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Learn to Play Jazz Piano

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Course Features

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Duration

25 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Lifetime Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

5 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

This ExpertTrack will help you improve your jazz piano playing skills, whether you are learning basic jazz improvisation or mastering advanced techniques.

This ExpertTrack will help you gain confidence and skills to: - Improvise using scalic-choral motivic routes, special devices play in voiced place - Include other jazz influences such as jazz funk and indo-fusion.

This course will provide an introduction to jazz improvisation and teach you how to play the piano in a group with a playalong.

The blues will be your first focus before you move on to jazz standards and building a foundation for improvisation.

This second course will help you improve your jazz improvisation skills. You will learn more about jazz standards and blues, as well as jazz improvisation through playalongs of jazz greats such as –I Got Rhythm, –All The Things You Are, and –Autumn Leaves.

The third course will take it to the next level by teaching you how to play solo jazz piano as well as a jazz waltz. Learn scale and chord theory, as well as modulation swing and rhythmic phrases.

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Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

This course is for any interested pianist, but may be of particular interest to university or college piano students studying music

You need to be comfortable playing piano in general but do not need any experience of Jazz

Target Students

If you want to explore jazz improvisation and prepare yourself for playing in a jazz group

This ExpertTrack will support experienced pianists at intermediate level who want to transition to playing jazz

Course Instructors

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Ray d'Inverno

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I have been a jazz pianist and educator for over fifty years and have developed this online course on learning jazz piano.
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