Jazz Piano: 4 Tunes & Practice Routines

Learn how to play jazz piano. Discover new jazz piano techniques and bolster the skills that you already have in your toolkit.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. "Tune Up"

• "Tune up"
• Pentatonics for “Tune Up”
• Practicing the new pentatonics
• Two-handed comping using tune up

2. Essential Jazz Scales 5

• Essential jazz scales: C7, F7, and Bb major 7 bop scales
• Practicing these scales as a cadence

3. Putting It All Together: "Tune Up"

• “Tune Up” – putting it all together, part 1
• “Tune Up” – putting it all together, part 2

4. ”Funk in C”

• “Funk in C”

5. Putting It All Together: 2-5-1

• The complete I-VI-II-V cycle, part 1
• The complete I-VI-II-V cycle, part 2
• Putting it all together – playing on I-VI-II-V

6. Altered Dominant Scales

• Altered dominant scales, part 1
• Altered dominant scales, part 2
• Altered dominant scales, part 3
• Practicing altered dominant scales