Jazz Piano for Beginners - Improvise Like a Pro

In this course we hack piano improvisation to get you up and running from 0 piano experience to making up melodies on the spot and impressing your friends!

My FREE Skillshare Bonus Resources
As I mentioned in the course, I’ve now made a bunch of free resources for all of my Skillshare classes, exclusively for my Skillshare students. They’re packed with additional course-related content for every class, and will help you refresh what you’ve learnt, as well as explore some of the other classes you haven’t taken yet. Check it out here.

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Improvisation is seen as a freakish talent that requires years of experience, but Ali and I are going to take you from complete beginner to jazz pro in a series of bitesize lessons. What’s even better is that you guys can learn alongside Ali and watch as I give him tips and tricks and exercises along the way to make huge improvements in a super short time span! The course consists of 5 main sections

1. Notes of the piano    

The bare basics → Essential for everything else covered in the course

2. 3 scales

• Major Pentatonic
• Minor pentatonic
• Blues Scale    

These are what your right hand will be playing

3. 3 chords progressions

• 251(1)
• The pinky drop
• Just the two of us

These are what you left hand will be playing, it provides the foundation and substance to the right hand scales.

4. Examples of how to play hands together.

5. Finger strengthening exercises

Two finger strengthening exercises to build up muscle memory and allow you to play more fluidly.

“Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone – beginners, children, and non-musicians.” – Derek Bailey

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Who am I?

My name is Ali - I'm a doctor working in the UK, and on the side I make YouTube videos about medicine, tech and productivity. Productivity is probably the issue I get asked most often about on my YouTube channel and across social media. Through reading books, blog posts, articles as well as experimenting with numerous techniques myself over the years, I feel that I've developed a bit of knowledge about productivity and that's why I've decided to put together this extensive series of Skillshare classes to share my own knowledge in the realm of productivity and hopefully help us all work towards living happier, healthier and more productive lives.

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Other Useful Links:

John's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/kamelmusic

John's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnkamelmusic/

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My weekly podcast - https://www.notoverthinking.com
Weekly email newsletter - https://email.aliabdaal.com
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Camera Gear - https://kit.co/AliAbdaal
Keyboard - Wireless Coral mechanical keyboard (Cherry Blue) - https://iqunix.store/ali
Favourite iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike - https://paperlike.com/ali

 

• Welcome to the Class
• Class Project
• The Basics
• The Major Pentatonic Scale
• The First Chord Progression
• The 2-5-1 Chord Progression
• Exclusive Bonus Resources
• The Minor Pentatonic Scale
• The Pinky Drop
• Bringing It Together
• The Blues Scale
• The "Just the Two of Us" Progression
• Hands Together
• John's Demo
• The Principles of Improvisation
• Learning the Karate Chop
• Learning the Lamb Chop
• Finger Strengthening Exercises
• Thanks for watching