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Beginning Jazz Piano: Two-Chord Vamps

Name: Beginning Jazz Piano: Two-Chord Vamps
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Duration46m

Modules20

LevelBeginner

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (0h 46m)

- 01. Types of two-chord vamp
  Free lesson
  4:05
- 02. Straight Eight (performance)
  0:58
- 03. The blue third
  1:23
- 04. Playing left-hand chords off the beat
  2:32
- 05. Swing Thing (performance)
  0:56
- 01. Dominant seventh inversions
  2:15
- 02. Five to One Shuffle (performance)
  1:35
- 01. The minor chord on II
  2:45
- 02. Open triads
  1:36
- 03. Eau de Cologne (performance)
  2:39
- 04. Scale patterns
  3:06
- 01. Major Seventh Inversions
  1:52
- 02. The Sus-4 chord
  2:10
- 03. Peace for Bill (performance)
  2:02
- 01. Melodic minor and Dorian scales
  2:20
- 02. Soulful Step (performance)
  1:37
- 01. Four-note groups
  2:16
- 02. Minor seventh inversions
  2:50
- 03. Sing & Play #2
  4:28
- 04. CHECKPOINT: Seventh chords and Listening
  3:02

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 2 of Beginning Jazz Piano. After the single-chord vocabulary of Chapter 1, this course adds the second chord: every common two-chord alternation in major and minor, plus sus4 voicings and the minor pentatonic scale. Two-chord vamps are how most jazz, pop and Latin music actually works - they're the engine of grooves from Cantaloupe Island to Oye Como Va.

By the end you'll comfortably comp and improvise over I-IV, I-V and I-II vamps in any key, and you'll have the minor pentatonic in your hands and ears. Chapter 3 (The Three-Chord Trick) adds the dominant and completes the basic toolkit.

Who it's for

Pianists who completed Chapter 1 or know basic triads
Self-taught players ready to put two chords together
Classical pianists who want the foundations of jazz harmony

What you'll learn

Comp through I-IV, I-V and I-II two-chord vamps
Apply sus4 and major-seventh voicings as colour tones
Improvise solos with the minor pentatonic scale

What you'll need

An acoustic, digital or weighted-key piano
Comfort with major and minor triads in three inversions
A few minutes most days at the keys

Explore the series · Beginning Jazz Piano · Pt 1

Based on Beginning Jazz Piano by Schott Music

01
Beginning Jazz Piano: Triads & Pentatonics
02
Beginning Jazz Piano: Two-Chord Vamps
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03
Beginning Jazz Piano: The Three-Chord Trick

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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