This course does not have open access anymore.
This online course follows on from Learn Jazz Piano: III. Solo Piano and Advanced Topics.
In this final part of the Jazz Piano series, you’ll combine everything you’ve learned up to now, whilst adding some cool new skills to your musical repertoire.
You’ll look at advanced blues sequences, ballads, special devices, comping and various influences on jazz - including Latin jazz and jazz funk.
You’ll end triumphantly with two programmed concerts, a solo concert and a concert from My Piano Trio.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Develop your understanding of blues sequences and playing ballads
- Explore the jazz influences of Latin jazz, jazz funk, third stream, free jazz and improvised music
- Investigate the fourth route to improvising of special devices
- Apply your knowledge of chords to comping behind soloists
- Investigate the topics of pianistic and non-pianistic influences, musical resources including playalongs, how to learn standards by heart, how to practice, transcription, composition, group formation, recording and gig getting
- Perform many of the 75 tunes we meet in the course
- Reflect on your experiences of listening to the final solo and piano trio concerts and describe how you might integrate some of the ideas you identify into your own playing