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Jazz Piano: Harmony & Improvisation

Name: Jazz Piano: Harmony & Improvisation
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Duration1h 20m

Modules25

LevelIntermediate

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (1h 20m)

- 01. Introduction
  0:35
- 01. The five types of seventh chords
  3:01
- 02. Horizontal Improvisation and diatonic chords
  Free lesson
  4:59
- 03. One Two Three (performance)
  1:40
- 04. Encircling
  2:27
- 01. Turnarounds
  1:59
- 02. Two-feel bass lines and shells
  2:57
- 03. Leapin' In (performance)
  2:39
- 04. The dominant seventh cycle
  5:21
- 01. Chord voicings for II-V-I
  4:07
- 02. Pa-dee-doh (performance)
  1:43
- 03. The Mixolydian scale
  5:23
- 01. The natural minor scale
  2:32
- 02. Rootless dominant seventh chords
  3:45
- 03. St James Infirmary (performance)
  1:55
- 04. Minor II-V-I voicings
  2:47
- 01. The Dorian mode
  2:32
- 02. Playing in 3-4
  4:15
- 03. G Minor Waltz (performance)
  1:58
- 01. Sing & Play
  3:03
- 01. Three note shapes and shells
  3:39
- 02. Love That Man (performance)
  4:08
- 03. Love That Man - solo analysis
  3:57
- 04. Vertical Improvisation
  6:37
- 05. CHECKPOINT #1 - EAR TRAINING & LISTENING
  2:34

About this course

Tim Richards has been a leading voice in UK jazz piano teaching for over thirty years. This course is part of his graded method, also published by Schott Music as a textbook of the same name. Full bio on Tim's artist page.

This is Chapter 1 of Beginning Jazz Piano Pt 2, picking up where the first volume left off. You'll work through diatonic seventh chords - all seven of them, in major and minor scales - then meet the two-five-one progression and its minor variant. The chapter introduces turnarounds, II-V chord pairs, and a review of the modes of the major scale used in jazz improvisation.

By the end of this course you'll comfortably play and recognise II-V-I in any key, voice each diatonic seventh chord, and improvise over II-V chord pairs using mode-derived scales.

Who it's for

Pianists who completed Beginning Jazz Piano Pt 1
Self-taught players ready for the first jazz cadence
Classical pianists building a real jazz vocabulary

What you'll learn

Play II-V-I progressions in every key, major and minor
Voice all seven diatonic seventh chord types
Improvise over II-V pairs using mode-derived scales

What you'll need

An acoustic, digital or weighted-key piano
Comfort with triads, sevenths and basic blues harmony
A few minutes most days at the keys

Explore the series · Beginning Jazz Piano · Pt 2

Based on Beginning Jazz Piano by Schott Music

01
Jazz Piano: Harmony & Improvisation
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02
Jazz Piano: Accompanying
03
Jazz Piano: Interpreting Lead Sheets

Meet the Guru

Tim Richards

Critically acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Tim Richards is 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. He has produced numerous titles for Schott Music, including the best-selling two-volume Exploring Jazz Piano, Blues, Boogie & Gospel Collection and the acclaimed Improvising Blues Piano. He is also co-author, with John Crawford, of Exploring Latin Piano and Brazilian Piano Collection.

More recently Schott have published Jazz, Latin & Modern Collection (15 pieces for solo piano), comprising Tim Richards originals alongside pieces by Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and the two volume set Beginning Jazz Piano (now a two-part MusicGurus course).

“The real joy of Tim’s music… is that it is both hugely educational but also such great fun to play. Anyone with the slightest interest in learning to play or teach jazz piano should really acquire a set of Tim’s books.” PianoDao

As a performer Tim has been a presence on the UK jazz scene since the 1980s, also playing the blues with UK and US legends such as Otis Grand, Earl Green, Dana Gillespie, Larry Garner, Joe Louis Walker and Mojo Buford. 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), and toured all over Europe with line-ups ranging from duo to nine-piece. His latest recording, the album ‘Telegraph Hill’ by the six-piece Hextet, was described in The Observer as "A true joy from beginning to end".

More info can be found on his website www.timrichards.ndo.co.uk

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Published with

Schott Music

Founded by Bernhard Schott in Mainz in 1770, Schott Music is one of Europe's oldest and largest music publishers, with a catalogue of more than 30,000 titles. Over its 250-year history Schott has issued first editions of Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner, championed 20th-century voices from Hindemith and Schoenberg to Ligeti and Henze, and today publishes sheet music, books and educational materials from offices in Mainz, London, New York, Tokyo and beyond.

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