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Jazz Piano Lessons

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Here's an outline of topics your teacher can cover with you depending on your level of ability.

Beginner
  • Intervals
    • Simple intervals
    • Compound intervals
  • Scales
    • Major scales
    • Minor scales (emphasis on the ascending melodic minor scale)
  • Triads
    • Major triads
    • Minor triads
    • Diminished triads
    • Augmented triads
    • Inversions of all triads
  • Repertoire
    • The twelve bar-blues form
    • The blues scale
  • Rhythmic concepts
    • Swung eighths
    • Straight eighths
    • Practicing with the metronome on beats 1 and 3
Intermediate
  • Modes/Scales
    • Modes of the major scale
    • Modes of the ascending melodic minor scale (emphasis on the "altered" scale)
    • Chord scales
    • "Modal" playing
    • "Triadic" playing
  • Harmony
    • Major seventh chords
    • Minor seventh chords
    • Dominant seventh chords
    • Minor major seventh chords
    • Half diminished chords
    • Fully diminished chords
    • Inversions of all seventh chords
    • The "ii V I" progression
    • The "iii vi ii V" turnaround
  • Repitore
    • Standards
  • Rhythmic Concepts
    • Practicing with the metronome on beats 2 and 4
    • Rhythmic counterpoint
Advanced
  • Bebop and Chromaticism
    • Approaching chord-tones by step
    • Pentatonics
    • Intervalic playing
    • Melodic counterpoint
    • Playing "outside" the changes
    • "Free" playing
  • Harmony
    • Substitutions
    • Poly tonality
    • Passing chords
    • Pedal points
    • Pedal points
  • Repertoire
    • Learning standards in different keys
    • Composition
  • Rhythmic concepts
    • Odd meters
    • Poly meters
    • Poly rhythms
    • Rhythmic modulation
    • Changing meters
    • Practicing with the metronome on different parts of the beat
  • Ear Training
    • Transcription and analysis
    • Sight singing
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About the Piano

Since a large number of composers are proficient pianists and because the piano keyboard offers an easy means of complex melodic and harmonic interplay, the piano is often used as a tool for composition.

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