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Jazz Piano Chords - Rich sounding Jazz Chords for the Piano

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About Jazz Piano Chords - Rich sounding Jazz Chords for the Piano

Introduction

How to follow this course

Introduction to triads and other chords

Major triads

Minor triads

Diminished triads

Augmented triads

Inversions

Slash notation

Major 7th

Dominant 7th

Minor 7th

Diminished

Augmented

Minor major 7th

Chord Inversions

Slash notation - II

II-V-I progression

Playing the II-V-I progression in all 12 keys

Sus chords

Adding notes to chords Introduction

Adding notes to major 7th chords

Adding notes to minor 7th chords

Adding notes to dominant 7th chords

Add more than 1 note Altered

II-V-I progressions-II (A and B positions)

Playing the II-V-I's in all 12 keys (A and B positions)

Major 7th chord voicings

Minor 7th chord voicings

Dominant 7th chord voicings

Altered chord voicings

Diminished chord voicings

Augmented chord voicings

So What chords

Fourth chords

So What and Fourth-chords in other keys

Upper structures

Build your own chord voicings

Information about Comping

Tritone substitution

What You Will Learn?

  • THE COURSE THAT REVEALS ALL THE SECRETS OF JAZZ PIANO CHORDS.
  • You always wondered how experienced jazz piano players create those rich sounding jazz chords? This course will teach YOU how to play them on the piano..
  • DISCOVER QUICKLY HOW CHORDS WORK AND HOW TO ADD THAT RICH JAZZ SOUND TO BASIC CHORDS.
  • Detailed explanation by an experienced teacher (25+ years of experience) makes that you will quickly understand how to form even the most complicated jazz piano chords..
  • YOU WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO PLAY ALL THE JAZZ TUNES YOU WANT ON THE PIANO, HAVE A "LIBRARY" OF CHORD VOICINGS AT YOUR DISPOSAL, AND EVEN CREATE YOUR OWN CHORD VOICINGS.
  • You will be able to play every chord-type that exists in all the inversions possible, in close position and with the notes more spread out, so that with one and the same chord, you can create different emotions, with more or with less tension..
  • Topics covered in this class:.
  • - All the 'basic' triads and 7th chords.
  • - Slash chords.
  • - Adding notes (and alterations) to the basic chords.
  • - II-V-I progressions (basic and with added notes) in all 12 keys.
  • - Sus chords.
  • - Lots of different chord voicings for all the chord types.
  • - 'So What'-chords.
  • - Fourth chords.
  • - Upper Structures.
  • - Building your own chord voicings.
  • - Comping.
  • - Tritone Substitution.