Overview
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Learn how to play jazz piano. Discover how to add another note to your left-handed voicings and tackle the 2-5-1 progression—one of the most important progressions in jazz.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Adding your first extension to guide tones
- “Falling Grace”
- Integrating 9th chords
- Practicing 9th chords
- One of the most important progressions: 2-5-1
- Essential jazz scales: The E minor bop scale
- Essential jazz scales: The D major 7 bop scale
- Sneak previews: Expanding your melodic horizons
- Practicing the new bop scales: Using approach patterns
- Practicing over your first 2-5-1
- Offsetting your approach patterns
- Essential jazz scales: D minor, G7, and C major bop scales
- Practicing D minor, G7, C major bop scales
- Arpeggiated triads as a melodic device
- Using all the tools on extended 2-5-1, part 1
- Using all the tools on extended 2-5-1, part 2
