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YouTube Videos
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C Jam Blues - Jazz pianist deconstructs Oscar Peterson
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.
The first thing I learned from Barry Harris
I've learned so much by studying Barry Harris' teachings. This concept of "6th on the 5th" was the first that I really took to heart. I hope it's useful for you.