modes and Altered Scale
- Bebop Scales
- Wholetone Scale
- Diminished Scale & Double Diminished Chord
- Pentatonic Scale
- Augmented Scale
- Minor Scales
- Selecting Scales for Improvisation
- Tritone Substitution & Scales
- How Many Scales are There?
- Chromaticism and Synthetic Scales
- Jazz Improvisation
- Jazz Improvisation – Creating and Resolving Tension
- Playing Inside
- Guide Tones
- Embellishing the Melody
- Avoid Notes
- Dissonant Intervals
- Passing Notes and Target Notes
- Side-Slipping & Bitonality
- Cycled Patterns
- Symmetrical Scales
- Clichés & Quoting
- Displacing the Melody
- Chord Mapping & Common Scales
- Approaches to Improvisation
- Sheets of Sound Explained (John Coltrane)
- Bar-Line Shift and Superimposition
- Making Mistakes
- How To Develop Your Improvisation From Beginner To Advanced
- ii-V7-I Licks and Jazz Improvisation Exercises
- Analysing a Jazz Solo – Straight, No Chaser (Miles Davis)
- Chordal Improvisation
- Top 3 Improvisation Exercises to Improve Your Soloing
- Improvisation Stages & Thought Process
- Jazz Rhythm & Phrasing
- Octave Displacement & Pivot Arpeggios
- Vertical Improvisation
- Extended Arpeggios and Triad Pairs
- Jazz Improvisation Tips
- Jazz Chord Voicings
- Rootless Chord Voicings
- Thelonious Monk Chord Voicings
- Bud Powell Chord Voicings
- Three Note Voicings
- Open Chord Voicings (Spread Voicings)
- So What Chord
- Kenny Barron Minor Chord Voicing
- Herbie Hancock Minor Chord Voicing
- Quartal Chord Voicings
- Upper Structures
- Four Way Close, Locked Hands and Drop Two Voicings
- Advanced Locked Hands
- Combining Chord Voicings
- Generic Chord Voicing Rules
- Jazz Piano Comping – How to Comp
- Walking Bass-lines
- Jazz Piano Minimum Requirements
- Preparing for a Jam Session
- Tone Clusters & Secundal Harmony
- How to Play Jazz Piano – Beginner to Advanced
- How to Comp for a Vocalist / Singer
- Chord Voicings & When to Use Them
- Stride Piano
- Jazz Chord Progressions
- Common Jazz Chord Progressions
- Circle of Fifths and the Circle Progression
- Minor II-V-I
- Rhythm Changes Explained
- Coltrane Changes Explained
- Harmonic Functionality
- Bird Changes Explained
- Line Clichés
- Constant Structures
- Polytonality & Polymodality
- How to Use a Lead Sheet (Fake Book)
- Contrafacts
- Voice Leading
- How to Analyse a Chord Progression (Harmonic Analysis)
- Contiguous II-V’s
- Disguised Chords
- Turnarounds & the Tadd Dameron Turnaround
- Jazz Reharmonization
- How to turn any Song into a Jazz Song
- How to Reharmonize a Song – Reharmonization
- Changing the Meter
- Reharmonizing a Tonal Jazz Song into a Modal Jazz Song
- Composition and Melodic Development
- II-V Substitution
- Gospel-Jazz Piano Techniques and Reharmonization
- Reharmonization into Different Genres
- Playing in Free Time & Creating Intros
- Modern Jazz Theory
- Jazz Theory Overview – How to Play Jazz
- Tonal Harmony vs Modal Harmony
- Lydian Chromatic Concept
- Modal Jazz Improvisation & Harmony
- Pandiatonicism
- Free Jazz & Atonality Explained
- Post-bop Explained
- Circular Songs
- Suppressing the Chord Progression (Head)
- Time, No Changes
- Pedal Point Harmony
- Atonal Harmony
- Harmonic / Musical Systems
- A Brief Summary of Modern Jazz
- Balance
- Playing From Nothing
- Jazz Genres
- Early Jazz vs Modern Jazz Piano
- Blues Piano & Blues Harmony
- Swing Music Explained
- Bebop Explained
- Cool Jazz Explained
- Hard Bop (& Soul Jazz) Explained
- Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz Explained
- How to Play Bossa Nova (Afro-Brazilian Jazz)
- Jazz-Rock Fusion Explained
- Smooth Jazz & Crossover Jazz
- Gospel-Jazz Explained
- How to Play Jazz Blues
- How to Play Funk Piano
- How to Listen to Jazz
- Other Stuff
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