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Beautiful, Spicy Dominant Chords (every jazz pianist should know)
10 different ways to voice dominant 7th chords on the piano, including altered dominant voicings from Barry Harris.
You Too, Can Play Blues Kazoo
Not a day goes by where some kid passes me on the street and asks "Hey Mr. Josh, will you teach me how to play blues kazoo?!"
Well kid, today is your lucky day.
5 licks I stole from Brad Mehldau - Blackbird
Brad Mehldau's interpretation of Blackbird (Lennon / McCartney) from Art of the Trio in 1996.
5 licks I stole from Oscar Peterson - C Jam Blues
Oscar Peterson's recording of C Jam Blues is one of the great bebop standards. In this video we explore 5 jazz licks transcribed from that recording.
Can I learn the hardest bebop tune?
Can I master the famously terrifying Charlie Parker standard, Donna Lee?
Jazz Up Your Hymns - 5 Levels of Reharmonization
In this video we take a classic hymn, Amazing Grace, and we reharmonize it 5 ways with increasing jazz harmony.
Your First Jazz Piano Lesson
Learning to play jazz as a classically trained pianist comes with many challenges. Playing "off-the-cuff" from a lead sheet, and making it unique with each performance.
Modern Tips for Playing the Blues
When you start learning how to play the blues you learn about blues scales, blues licks, and shuffle patterns. But when you listen to the pros play the blues, they don't use these things -- at least not in the same way we do.
Dominants come from Diminished - Barry Harris
It's Friday, so that means a new Barry Harris video! This time, we explore Barry's concept of dominant chords coming from diminished chords, and how they literally share the DNA of their parents, the whole tone scales.
Borrowing Diminished Notes
Barry Harris taught us how to borrow notes from the 6th diminished scale to create tension and release.