Jazz Piano Lessons

 

                 
 How to Play Jazz Piano and Advanced Music Arranging
 At Music and You, you learn the exact jazz formulas Plus, Apply them in familiar jazz music.
 

  • Exact formulas for adding substitution chords
     

  • Add them to jazz song
     

  • Add open harmony to the left hand.  This is fun and can be used on any song and any rhythm
     
  • Study of 2-5-1 progressions and apply them in songs
     
  • Exact formulas for adding extensions and alterations, and again, apply it in actual music.
     
  • Study of scales and application for improvisation
     

  • Major & Minor scales
     

  • Jazz modal Scales
     
  • Synthetic Jazz Scales
     
  • Blues Scales
     
  • Play Comping Chords & Bass Lines


Play jazz chords with Jazz Extensions, Styling, 
   Piano Improvisation, Blues Piano

Yes, You too can learn to play jazz and have the exact theory of building jazz chords,
jazz scales, AND you will apply your lessons in actual jazz songs and learn how to improvise.
IT'S SO EASY BUT I HAVEN'T SEEN IT TAUGHT in step by step formats.  Most jazz students
pick up bits and pieces here missing several steps, and wonder why it is so difficult to add those sounds to music or improvise.  This is not a hear and play Jazz piano course......Learn the music theory and then we will apply it to actual familiar music. 
 


You will discover in our Jazz Piano Lessons

  • how jazz tones can create color in any music genre, whether Liberace style piano
    or cool jazz.

  • how to use an easy technique of chord substitutions to create those big jazz sounds

  • how to use scales for improv

  • how to style your music playing bass lines, open harmony,

  • and comping chords and quartals.

    Just listen to the color tones, Scales and improvs in the songs you will be playing.

 Willow Weep  MP3 | "Georgia on My Mind"  MP3 | "Stella by Starlight" MP3
"Green Dolphin Street"  MP3 | "I Got Rhythm" MP3

Check out the Lessons below and Hear examles what you will be playing in your lessons. 
 
Have Fun with the FREE Lessons #21 and #24
These are just simply written for even the Intermediate Student.
 

Bobbie Smith / Jazz Piano  2006
Thank you Alana, you are most kind!  Your Jazz lessons are the Best. 
I'm a classically trained musician, my area of interest is composition.  Over the years I've searched for information demystifying jazz chord harmonies: Bought the books of many artists and no one gave me a clue as to how do you come up with those jazz chords and progressions.  It's been such a mystery to me and I've felt that this has been a big missing piece in my composing.
You make it all so clear.  I'm very happy to have found you!
More testimonials

                         
Now, on with the Jazz Piano lessons!

1. Lessons 1-6 build the foundation, Adding chords and Extensions.
    Exact Rules to adding V7, V7 substitution chords and how to add Extensions,
    9th's 11th's and 13'th to all music,  + learn styling in Open Harmony. 

#1
Don't miss this one!
Chord Selectivity and
Reharmonization.
Adding V7 and Substitution Chords to music.

Step by Step theory
and application.
Includes illustrations,
songs, worksheets and exercises.

        

  # 2
1. Arrangement with
new chords.
2. Apply Lesson 1 to
Hear lesson 1 & 19
Over the Rainbow MP3

 
 

  

  # 3     
  Don't miss this one!
Styling the left hand in the
universal position of open harmony.  Fun and Easy
This L.H. position can be used to
style all Music: Blues, Jazz, Pop

This is a very important lesson. You will use this in all of your music.
Arranging the left hand in open harmony and how to add tones to the right hand.
     
       

#4
Chord Work up for
   'Very Early'
Composer Bill Evans

To purchase the Song:  
Bill Evans Fake Book

Using previous lessons
in a song.
There is no single sheet music available, so you can purchase a book.  Several of Evans songs are excellent for using open harmony.
This lesson is only written in #'s, no music notes. Use your finale notepad and write out the notes, an excellent way to start thinking in #'s.

 # 5
  Extensions &
  Alterations/9th's, 11th's, 13th's etc.

Finally, you have exact rules to music theory on extension tones and alterations.
Each chord, M7, V7, or m7, supports certain extensions.  You now have the rules and where to use them!

This lesson gives you practice in using them
and also more on
voice selectivity for
both hands. 

 

   #6
Chord Work up for 'Laura'
 Composer David Raksin

1. Open Harmony W/7 chords
2. Open Harmony & Voice selectivity for both hands.
3.  Using Extensions, 9th's,
     11th's, 13th's etc.
This lesson is used to apply
all the previous theory you
have learned.
 
