Teaching Method: Explaining Music with Music
- Gradual access to the complete Advanced Players Course
- 200+ Lessons
- 320+ Pages of downloadable Sheet Music
- 25+ Play along Tracks
- Monthly Practice Plans
- Additional Exercise for motivated advanced Players
Is this course right for you?
- You can improvise blues, but you struggle to push yourself to the next level.
- You find it difficult to play together with jazz musicians.
- You feel comfortable to improvise with blues scales, but it just sounds weird when you try to improvise with other scales.
- You want to be a well-rounded pianist, but at the same time, you don’t want to get overwhelmed with too many exercises at once.
- You are looking for a method where music is explained with music.
- You have a limited time every day, and you need clear and straightforward instruction from the moment you open a video lesson.
The Structure of the Advanced Course
1. Month
I. Preparatory Exercises
- How to Practice Scales Early Intermediate variations
- How to Practice Scales Late Intermediate variations
- Jazz Rhythm Exercises
II. Rhythm Workout
- How to develop a swing feel: 8th Notes Workout
- How to develop a swing feel: 8th Note Rest workout (Beat 1)
- How to develop a swing feel: 8th Note Rest workout (Beat 2)
- How to develop a swing feel: 8th Note Rest workout (Beat 3)
- How to develop a swing feel: 8th Note Rest workout (Beat 4)
- How to develop a swing feel: 8th Note Rest workout (Random)
III. Improvisation Etude
IV. Funk Grooves and Improvisation
WARM-UP ROUTINE
I. Scale workout in 12 keys
- Five-finger scale exercises (12 Major Keys)
- Five-Finger scale exercises (12 Minor Keys)
- 6 Additional Variations
JAZZ-BLUES IN C
II. Walking Bass
III. Chords
IV. Jazz-blues Improvisation
2. Month
I. Licks and Improvisation
- 16 Blues Licks in A Minor – Part 1
- 16 Blues Licks in A Minor – Part 2
- Blues Improvisation Etude No. 2
- 9 Ways to Play Bluesy Left Hand Grooves
- Blues Challenge
II. Creative Practicing
- Creative Practicing 101 (Level 1)
- Creative Practicing 101 (Level 2)
- Creative Practicing 101 (Level 3)
- Creative Practicing 101 (Level 4)
- Creative Practicing 101 (Level 5)
- Creative Practicing 101 (Level 6)
- Creative Practicing 101 (Level 7)
III. Powerful Chord Progressions
IV. Test your skills
JAZZ HANON
- Jazz Hanon No. 1
- Jazz Hanon No. 2
- Jazz Hanon No. 3
- Jazz Hanon No. 4
- Jazz Hanon No. 5
- Jazz Hanon No. 6
- Jazz Hanon No. 7
- Jazz Hanon No. 8
- Jazz Hanon No. 9
- How to make the best out of Jazz Hanon
- I can’t reach the 10th, what to do?
Note: YouTube Jazz Janon ≠ SoE Jazz Hanon 🙂
The Jazz Hanon exercises in this section are easier and more systematic than the Jazz Hanon exercises that you can find on my youtube channel.
3. Month
I. Traditional 12 Bar Blues Workout
II. Advanced 12 Bar Jazz-Blues Workout in the key of Bb
- Let’s Blues: Solo Piano Workout
- Let’s Blues: Jazz Trio Workout
- Improvisation – Bb Major Blues Scale
- Improvisation – Bb Minor Blues Scale
- Improvisation – Bb Major & Minor Blues
- ii-V-I Licks in Blues
III. JAZZ-BLUES IN F
II. Jazz-blues Workouts
- Consistent Comping Rhythm Pattern (Ab Minor Blues)
- Ab Minor Blues Improvisation
- B Minor Blues Workout
- Blues for McCoy Tyner
- Behind the Scenes
III. Jazz-Blues Improvisation
- Major Pentatonic and Blues Improvisation – Part 1
- Major Pentatonic and Major Blues (Straight 8th Notes)- Part 2
- C Major Blues Scale and Walking Bass
- C Major Blues Scale and Rootless Voicings
- Major Pentatonic and Blues Improvisation ( +Walking Bass)
- Major Pentatonic and Blues Scale Improvisation (+ Rootless Voicings)
4. Month
Week 1
II-V-I WORKOUT (FORMULA 1 – BASIC VOICINGS)
- 5-7-9-3 Voicings
- Applying 5-7-9-3 Voicings (Level 1)
- Applying 5-7-9-3 Voicings (Level 2)
- Applying 5-7-9-3 Voicings (Level 3)
Week 2
- Dorian, Mixolydian, Ionian (Level 1)
- Dorian, Mixolydian, Ionian (Level 2)
- Dorian, Mixolydian, Ionian (Level 3)
- ii-V-I workout: Jazz Standards
Week 3
- Comping: 3 Note Voicings – Variation 1 (Part 1)
- Comping: 3 Note Voicings – Variation 1 (Part 2)
- Comping: 3 Note Voicings – Variation 1 (Part 3)
Week 4
II-V-I WORKOUT
- How to Practice Scales (Level 1)
- How to Practice Scales (Level 2)
- How to Practice Scales (Level 3)
- Scales, Arpeggios and Enclosures (Level 1)
- Scales, Arpeggios and Enclosures (Level 2)
- ii-V-I in C Major: Improvisation Etude
- ii-V-I in C Major: Free Improvisation
How to Read Lead Sheet for Jazz Piano
5. Month
Major ii-V7alt-I Workout
- Altered Scale Variations – Isolation
- Major ii-V-I Altered Scale – Integration
- Major ii-V-I Altered Scale – Integration (Pro Edition)
- Short Major ii-V-I Altered Scale – Integration
- Short Major ii-V-I Altered Scale Integration (Pro Edition)
Minor ii-V7alt-i Workout
- Minor ii-V-I Altered Scale – Integration
- Minor ii-V-I Altered Scale Integration (Pro Edition)
- Short Minor ii-V-i Altered Scale Integration
- Short Minor ii-V-i Altered Scale Integration (Pro Edition)
Rootless Dominant 7th Workout
6. Month
Week 1
- Comping | ii-V-I | 3-note Voicings – Level 2 (Sheet Music)
- Comping | ii-V-I | 3-note Voicings – Level 2 (Chord Symbols)
- Comping | ii-V-I | 3-note Voicings – Level 2 (Roman Numerals)
Week 2 (Bill Evans Left-Hand Voicings)
- Comping: 4-Note Rootless Voicings (Sheet Music)
- