LESSONS INDEX

INTRODUCTION

About the Course
Digital Pianos
Modern Vs. Classical
Is Music a Language?
The Amateur's Mind
About the Instructor
Mapping the Keyboard
II-V-I Chord Progression
Major 7th Arpeggios
Major 7 - Practice
The Jazz Scales
Minor Improvisation
Passing Chords
F Blues - Walking Bass Line
The Dream (Sembello)
Forbidden Colours (Sakamoto)
Forbidden - Breakdown
Prelude in Em - Op28 N4 (Chopin)

LEVEL 1

In Search of a Definition
The Discovery
How do we Speak Music?
Understanding the Keyboard
Phrasing the Major Scale
Scales and Modes
Music and Time
What is Swing?
The Intervals 
The Learning Process
The Musical Frameworks
The Blue Series of Exercises
Understanding Tonality
The Pentatonic Scale
Moving the Voices
 I-IV-V Riff
9 Important Facts - Recap
The Seventh Chords
The Seventh Chords - Less is More
Working with Chord Progressions
Dominant Seventh Chords
The Sixth Chords
The Blues Scale
Opening the Scales
Major Bebop Scales
Dominant Bebop Scales
Dominant Bebop Scales II-V-I
Bebop Articulation
Extensions & Dissonances
Walking Bass Lines - All Keys
Improvisation - Introduction
Phrasing - Part 1
Blues - Comping with Tritones 1
Blues - Comping with Tritones 2
Blues - Comping with Tritones 3
Improvisation - Donna Lee
Donna Lee - Part 1 (C. Parker)
Donna Lee - Part 2
Donna Lee - Part 3 
Donna Lee - Part 4 (C. Parker)
Practice on the Go
Precision over Distance
Mastering the Scales - P1
Mastering the Scales - P2
Exercising our Fingers
Scale Practice Tips 1
Scale Practice Tips 2

LEVEL 2

Symmetrical Materials 
Harmony & Counterpoint
Breaking the Major 9th
Breaking the Minor 9th
Elements of the Solo - P1
Elements of the Solo - P2
Donna Lee - Part 5 (C. Parker)

LEVEL 3

Harmony & Counterpoint - Ex 1
Harmony & Counterpoint - Ex 2
Harmony & Counterpoint - Ex 3 
Minor Bebop Scales
Jazz Minor Scale - Var.2
Elements of the Solo - P3
Elements of the Solo - P4
Donna Lee - Part 6 (C. Parker)
Donna Lee - Part 7 (C. Parker)

LEVEL 4

Using Passing Notes - P1
Using Passing Notes - P2 
II-V-I (Left Hand)
Using Substitutions
Elements of the Solo - P5
Elements of the Solo - P6

LEVEL 5

Using Passing Notes - P3
Using Passing Notes - P4
Using Passing Notes - P5
The Altered Scale
The Maj 7/9 Chords
Phrasing the Maj7/9
Elements of the Solo - P7

LEVEL 6

The Major Arpeggio
Phrasing the Major Scales - P2 
The 13th Chord - P1
The 13th Chord - P2
Elements of the Solo - P8
Elements of the Solo - P9

LEVEL 7

The Major Arpeggios - P2
The 13th Chord - P3
The 13th Chord - P4
Extending our Phrasing
Improvisation - P2
Out of Town (Yellow Jackets)

LEVEL 8

The Dominant 7 Arpeggios
Linking the Major Scales
Dominant Pentatonic Scales
The Major Hexatonic Scale
1,2,3,5 - Major Penta (Omit 4th)
Improvisation - P3
Improvisation - P4

LEVEL 9

Dominant Pentatonic Scales
Boogie-Woogie - P1
Boogie-Woogie - P2
Boogie-Woogie - P3
Hexatonic Using 1,2,3,5s
Improvisation - P5
Improvisation - P6
Improvisation - P7
Blues - LH Comping

LEVEL 10

The Fourth Chords - P1
The Fourth Chords - P2
The 7(b9) Chords - P1
The 7(b9) Chords - P2
The 7(b9) Chords - P3
The 7(b9) Chords - P4
2 Feel Bass Line

LEVEL 11

Melodic Cells - P1
Melodic Cells - P2
Melodic Cells - P3
Melodic Cells - P4
The 7(b9,11) Chords - P1
The 7(b9,11) Chords - P2
The 7(b9,11) Chords - P3
The 7(b9,11) Chords - P4
II-V Bass Jazz Arpeggios - P1

