Jazz Piano Lessons: 2 Song Foundations

Course details

Learn essential techniques to enhance your jazz piano skills. In this course—the second in a series focusing on learning how to play jazz piano—learn concepts that can provide you with a solid foundation as a pianist. Grammy-winning keyboardist George Whitty helps you get started with two-handed harmony, and helps to bolster your jazz vocabulary by covering basic—and instantly recognizable—bluesy chord voicings. George also discusses the pentatonic scale, and shows how to play everything in your jazz piano toolbox over the F7 blues.

Learning objectives
Playing with both hands
Basic jazz vocabulary
Practicing pentatonics using approach patterns
Combining bop scales, pentatonics, and approach patterns
Adding guide tones
Building a motif around a combination of notes

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

1. Playing with Both Hands

02 - Introduction to two-handed comping
03 - Two-handed comping - Chord inversions
04 - Two-handed voicings - Part 1
05 - Two-handed voicings - Part 2
06 - Two-handed voicings - Drop the 3rd

2. Basic Jazz Vocabulary

07 - B7 9-5 voicings - Part 1
08 - B7 9-5 voicings - Part 2
09 - Extended B7 9-5 voicings
10 - Practicing timing using the B7 9-5 voicings - Part 1
11 - Practicing timing using the B7 9-5 voicings - Part 2

3. Pentatonic Scales

12 - Essential jazz scales - The pentatonic scale
13 - Practicing pentatonics
14 - Two more pentatonics
15 - Practicing pentatonics using approach patterns
16 - Practicing pentatonics using the F7 blues

4. Putting It All Together - Combining Scales, Pentatonics, and Patterns

17 - Combining bop scales, pentatonics, and approach patterns - Part 1
18 - Combining bop scales, pentatonics, and approach patterns - Part 2

5. Adding More to Your Playing

19 - Adding guide tones
20 - Playing motivically - Part 1
21 - Playing motivically - Part 2
22 - Mixing it all up
23 - Combining everything you've learned so far