Beginning Jazz Piano, Part 2 - Harmony, Improvisation, Accompanying & Reading from Lead Sheets

Step past the basics and start playing like a jazz pianist - with harmony, left-hand control, and real-world lead sheet skills that sound musical fast. Beginning Jazz Piano Part 2 by Tim Richards focuses on the core language of jazz piano: four-note seventh chords, key-based progressions, and practical improvisation ideas you can hear and use.

You’ll work through three big areas:

• Harmony and improvisation: diatonic seventh chords, turnarounds, two-feel concepts, and clear approaches to improvising that connect scales and chord tones.
• Accompaniment skills: build from simple bass lines into two-feel and walking bass, add guide tones, explore rootless voicings, and lock into styles like blues, funk, gospel (12/8), and bossa.
• Reading from lead sheets: learn a step-by-step lead sheet protocol, thicken melodies, choose effective left-hand options (including stride-style ideas), and upgrade your voicings with confidence.

Every piece is supported with audio so you can practice in context: complete tracks include bass-line support and drums, and solo sections demonstrate improvising. You also get Replay interactive sheet music, letting you play along with backing tracks, slow down or speed up, and loop tricky passages until they click.

Start now - press play and learn, then loop the spot that needs work and make it feel great.

Contents

• Contents
• Chapter 1: HARMONY AND IMPROVISATION
• Chapter 2: ACCOMPANIMENT SKILLS
• Chapter 3: READING FROM LEAD SHEETS
• Appendix
• Replay sheet music
• One Two Three
• Leapin' In
• Pa-dee-doh
• St James Infirmary (Trad.)
• G Minor Waltz
• Sing & Play #4 - Modes Review
• Love That Man
• Swing Comping - Two-feel Bass Line
• Two-feel Bass with Guide Tones
• Two-feel Bass with Chords
• Walking Bass Line
• Walking Bass with Rootless Chords
• Blues Comping - Blues in F with Two-feel Bass
• Blues in F with Walking Bass
• Funky Comping - Blue Funk
• Blue Funk (with melody & solo)
• 12/8 Comping - Gospel Groove
• Latin Comping - Bossa Bass Line
• Bossa Bass with Chords
• When the Saints Go Marching in (Trad.)
• Indiana (J Hanley): Lead Sheet Protocol
• Indiana (with added syncopation)
• Indiana (with two-handed voicings)
• Indiana (with left-hand chords)