Level Up in Piano: Music Composition & Improvisation

Express your creative voice with musical improvisation!

Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer Elijah Fox fell in love with piano when he was a child. Now a successful professional musician with more than eighteen years of experience, he’s here to show you how to do the same! In this intermediate class, you’ll go beyond the basics to discover the beauty of musical improvisation, and ultimately find freedom through harmony.

Hands-on lessons explore:

• How to create a melody on the spot
• Why certain scales work best with specific chords
• How to improvise with confidence, even when you’re just starting out 

As a master of musical improv himself, Elijah demystifies this complex concept and lays out a roadmap for any aspiring musician who wants to make up their own melodies. By understanding a few fundamentals, you’ll unlock infinite possibilities!

This class is geared at intermediate pianists who understand core concepts like chord progressions, scales, and arpeggios, and have some practice in sight-reading and composition basics. If you need to revisit those skills, check out Elijah's first three classes. Since learning music takes time, this class is designed to complement your own self-guided practice or lessons. All you’ll need is a keyboard or piano (ideally one with a sustain pedal).

This is the fourth class in Elijah’s five-part Complete Piano Learning Path. To continue building your skills in the next class, click here.

• Introduction
• Getting Started
• Creating Progressions
• Patterns and Inversions
• Pentatonic Improvisations
• Repetitive Notes
• Blues Scale
• Improvising Keys
• Patterns and Composing
• Musical Arranging
• Composer Techniques
• Final Thoughts