LEVEL 12

Popular Chord Progressions - P1
Popular Chord Progressions - P2
Popular Chord Progressions - P3
Popular Chord Progressions - P4
Popular Chord Progressions - P5
The 7(#9) Chords - P1
The 7(#9) Chords - P2
F7 Blues - Left Hand - P1
Blues - Left Hand - P2
Billie’s Bounce (C. Parker)

LEVEL 13

Popular Chord Progressions - P6
Popular Chord Progressions - P7
The 7(#9) Chords - P3
The 7(#9) Chords - P4
The 7(#9) Chords - P5
F7 Blues Left Hand - P3
F7 Blues Left Hand - P4
F7 Blues Left Hand - P5

LEVEL 14

The 7(#9,b13) Chords - P1
The 7(#9,b13) Chords - P2
The 7(#9,b13) Chords - P3
The 7(#9,b13) Chords - P4
The 13 Chords - P5

LEVEL 15

Extended Arpeggios - P1
Extended Arpeggios - P2
The 13 Chords - P6
The 13 Chords - P7
Blues Variable Scale - P1
Blues Variable Scale - P2

LEVEL 16

Blues Relative Minor Scale
Jazz Minor Variable Scale - P1
Jazz Minor Variable Scale - P2
Dominant Diminished Scale - P1
Dominant Diminished Scale - P2
Dominant Diminished Scale - P3

LEVEL 17

From Arpeggios to Scales - P1
From Arpeggios to Scales - P2
Hybrid Scale over the F7 Blues
Harmonizing Melodically
Advanced Major Phrasing

LEVEL 18

LH Bass & Chords
Playing Jazz Standards
Improvising Progressions
Playing with a Band
A Foggy Day - P1 (Gershwin)
A Foggy Day - P2 (Gershwin)
A Foggy Day - P3 (Gershwin)
A Foggy Day - P4 (Gershwin)

LEVEL 19

Blues Scale Extended
Using Melodic Ideas
Phrasing the II-V-I - P1
Phrasing the II-V-I - P2
Phrasing Deceptive II-Vs - P1
Phrasing Deceptive II-Vs - P2
A Remark you Made (J. Zawinul)

LEVEL 20

The Fourth Chords - P3
The Fourth Chords - P4
Waltz in C# Minor (Chopin)
Well, you Needn't (T. Monk)
Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)

LEVEL 21

Blues Variable Scale - P3
Playing the C7 Blues - P1
Playing the C7 Blues - P2
Playing the C7 Blues - P3
Playing the C7 Blues - P4
Playing the C7 Blues - P5
Nocturne Op9 N2 (Chopin)
Gymnopedie N1 (Satie)
Gnossienne (Satie)
Clair de Lune - P1
Clair de Lune - P2
Clair de Lune - P3
Clair de Lune - P4
Classical Piano Interpretation

LEVEL 22

II-V-I-VI Progression - P1
II-V-I-VI Progression - P2
II-V-I-VI Progression - P3
II-V-I-VI Progression - P4
II-V-I-VI Progression - P5
Blues II-V-I-VI - P1
Blues II-V-I-VI - P2
Blues II-V-I-VI - P3
What Did I Choose You? (M. Leonard)
Arranging a Jazz Tune - P1
Arranging a Jazz Tune - P2

LEVEL 23

Overlapping Hands - P1
Overlapping Hands - P2
Overlapping Hands - P3
II-V-I-VI Walking Bass Line
II-V-I-VI Comping with Shells
Playing Outside - P1
Playing Outside - P2
Playing Outside - P3
Diminished Playing

LEVEL 24

Quartal Harmony - P1
Quartal Chords - Left Hand
Quartal Chords - Both Hands
The Quartal 6/9 Chords
Quartal Maj7 - P1
Quartal Maj7 - P2
Playing the G7 Blues - P1
Playing the G7 Blues - P2
Playing the G7 Blues - P3
Playing the G7 Blues - P4
Playing the G7 Blues - P5
Playing the G7 Blues - P6
Playing the G7 Blues - P7
G7 Blues - Playing the Solo - P1
G7 Blues - Playing the Solo - P2
G7 Blues - Playing the Solo - P3
G7 Blues - Playing the Solo - P4