Lynda - Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation

Lynda - Jazz Piano: 3 Basics of Improvisation

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.

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Introduction

1. Adding Extensions to Guide Tones

2. 9th Chords

3. The 2-5-1 Progression

4. Essential Jazz Scales: 3

5. Practicing Scales and Playing over the 2-5-1

6. Essential Jazz Scales: 4

7. Melodic Devices

Table of Contents

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