Learn jazz piano improvisation using only the pentatonic scale.
We start up very easy and then we put on more and more stuff as we go along. In the end we go crazy building SUPER CHORDS flying into space!
This is a very comprehensive lesson that contains stuff for both the beginner and the trained pianist.
Index:
00:00 Intro
02:54 Basic Stuff: Learning the pentatonic hand grip
09:18 Exercises: To be familiar with the pentatonic hand grip
19:57 More stuff: About the pentatonic row
25:14 Exercises: To be familiar with the pentatonic row
42:30 Music Theory: How to play all 7 church modes using the pentatonic row
52:16 Crazy stuff: Playing super chords
This music lesson contains useful exercises to improve and connect left hand voicing and right hand solo licks. Here is a link to a PDF doc with all sheet music exercises shown in this lesson:
http://newjazz.dk/Compendiums/Pentatonic_Exercises.pdfThe document also contains some variants not shown in the video.
In this jazz lesson I refer to the following other videos from NewJazz:
Playing jazz solo using only 3 fingers:
https://youtu.be/EJaG-rmHzB8Playing the Dorian mode using the pentatonic row:
https://youtu.be/IssgEqN2aIYLearn the church mode theory digging really deep into the modes and their interrelation:
https://youtu.be/v5cw-WYNBgIBuild the Circle of church modes - a handy tool to look up every mode in any tonality:
https://youtu.be/MJz9NFfWN-IHow to use the pentatonic row to play a totally atonal but yet meaningful and structured jazz solo:
https://youtu.be/AXLJfhiri_gModal Moon Dance: A jazz song using the techniques explained in this video:
https://youtu.be/0Vg7kxDrELEI surely hope you enjoy this lesson in jazz piano improvisation, and that you can benefit from the pentatonic jazz techniques :)
Warm regards
Oliver Prehn
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