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Jazz Skills & Chords

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Chords


Basic Bass, to get more rhythm and bass movement
Bass Notes Extra. Another bass 3 instead of 1 the root
Blues Chords, Rootless voicing, the left hand
Blues Chords, Rootless voicing, the right hand
Chord Colours. Upper stuctures to colour the chords in an easy way and good to get routine in playing chords
Chords and Melody in one hand, how to play solo piano

Chords Inversions and Voicings. How to connect chords the easy way.
Chords Lookalikes. A good way to learn all the major chords.
Diminished Chords, scales, b9 and #9, one big family
Four Memories. How to study
Happy Birthday, an arrangement in five parts from easy to more colorful versions
Lover Man a 12/8 Groove and Chords Voicings
Moving Pedal Point. A pedal point can be static but also moving, just give it rhythm
Pedal Point is a nice technique to make tension for an intro, interlude or coda
Solo Piano. Bass, chords and melody in two hands. This is the technique to practice it
Solo Piano Exercises Part 1, exercises 1, 2 and 3
Solo Piano Exercises Part 2, exercise 4
Solo Piano Exercises Part 3, exercises 5 and 6
The Second Chord. It takes some courage to lift your hand from a familiar position to move it. But it's easier than you think and will give a whole new spectrum of colors, a more modern sound especially if the melody makes use of the new setting.
Two Chord Groove. A nice groove with only two chords
Two Top Notes. With moving only two notes in the top of a chord
Turnaround, chords, bass ad groove
You and the night and the music, an approach to make lines and open ears to improve improvisation.
You and the night and the music, chords and melody. Another way to memorize a song, speeding up the bass.
Quartal Chords, Fourth chords in Modal music
Quartal Chords, Fourth chords in Standards
Quick learning of Standards by speeding up the bass

Chords Basics


Step 1- Chords Lookalikes. There are only 12 major chords and you can play milions of tunes with it. One way to learn them quick is to see the lookalikes
Step 2- Chords Inversions and Voicings. How to connect chords, the Triads, the easy way
Step 3- Chord Movement. A basic way to move between chords, let our hands get used to it. With some extra rhythm fun to practice
   
Basic Bass, to get more rhythm and bass movement
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Blues Chords Part 1, rootless voicings
Blues Chords Part 1, rootless voicings
The right hand
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Chord Colours. Upper stuctures to colour the chords in an easy way and good to get routine in playing chords.

Solo Piano. Bass, chords and melody in two hands. This is the technique to practice it.

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Chords Lookalikes. There are only 12 major chords and you can play milions of tunes with it. One way to learn them quick is to see the lookalikes. The basic Triads.

Chord Movement. A basic way to move between chords, let our hands get used to it. With some extra rhythm fun to practice
Chords Inversions and Voicings. How to connect chords, the Triads, the easy way.
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Diminished Chords and Scales
Four Memories. There are many ways to memorize chords, scales, rhythms and tunes. We have several memories to uses. Fill them all.
Happy Birthday, an arrangement in five parts from easy to more colorful versions. The Sheet music is Available Here.

     
Lover Man a 12/8 Groove and Chords Voicings
Pedal Point is a nice technique to make tension for an intro, interlude or coda. One bass and on top shifting chords is, with some good timing, all we need.

 
Solo Piano. Bass, chords and melody in two hands. This is the technique to practice it.

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Solo Piano Exercises Part 1
Solo Piano Exercises Part 2
Solo Piano Exercises Part 3
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Night and Day, in a solo piano technique. Bass left and in the righthand chords and melody.

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The Second Chord, dare to explore
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You and the night and the music Melody and improvisation
You and the night and the music Chords
     
Quartal Chords
In Standards
Quartal Chords
In Modal music
Learning to play a tune by heart fast.
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Two Chord Groove. A nice groove with only two chords. Just swap two parallel triads, major and minor or visa versa. It gives a poppy/gospel sound.
Very usable to study triads and there inversions.
Moving Two Top Notes. With moving only two notes in the top of a chord the whole thing starts to groove. Add a bass and there you are.
 
 
 
 
 
Turnaround. Bass, chords and a groove.

Solo piano technique. Bass left and in the righthand chords and melody.

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Night and Day, in a solo piano technique. Bass left and in the righthand chords and melody.

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Quartal Chords
In Standards
Quartal Chords
In Modal music
Learning to play a tune by heart fast.
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