jazz

Overview Learn the basic concepts of improvisation from Gary Burton, one of the most renowned improvisers in the jazz world, including the mental, melodic, and harmonic processes that contribute to the instinctive skills that an improviser puts to use when taking a solo. While many people are...

Overview The blues is an American art form and the most important musical form in jazz. Although there are other formal paradigms of the blues, such as 8-bar or 16-bar, this course focuses on different incarnations of the 12-bar blues. There are considerable differences between Early Jazz blues...

Overview Learn to play jazz piano, from the blues to a jazz standard. This online course is the first of four on playing jazz piano. It is aimed at playing modern jazz piano in a group context. It’s ideal if you can already play the piano, play your scales and have a basic ability to read music...

Overview Start improvising jazz piano This online course follows the course Learn Jazz Piano: I. Begin with the Blues from Goldsmiths, University of London. It’s ideal if you can already play the piano and scales, and have a basic ability to read music. You’ll learn more about the blues and...

Overview Get to grips with scale and chord theory and learn fifteen new tunes This online course follows on from Learn Jazz Piano: II. Improvising on Jazz Standards. On this more advance course you’ll start by looking at solo piano or playing in root position. You’ll move on to look at scale...

Overview Combine everything you’ve learned with the final course in the Jazz Piano series 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...