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Exploring Jazz Piano: Minor Triads

Name: Exploring Jazz Piano: Minor Triads
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Duration1h 23m

Modules23

LevelIntermediate

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (1h 23m)

- 01. Minor triad shapes and inversions
  Free lesson
  5:48
- 02. The minor triad as a II chord
  2:40
- 03. MANNENBERG Performance
  1:52
- 04. Pentatonic scale improvisation techniques
  3:38
- 01. Two-feel bass lines
  5:07
- 02. TAKE THE ‘A’ TRAIN Performance
  1:00
- 03. Thickening the melody
  4:59
- 04. Broken chords in triplets
  4:53
- 05. ‘A’ TRAIN IMPROVISATION Performance
  0:58
- 06. Walking bass lines
  4:22
- 01. Playing off the beat
  3:06
- 02. Minor harmony
  3:55
- 03. MONTUNO FOR MONTY Performance
  2:47
- 04. Natural minor and harmonic minor scales
  6:36
- 05. NATURAL MINOR WORKOUT Performance
  3:42
- 06. Playing two-bar phrases
  3:56
- 01. Formation and fingering
  2:00
- 02. Open triads
  6:59
- 03. OPEN TRIAD WORKOUT (straight) Performance
  1:59
- 04. OPEN TRIAD WORKOUT (swing) Performance
  1:44
- 01. Playing the 3rd or 5th on the bottom
  5:21
- 02. SONG FOR SALLY Performance
  2:37
- 01. Triad review – Augmented and Diminished triads + Triad Quiz
  3:10

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 Exploring Jazz Piano. After the major triad work in Chapter 1, this course explores the minor side: minor triads located inside the major scale, the AABA song form that anchors most standards, the family of minor scales (natural, harmonic, melodic), the minor pentatonic, and slash chords as a notation shortcut.

By the end you'll feel at home in minor harmony, recognise the AABA shape inside any standard, and use the minor pentatonic plus blue notes for idiomatic minor solos. Chapter 3 (Seventh Chords) is the natural next step.

Who it's for

Pianists who completed Chapter 1 of Exploring Jazz Piano
Self-taught players ready to work in minor keys
Returning players who want a real handle on the AABA form

What you'll learn

Locate and use minor triads inside any major scale
Recognise the AABA form inside dozens of standards
Improvise idiomatically in minor keys with the minor pentatonic

What you'll need

A piano or weighted-key keyboard
Comfort with major triads, scales and the cycle of fifths
A few minutes most days at the keys

Explore the series · Exploring Jazz Piano · Pt 1

Based on Exploring Jazz Piano by Schott Music

01
Exploring Jazz Piano: Major Triads
02
Exploring Jazz Piano: Minor Triads
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03
Exploring Jazz Piano: Seventh Chords

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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