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Today we’re going to take a look at the 2-5-1 chord progression. This is one of the most common chord progressions you’ll find in jazz music, so it’s absolutely essential whether you’re an aspiring jazz pianist or just want to learn a few cool jazz licks.
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This Jazz Piano Tutorial is about Comping. ‘Comping’ means ‘accompanying or complementing’ a soloist.
While comping, you have 2 objectives:
– Complement the soloist rhythmically AND harmonically
– Stay out of the soloist’s way
Rhythm Rules
Your goal while comping is to create variety in your rhythm (unlike ‘Vamping’). This is done by:
– Play with OR between the melody
– Play on AND off the beat
– Play short AND long notes
Harmony Rules
– Alter and Substitute Chords
– Add Ornamentals
Voicings Rules
– Pick appropriate register for voicing (generally middle register) & get out of soloist’s way
– Use intervals of 4ths or greater
– You CAN play the root in the bass
– Minimise movement between chords
– Soprano Voice Leading
How to stay our of the soloist’s way
– Play in a different register to soloist
– Use voicings with intervals of 4ths & wider
– Use short notes with pauses – leaving open spaces for soloist
– Don’t use overly complex harmonies/substitutions (at first)
– Listen to the soloist – complement
In the video I use the song ‘Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You’ as an example of how to comp.
If you follow the rules and ideas laid out in this video, your comping will sound smooth and professional and tidy.
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Do you need a practice plan for this lesson? Alright, check this out:
In the video, I start with step 5, just because I don’t want to bore you with the basics. However, if you never played a walking bass before, the following practice plan is for you.
First, let’s create a very simple walking bass for this project.
Step 1 – 4:21
Step 2 – 4:53
Step 3 – 5:22
Step 4 – 5:51
You can memorize the same walking bass line that is shown in the video, or you can create your own based on the simple rules I just presented you in Step 1,2,3 and 4.
Before we start to improvise over our walking bass, let’s just get familiar with the 12 bar blues form, by playing Step 5 again and again.
(Note: In a jazz school, you learn that playing chords with the root, it’s a ‘no no’. Especially when you play walking bass with your left hand, or you have a bass player in the band. And that’s a great rule. However, if you do it here and there, just because this is the sound you are looking for, no worries. Nobody is going to think that you are a bad person.)
Step 6 – 0:48
LH: Walking bass
RH: Common Jazz Comping Rhythms
Once you feel comfortable with Step 5, add some rhythm to your voicings. Again, you can copy mine (if you are a beginner and need some ideas) or create your own. The best if you can vary/change your rhythm patterns whenever you play through the form.
Step 7 – 1:17
Can you play a five-finger blues scale up and down and keep the left hand steady? Let’s figure this out. If the answer is yes, move to Step 8.
Step 8 – 1:46
Can you play the complete ‘A minor blues scale’ up and down and keep the left hand steady? Let’s figure this out. If the answer is yes, move to Step 9.
Step 9 – 2:15
Student A: You can already start to improvise freely with the blues scale.
Student B: Whenever you start to improvise freely with your right hand, you mess up the walking bass.
Solutions:
1. Go back to Step 4 and 5 and play it 100 times.
2. Create a blues improvisation etude
When you create or follow my improvisation etude, you are practicing to get use to the randomness that is happening in your right hand. Since it is ‘planned randomness’ you have a bigger chance to keep your left hand steady.
Once you memorized the etude, you can try to play some melodic or rhythm variations on it.
Step 10 – 2:44
Find an A minor blues lick (just one or max 2) and apply it to your 12 bar blues.
Bonus Step – 3:13
Let’s go back to our Improvisation etude, and try to add some blues licks to it.
When you completed all these steps, just forget everything you learned so far and start to improvise freely 🙂
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Alright here’s an easy jazz piano progression for beginners. And when I say I bet you a million dollars you could play it, I mean it! As long as you follow the exact steps I outline in the video.
It’s basically a specific chord progression that LOOKS a lot harder than it is to play, but once you get the hang of it, it’s VERY easy to improv over, even if you’re a beginner.
And yes, this is somewhat of a “piano trick”. In other words, I’m not teaching the in-depth theory behind it, but it’s a great intro into Jazz and Improvising. And if you like it, feel free to sign up for the Piano Superhuman course to get more in depth lessons: http://www.bestpianoclass.com/ytdSuperhuman
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This is the second tutorial in my series on jazz piano for absolute beginners. In this lesson we build on what we learned in the first tutorial, using the C major pentatonic scale and two notes from the C blues scale to improvise over two, and then three, chords in the left hand.
I also introduce shell chords – incredibly useful for jazz piano – and talk about some of the underlying music theory it’s useful for you to know, especially if you’re relatively new to the piano or just coming back to the instrument.
Finally, I talk about the mental processes involved in jazz piano improvisation (and, in fact, in most forms of improvisation, musical and otherwise), and how skilled pianists and other improvisers have a mental toolkit from which they build their improvisations. This all depends on developing a “flow state”. The best jazz pianists have the biggest and best-practised toolkits and the best flow.
Are you a complete beginner who would like to learn jazz piano? If you think you need to learn a million scales, arpeggios, and chords to play jazz, then you are wrong! You can start playing jazz right away, even if you have zero piano playing experience. In this jazz piano lesson, you are going to learn the first steps to playing jazz piano, including:
– How to play jazz chords
– The most important progression in jazz
– How to move between chords efficiently
– The most important scale for jazz piano improv
– 3 essential jazz improvisation techniques and exercises
By the end of this lesson, you will have a firm grasp for jazz foundations. You will undertand basic jazz harmony, how jazz chord progressions work, and best of all, how to express yourself freely by improvising jazz piano. Let’s dive in.
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In this lesson I show you 3 easy jazz chords that all jazz beginner piano players should know!
They include a minor 11, a minor 7 flat 5, and an altered dominant. If the chord names sound like nonsense to you don’t worry because you don’t really need to understand them to be able to play them…. learn the theory later!
With these 3 chords we can construct what is known as a ‘minor II-V-I’ and this sounds awesome! Practice the chords in different keys to get familiar with them and try to incorporate them into your own playing.
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11:06 Partial ii-V-Is
12:55 The Minor ii-V-I
16:03 Jazz Scales
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