Learn jazz piano: Improvising on Jazz Standards
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Course overview
- Provider
- Futurelearn
- Course type
- Free trial availiable
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Course author
- Ray d'Inverno
Description
Good improvisation draws on a range of tools and techniques to respond to existing beats and music whilst adding your own unique interpretations.
Understand and apply the basics of jazz improvisationThis course will teach you the art of improvisation in modern jazz, and give you the skills to improvise over a minor blues sequence and through rhythm changes.
You’ll respond to different pieces of music, and build your confidence and fluency when improvising.
Explore blues and jazz theoryYou’ll delve into both the practical and theoretical side of music as you study tracks by John Coltrane.
You’ll also discover modal jazz and its importance, with a specific focus on the songs ‘The Clock of Keys’ and its application in ‘All the Things You Are’.
Discover jazz standardsThe final sections of the course will introduce you to, two jazz standards and develop your understanding of the inner workings of improvisation to a higher level.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a good understanding of how to improvise on jazz standards, through a mix of theory and practice. You’ll get to grips with improvising over rhythm changes and playing left hand voicings in three different ways.
