Elements for Practising Jazz Piano

Internalise the fundamental practice methods for jazz piano

How to practice? What to practice? How to apply my practice to my playing? These are some of the most common questions we face in our daily study routine.

This masterclass offers a comprehensive practice method providing the necessary tools to succeed and advance as a jazz pianist. We will look at the most essential and fundamental elements of practicing jazz piano:

Phrasing, timing, voicing, harmony, improvisation, bass notes, approach notes and intervals

Topics covered:

You will approach harmony from different perspectives such as replacing a bass note to your chords, using different types of voicing, drop2 technique and guide tones.
We will study timing and phrasing by practicing the articulation of a music phrase and the duration and the placement of a note within a phrase.
You will learn how to use triads and upper-structures in your improvisation and extend your vocabulary by using different intervals.
Most importantly, you will learn how to integrate each element in a musical way and develop the technique to use these elements in your playing.
To effectively follow this course a basic knowledge of improvisational techniques is required. Students should be familiar with improvising and accompanying Jazz Standards.

How it works

The course is a series of related video lessons, each structured around a specific topic or topics. By the end of this course, you will have developed a strong sense of direction in your daily study routine.

Weekly video lessons
after joining the course, you will be able to view a new video lesson weekly. Each video lesson consists of:

Examples  that musically define the sound of the topic you are studying in each video

A study routine  section in which we first discuss how to study the specific topic of each lesson. We will then play several exercises specially written to show you how to structure your daily study routine

Assignments  that will help you consolidate and practice what you have learned in each video.

Weekly assignments
After each lesson, you will be asked to study, practice and then video record yourself playing an assignment which may consist of several exercises. When ready, you submit the video of your assignment. The process of having to record yourself every week, significantly helps to internalise the material discussed in this course - quickly and naturally.