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Jazz Piano for Beginners - Improvise Like a Pro

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About Jazz Piano for Beginners - Improvise Like a Pro

Welcome to the Class

Class Project

The Basics

The Major Pentatonic Scale

The First Chord Progression

The 2-5-1 Chord Progression

Exclusive Bonus Resources

The Minor Pentatonic Scale

The Pinky Drop

Bringing It Together

The Blues Scale

The "Just the Two of Us" Progression

Hands Together

John's Demo

The Principles of Improvisation

Learning the Karate Chop

Learning the Lamb Chop

Finger Strengthening Exercises

Thanks for watching

What You Will Learn?

  • In this course we hack piano improvisation to get you up and running from 0 piano experience to making up melodies on the spot and impressing your friends!.
  • My FREE Skillshare Bonus ResourcesAs I mentioned in the course, I’ve now made a bunch of free resources for all of my Skillshare classes, exclusively for my Skillshare students. They’re packed with additional course-related content for every class, and will help you refresh what you’ve learnt, as well as explore some of the other classes you haven’t taken yet. Check it out here..
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  • Improvisation is seen as a freakish talent that requires years of experience, but Ali and I are going to take you from complete beginner to jazz pro in a series of bitesize lessons. What’s even better is that you guys can learn alongside Ali and watch as I give him tips and tricks and exercises along the way to make huge improvements in a super short time span! The course consists of 5 main sections.
  • 1. Notes of the piano    .
  • The bare basics → Essential for everything else covered in the course.
  • 2. 3 scales.
  • These are what your right hand will be playing.
  • 3. 3 chords progressions.
  • These are what you left hand will be playing, it provides the foundation and substance to the right hand scales. .
  • 4. Examples of how to play hands together. .
  • 5. Finger strengthening exercises.
  • Two finger strengthening exercises to build up muscle memory and allow you to play more fluidly..
  • “Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone – beginners, children, and non-musicians.” – Derek Bailey.
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  • Who am I?.
  • My name is Ali - I'm a doctor working in the UK, and on the side I make YouTube videos about medicine, tech and productivity. Productivity is probably the issue I get asked most often about on my YouTube channel and across social media. Through reading books, blog posts, articles as well as experimenting with numerous techniques myself over the years, I feel that I've developed a bit of knowledge about productivity and that's why I've decided to put together this extensive series of Skillshare classes to share my own knowledge in the realm of productivity and hopefully help us all work towards living happier, healthier and more productive lives..
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  • Other Useful Links:.
  • John's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/kamelmusic.
  • John's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnkamelmusic/.
  • My website / blog - https://www.aliabdaal.comMy weekly podcast - https://www.notoverthinking.comWeekly email newsletter - https://email.aliabdaal.comInstagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaalTwitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaalFacebook - https://facebook.com/aliabdaal.
  • Camera Gear - https://kit.co/AliAbdaalKeyboard - Wireless Coral mechanical keyboard (Cherry Blue) - https://iqunix.store/aliFavourite iPad Screen Protector - Paperlike - https://paperlike.com/ali.
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