No Bull Guide To Jazz Piano™ (Advanced)

1 Lesson #1 - Guide Tones and Blues Chords Learn how to form and play guide tones over all the chords in the blues.
Released: April 1, 2020 • Duration: 00:15:42
2 Lesson #2 - Guide Tones with Added 9th Rootless Chords Learn how to add the 9th to our guide tones for fuller-sounding chords.
Released: April 2, 2020 • Duration: 00:13:24
3 Lesson #3 - Simplified Rootless Jazz Chords Learn how to create simplified rootless chord voicings by adding tensions to our guide tones.
Released: April 3, 2020 • Duration: 00:09:26
4 *PRACTICE SESSION* Guide Tones & Rootless Chords In this lesson you'll learn: how to pick out the guide tones for any chord, how to create basic rootless voicings and which tensions to add.
Released: March 27, 2020 • Duration: 01:11:56
5 Lesson #4 - Jazz Comping Made Easy In this lesson you'll learn 2-hand comping techniques using rootless chords and bell tones.
Released: April 5, 2020 • Duration: 00:12:04
6 Lesson #5 - Minor Pentatonic and Blues Scales The minor pentatonic and blues scales are really important scales to start with when learning improvisation.
Released: April 5, 2020 • Duration: 00:15:24
7 Lesson #6 - How To Create Jazz Licks In this lesson, we will learn how to create licks using the scales we learned in lesson #5.
Released: April 6, 2020 • Duration: 00:13:45
8 Lesson #7 - Improvising Over The Blues Part 1 In this lesson, we will take the licks we learned in lesson 6 and apply them to the blues form.
Released: April 7, 2020 • Duration: 00:15:33
9 Lesson #8 - Improvising Over The Blues Part 2 In this lesson, we will take the licks we learned in lesson 6 and apply them to the blues form.
Released: April 10, 2020 • Duration: 00:11:04
10 Lesson #9 - Blues Fills and Turns Part 1 Turns are a great way to create embellishment in your improvisation. Plus they sound really cool. This lesson will show you how to create three different blues/jazz turns.
Released: April 10, 2020 • Duration: 00:14:47
11 Lesson #10 - Blues Fills and Turns Part 2 In this lesson you'll learn to play a blues head that uses a lot of turns.
Released: April 10, 2020 • Duration: 00:15:35
12 Lesson #11 - Blues Fills and Turns Part 3 In this lesson you'll learn to play the 2nd part of the blues head that uses a lot of turns.
Released: April 11, 2020 • Duration: 00:11:40
13 Lesson #12 - Blues Improvisation Guide Tones In this lesson you'll learn how to "shell out" your improvisation using guide tones. This is the first step to creating longer, more interesting bebop and jazz improv lines.
Released: April 15, 2020 • Duration: 00:14:39
14 Lesson #13 - Neighbor Tones & Enclosures Enclosures and neighbor tones are what allow you to weave through a chord progression with your improvisation. You'll learn 8 enclosure patterns and how to practice them.
Released: April 15, 2020 • Duration: 00:21:39
15 Lesson #14 - How To Use Enclosures for Improv Has Free Chapters In this lesson we will create a solo using enclosures.
Released: April 15, 2020 • Duration: 00:16:39
16 Lesson #15 - Blues Bebop Improvisation In this lesson we will finish our solo using bebop principles.
Released: April 15, 2020 • Duration: 00:19:49
17 Lesson #16 - Latin Jazz / Swing Blues In this lesson we will learn how to move from latin back to a swing feel to change styles in our blues playing.
Released: April 15, 2020 • Duration: 00:18:03
18 Lesson #17 - How To Play Jazz & Blues Basslines In this lesson we will learn how to play a blues bassline with rootless chords in the right hand.
Released: April 17, 2020 • Duration: 00:17:29
19 Lesson #18 - Jazz Piano Quartal Comping Quartal comping is a great way to play full, lush chords in both hands that are a great accompaniment.
Released: April 17, 2020 • Duration: 00:13:57
20 Lesson #19 - Improvise Using Chord Cells Part 1 In this lesson you'll learn how to use 4-note chord cells for improvisation over the blues. This is part 1.
Released: April 17, 2020 • Duration: 00:15:51
21 Lesson #20 - Improvise Using Chord Cells Part 2 In this lesson you'll learn how to use 4-note chord cells for improvisation over the blues. This is part 2.
Released: April 21, 2020 • Duration: 00:11:44
22 Lesson #21 - Altered And Diminished Scales for Improvisation In this lesson you'll learn how to use your altered and diminished scales for improvisation over the blues.
Released: April 25, 2020 • Duration: 00:13:18
23 Lesson #22 - Altered and Diminished Scale Cells Learn how to use cells to easily incorporate altered and diminished scales into your improvisation.
Released: April 25, 2020 • Duration: 00:12:50
24 Lesson #23 - Mixolydian and Diminished Jazz Etude In this etude (a jazz composition which is used as an exercise) you'll learn how to use your mixolydian and diminished scales over the blues progression.
Released: April 25, 2020 • Duration: 00:19:08
25 Lesson #24 - Three Advanced Blues Intros In this lesson you'll learn three advanced introductions you can use for your blues improvisations.
Released: April 25, 2020 • Duration: 00:13:27
26 Lesson #25 - Three Advanced Blues Endings In this lesson you'll learn three advanced endings you can use for your blues improvisations.
Released: April 25, 2020 • Duration: 00:11:27
27 Lesson #26 - Blues Turnaround Progressions In this lesson you'll learn different turnarounds that you can use to "tag" and end your song or go back to the beginning of the form.
Released: April 25, 2020 • Duration: 00:14:32
28 Lesson #27 - Upper Structure Chord Voicings Part 1 In this lesson you'll learn how to use upper structures in your chords to create rich sounding turnarounds!
Released: May 1, 2020 • Duration: 00:14:26
29 Lesson #28 - Upper Structure Chord Voicings Part 2 Part 2 of our lesson where you'll learn how to use upper structures in your chords to create rich sounding turnarounds!
Released: May 1, 2020 • Duration: 00:11:06
30 Lesson #29 - 5 Ideas to Improve Your Jazz Solos In this lesson I'll share 5 ideas that will help you create better jazz and blues solos.
Released: May 1, 2020 • Duration: 00:20:28
Total Course Duration = 08:20:52

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No Bull Guide To Jazz Piano™ (Advanced)

In this advanced course, you'll take your jazz playing up a level by learning how to form rootless chords, comp and improvise over a more complicated blues progression. Course too difficult? Check out my beginner course.

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