We create a bigger and more powerful sounding arrangement by playing the right hand melody in octaves above a stride left hand style.
In this lesson Tuomo demonstrates comping voicings and improvisation over the tune “Billie’s Bounce” which is a blues in the key of F.
We create a slow 12 bar blues progression in the key of F and explore ways to ornament and reharmonise the basic 12 bar blues chord changes.
The A Section of the tune repeats 3 times and so we can use passing chords to add interest to otherwise identical harmonic passages.
In this lesson we explore the head melody, comping voicings and improvisation over the tune “There Will Never Be Another You”.
We take the diatonic 7th chords and change the chord qualities to dominant which allows us to access more interesting colours & textures.
Expand your knowledge of functional harmony. We explore common voicings and progressions and then apply this information to well-known jazz standards.
Explore the most common chord progressions in C Major including the 251 and the 36251 with many variations in voicings and alterations.
In this lesson we create an arrangement for the tune “Insensatez” by Antonio Carlos Jobim. This tune is also known as “How Insensitive”.
In this lesson we create a simple vamp using the 251 and 2516 progression in the key of G Major using Brazilian rhythms.
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