Book 6 - Jazz Piano Made Easy

CONTENTS

Note Finder

Learn Jazz piano - lets start with some Jazzy Blues.

C-easy Blues - 3 simple bluesy chords left hand
The magic Blues scale - keyboard diagram - see the 'shapes'
Using the Blues Scale - the Do It Yourself Blues
C-easy Blues 'riffs' - lots of cool riffs
12 bar blues (Thelonious Monk / Cruella De Ville style Blues)

Learn Jazz piano - Now it's time to jazz things up!

C Major Jazz Piano
Jazz Piano Standards & Showtunes made easy
The C Family Seventh chords

Easy jazz piano voicings for showtunes

(spreading the notes of the chords out to make nicer sounds)
Voicing a classic chord progression - sounds fantastic for so many songs!
Using the notes of the chord voicings to create rhythmic patterns

Frere Jaques Jazz piano - just TWO chords left hand

part 1 - Classical style - really easy
part 2 - Jazzed up left hand - the 'snap-hold' rhythm
part 3 - Improvising on the melody line
Seven essential techniques to help you improvise a melody

Four note Jazz piano chord Inversions

(Different ways to play the same chord)

The Caterpillar Jazz Walk

(your left hand chord changes move like a caterpillar)
This is so easy but sounds fantastic - you will find this progression in thousands of Jazz piano tunes
Caterpillar Jazz Talk - jazz piano improvisation over the Caterpillar Jazz Walk
Ideas for improvising Jazz piano - 9 essential patterns
Improvizing Jazz piano. Learn from Beethoven / Predictability and Uncertainty / The language of Jazz piano improvisation
Putting it all together - Jingle Bells Jazz

Aminor Caterpillar chord progression

Used for songs like Fly Me To The Moon and Autumn Leaves

Another fun and easy progression to play along with

Used for songs like Stormy Weather, Blue Moon, You Make Me Feel So Young
Striding the chords - the above progression in a 'stride piano' style

Jazz piano improvisation

Add some Blues to your Jazz
Using the Blues Scale over a Jazzy Chord progression

D minor Jazz - very easy but very effective - in the style of 'Moondance'

The left hand chords (keyboard diagrams)
D minor progression for improvising
The right hand groove - perfecting the Jazz 'swing' rhythm
D minor seven scale (all white keys and they sound great)
D Blues scale - adds more 'colour' to your improvisations - build patterns one note at a time
D minor Jazz - Chordal Improvisation
D minor Jazz - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (great tune to improvise on)
Two handed 'comping' - A technique where you just play chords to accompany someone else
Various comping rhythms
D minor Jazz - A Latin Twist
Jazz Stride in D minor

Modern Voicings - Quartal Harmony

Fantastic 3 note left hand chords that are really easy and give a cool modern sound
Freestyle improvisation over the Quartal Voicings

Instant Bill Evans

Chordal Fragments

Descending Bass Lines

Used for My Funny Valentine, Masquerade and Michelle
Great to improvise with

Four note flourishes

how to easily do great runs up the piano using repeated seventh chords
Four note flourish using extended chords

Jazz piano stride style using extended chords

Jazzin' The Blues in G
Three great chord voicings for the key of G
G blues scale - lots of riffs and patterns

Jazzin' The Blues

Traditional 12 Bar Jazz/Blues in F
Full practice tune
Traditional Jazz/Blues progressions in various keys

A Collection of cool practice progressions

Jazz piano progression in C major (Keyboard diagram and musical notation)
12 Bar Jazz/Blues in C minor
12 Bar Jazz/Blues in G
12 Bar Jazz/Blues in F

Ideas for further practice

A great song list to check out

3 ways to practice your 'seventh' jazz piano chords

1. Four types of sevenths built on the same root note
2. ONE seventh TYPE at a time through all 12 keys
3. The II - V - I progression in all 12 keys

EVERY seventh jazz piano chord in keyboard diagrams

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