Beginning Jazz Piano Part 2 - Harmony, Improvisation, Accompanying & Reading from Lead Sheets
with Tim Richards
Intermediate
67 lessons (3h 7m)
Sheet music included
Backing tracks included
Mobile, Tablet + Desktop
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Course Trailer
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Sample Lesson
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- CHAPTER 1: HARMONY & IMPROVISATION
- Introduction
- Diatonic seventh chords
- The five types of seventh chords
- Horizontal Improvisation and diatonic chords
- One Two Three (performance)
- Encircling
- Turnarounds
- Turnarounds
- Two-feel bass lines and shells
- Leapin' In (performance)
- The dominant seventh cycle
- II-V-I
- Chord voicings for II-V-I
- Pa-dee-doh (performance)
- The Mixolydian scale
- Minor II-V-I
- The natural minor scale
- Rootless dominant seventh chords
- St James Infirmary (performance)
- Minor II-V-I voicings
- II-V chord pairs
- The Dorian mode
- Playing in 3-4
- G Minor Waltz (performance)
- Modes review
- Sing & Play
- Improvising over II-V chords
- Three note shapes and shells
- Love That Man (performance)
- Love That Man - solo analysis
- Vertical Improvisation
- CHECKPOINT #1 - EAR TRAINING & LISTENING
- CHAPTER 2: ACCOMPANYING
- Accompanying - introduction
- Swing comping – All of Me
- Playing the roots
- Two-feel bass line
- Two-feel bass line (performance)
- Guide tones
- Two-feel bass with guide tones (performance)
- Adding right-hand chords
- Two-feel bass with chords (performance)
- Walking bass lines
- Walking bass line (performance)
- Chordal rhythms
- Rootless voicings
- Walking bass line with rootless chords (performance)
- Blues comping – Blues in F
- Tritones
- Blues comping with two-feel bass (performance)
- Three-note shapes
- Blues comping with walking bass (performance)
- Funky comping – Blue Funk
- Ninth chords
- Blue Funk (performance)
- 12/8 comping – Gospel Groove
- Vamps and intros
- Playing in 12-8
- Gospel Groove (performance)
- Diminished seventh chords
- Comping practice routines
- Latin comping – One Note Samba
- Latin bass lines
- Bossa bass line (performance)
- Latin chordal rhythms
- Bossa bass with chords (performance)
- CHECKPOINT #2 - ICONIC VAMPS
- CHAPTER 3: INTERPRETING LEAD SHEETS
- Introduction
- Thickening the melody
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- When The Saints Go Marching In (performance)
- Lead sheet protocol
- Indiana - lead sheet
- Indiana with syncopated melody (performance)
- Indiana - adding a bass line
- Indiana - with shells in left hand
- Four-part and five-part harmony
- Indiana with two-handed voicings (performance)
- Lead sheet choices
- Indiana with left-hand chords (performance)
- CHECKPOINT #3 - Twelve point programme
- CONCLUSION
- Conclusion
Lesson plan (3h 7m)
This second online course of jazz piano lessons with author Tim Richards will take you up to Intermediate level, with a wider range of chord types and sequences such as AABA and 32-bar song forms.
As well as improvisation techniques, you’ll learn how to accompany other musicians (or yourself if you’re a singer) in swing, latin, blues, funk and gospel styles, using tunes such as ‘All of Me’ and ‘One-Note Samba’ as examples.
The last section gives you a range of methods for interpreting lead sheets – an essential skill for any jazz pianist.
As with part 1, the course also includes:
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BACKING TRACKS with bass and drums only, so you can practise easily by yourself
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Interactive SHEET MUSIC that scrolls video and audio and can be slowed down and looped
Tim composed all the pieces in this course except where otherwise indicated and they have all been taken from Tim's best-selling book 'Beginning Jazz Piano 2' that has helped tens of thousands of pianists. The book is not required to take these online jazz piano lessons but contains additional exercises and material for those wishing to go into even more depth.
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Pianist and composer Tim Richards has been a presence on the UK jazz scene since the 1980s and as a bandleader has toured all over Europe with line-ups ranging from duo to nine-piece. He has released over a dozen albums as a leader, featuring many of London’s best jazz musicians including Pete King, Gilad Atzmon, Tony Kofi, Jason Yarde, Seb Rochford, Ed Jones, Dick Pearce and many others. He is also one of Britain’s most experienced jazz educators, teaching piano privately for over 30 years, as well as at Morley College, Goldsmiths College, the University of Surrey, Premises Studios and other venues in the UK and abroad. More info can be found on his website www.timrichards.ndo.co.uk
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