Jazz Blues and Rhythm Changes

Name: Jazz Blues and Rhythm Changes
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Duration2h 31m

Modules8

LevelIntermediate

LanguageEnglish

Lesson Plan (2h 31m)

About this course

Jazz blues and Rhythm Changes are the two forms you'll be called on to play more than any others, and pianist Peter Martin - of whom Wynton Marsalis praises a "deep kind of penetrating insight into music" - builds your command of both. You'll work a 12-bar jazz blues through tunes like Thelonious Monk's Blue Monk and Fun with F Blues, then dig into Wynton Kelly's celebrated solo on Miles Davis's Freddie Freeloader bar by bar across three lessons.

From there Peter shows you how to stay oriented inside Rhythm Changes in B flat, takes the blues somewhere unexpected with a 3/4 feel, and opens up minor blues concepts so you hear exactly how they differ from the standard form. By the end you'll be soloing over both forms with ideas that are genuinely your own.

Who it's for

Intermediate pianists comfortable with basic jazz voicings
Returning players reconnecting with the blues form
Self-taught jazz pianists wanting deeper harmonic fluency

What you'll learn

Solo confidently over a standard 12-bar jazz blues
Navigate Rhythm Changes in Bb without getting lost
Borrow and adapt ideas from Wynton Kelly's vocabulary

What you'll need

An acoustic piano or weighted keyboard
Comfort reading lead sheets and basic chord symbols
A few minutes most days at the keys

Meet the Guru

Peter Martin

Peter Martin is an acclaimed jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator. His touring career has taken him to six continents numerous times. In January 2011 Peter performed with a select group of jazz artists at the White House for a State Dinner hosted by President Obama, and he returned to perform for the Governor’s Dinner in February 2012 for the first family and other guests.
Peter performed on and arranged Dianne Reeves' Grammy winning release A Little Moonlight. He also appeared in George Clooney's 2005 film Good Night and Good Luck as well as being the featured pianist and an arranger on the Grammy winning soundtrack. Peter has performed, toured and recorded with Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, Betty Carter, Christian McBride and Joshua Redman as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.

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Open Studio Jazz

Open Studio is a leading online jazz education platform, offering 2,500+ lessons from Grammy-winning artists to a worldwide community of more than 100,000 musicians.

Founded in 2015 in St. Louis by jazz pianist Peter Martin and Brian Fielding, Open Studio combines structured courses with weekly live mentor sessions and "The Hang" community space, where players connect and learn together.