Lynda - Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation

Size: 1.10 GB | Duration: 1h 50m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 1280x720 30fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 2ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Beginner | Language: English

Explore techniques that can help to enhance your improvisational jazz piano skills. In this course—the third in a series focusing on learning how to play jazz piano—learn concepts than can increase the sophistication of your playing. Grammy-winning keyboardist George Whitty helps you add another note to your left-handed voicings, and tackle the 2-5-1 progression—one of the most important progressions in jazz. He also helps you broaden your melodic horizons by showing how to arpeggiate triads over the 2-5-1 chords.

Topics include:

* Adding extensions to guide tones

* Integrating 9th chords

* The 2-5-1 progression

* Practicing essential jazz scales

* The E minor bop scale

* The D major 7 bop scale

* Arpeggiated triads as a melodic device