             

2. All about Jazz improvisation and Jazz scales.
Start with Major and Minor   scales, add modals, and synthetic jazz scales and
blues scales.  Add Scales to arrangements for beautiful  fill-ins, beginnings and
endings.  Learn exactly which  scales to use for improvisation and how to improvise. 

# 7
Major & Minor Scales,
Theory. Pivotal Chords, Scale Modulations and
Exact Rules for Arranging and improvising on these
scales.
How to play comping chords for "All the Things You Are", + you will add scales for improv, and  use Motivic Development for improv with your song.

# 8
Complete Arrangement
using open harmony, then play right hand comping Play chords with a bass line.

 Lots of FUN and excellent for your new hand positions

 

  

 # 9
Study and application of Modal Scales, Theory.
How to build modal
scales, and how they
are used in improv and
arranging.  Applied to
"Green Dolphin Street"  Hear MP3
  

Exact theory to building
modal scales and how to use them for improv and arranging.
PLay scales above comping chords.
 
       

 # 10
Add Modal Scales

Complete Arrangement
using open harmony, then play right hand comping chords with a bass line.

 Lots of FUN and excellent for your new hand position
 

  

 # 11
Half Diminished Scales. 

Theory on scales, How to build scales and how to use
them in songs & practicing the scales. The half diminshed scales
are synthetic jazz scales.

This lesson uses the
chord structures of
"Stella by Starlight" 
 

  

 #12
Using the half dim scales with the song Stella. Plus comping chords, bass lines an jazz improv ideas.

You're really starting to
sound great now.

"Stella by Starlight"

 MP3 improv ideas
 
       
       

# 13
Diminished Scales
A synthetic Jazz Scale     

How to build the diminished scales and how they are used with chord selectivity for
improvisation.

Includes practice exercises.

# 14

Using the diminished scale with
"On Green Dolphin Street".

Lay in the diminished scales + improv ideas

   

    # 15

Blues Piano Lessons
Blues Scales and 12 bar blues.
Beginning of adding your own
licks and blues piano to music.

 Beginning of playing blues in songs.  FUN!
"Amazing Grace"  MP3 "Improvisation on C"
           
             

 # 16

Blues Piano
Piano Arrangement
Plus: Adding Substitution Chords, adding blues scales to and blues licks.
"Georgia on My Mind"              MP3
         Fun! Fun!
Purchase the Music
Then go to the lesson
'Georgia on my Mind'
 

# 17     

Blues Piano
Piano Arrangement
Playing Blues with
"Route 66"  Bass line,
and blues licks.
       
" Route 66"
Hear the music:  MP3

 # 18     

Blues Piano
Piano Arrangement
Playing Blues with
"I Got Rhythm" 
 Bass line, and more blues licks.

    ' I got Rhythm'
  
Hear the music:  MP3
           

 #19     

Piano  Scales, and FUN!
Adding Scales to:
Tips and Tricks
"Over the Rainbow"
       MP3
        

#20  

The study of II, V, I's


This is an important lesson
and includes the theory
plus exerices.

You need this lesson in
Jazz Studies.

# 21     

FREE Jazz Piano Lesson
BLues Piano w/ Jazz
I started playing w/Jingle Bells
for an example lesson 20, and had
so much fun, I would like to share
this arrangement with you at
NO CHARGE, Just ENJOY!

Jingle Bells MP3

Sheet music and lesson
         

# 22
Continuation of lesson 20
 Let's apply IIm7-V7 to a songs.  Tea For Two was written by Vincent Youman, and he wrote this song using IIm7-V7, but......he also used altered chords to change keys.

This is a study of IIm7-V7
Altered Chords and
New left hand style.
Wow! When you can zip
through songs with this styling, you feel so free and accomplished.
Tea for Two Mp3
other songs with the same styling  Mp3
 

 # 23
  Reharmonizing
"Willow Weep for Me"
Adding Substituion
Chords, Scale point
chords and IIm7, V7.

Also an arrangement
in open harmony, and
blues with tri-tone
quartals.

Willow Weep for Me
Hear the MP3

     FUN!
 

  

# 24
    FREE Jazz Piano Lesson
Students are always asking how
I would arrange "Take Five'
In this lesson, I will show you
the left hand chord positions
I would use.
I have also analyzed the chords.
This song is quite easy to analayze, but this should always be the first step in starting
every song. 
There is no melody in the
music, this lesson is only the
left hand.
If you need to purchase the music, go to, "Take Five"
       GO TO LESSON
           
             
 # 25

  Comping Chords:
Theory and application:

We have been playing comping chords in our lessons, and now you have the formulas for writing your own chords.

Plus, How to play them in Jazz, using accents, and staccatos.

I also wrote out comping chords for "Take Five" left hand only. Go to Lesson


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