Jazz & Blues Piano 2

This course focuses on bringing the standard 12-bar blues form into a more advanced and diverse chord structure by demonstrating some specific places where alternate chord changes are commonly used. Altered extensions can also be used on particular chords in order to create motion from one chord to the next.

In this lesson you are going to be using chord substitutions in a 12 bar blues form to create a full blues "song" with bassline.

In this lesson you'll learn some of the specific elements of the blues song we created in the last lesson like descending harmony and a must have lick.

This lesson is all about creating improvisation ideas. You'll learn several licks and also some advanced topics like displacing the beat.

In this last lesson we are going to work on how to fill space along with some more advanced concepts like concerted comping and how to take the harmony "outside" during your solo.

This course brings you through walking bassline exercises #2-5, each getting more challenging. Topics of discussion include chord tones, scale tones, chromatic tones, and whole-step and half-step resolution.

In this course we’ll be studying some common alternate chords which can be inserted into the standard 12-bar blues progression in order to get that advanced, professional sound.