Jazz Piano: 4 Tunes & Practice Routines

1h 49mBeginner2017-05-27

Authors

George Whitty

Grammy-winning Keyboardist, Producer, Composer, and Instructor

Course details

Explore songs and practice routines that can help to enhance your jazz piano skills. In this course—the fourth in a series focusing on learning how to play jazz piano—learn new jazz piano techniques and bolster the skills that you already have in your toolkit. Grammy-winning keyboardist George Whitty shows how to play a Miles Davis song—"Tune Up"—that has 2-5-1 progressions in three different keys. As you tackle this piece, George helps you practice pentatonic scales and shows how to play upper structure triads on the classic tune. He also demonstrates how to play "Tune Up" using everything you've learned in previous lessons, as well as how to use your right hand to play over altered dominant chords.

Learning objectives
Practicing pentatonics
Two-handed comping
C7, F7, and Bb major 7 bop scales
Practicing essential jazz scales as a cadence
Working on the 1-6-2-5 chord cycle
Practicing altered dominant scales

Skills covered

Music LessonsAudio and MusicOne-Off

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

1. Tune Up

02 - Tune up
03 - Pentatonics for Tune Up
04 - Practicing the new pentatonics
05 - Two-handed comping using tune up

2. Essential Jazz Scales 5

06 - Essential jazz scales - C7, F7, and Bb major 7 bop scales
07 - Practicing these scales as a cadence

3. Putting It All Together - Tune Up

08 - Tune Up putting it all together, part 1
09 - Tune Up putting it all together, part 2

4. Funk in C

10 - Funk in C

5. Putting It All Together - 2-5-1

11 - The complete I-VI-II-V cycle, part 1
12 - The complete I-VI-II-V cycle, part 2
13 - Putting it all together playing on I-VI-II-V

6. Altered Dominant Scales

14 - Altered dominant scales, part 1
15 - Altered dominant scales, part 2
16 - Altered dominant scales, part 3
17 - Practicing altered dominant scales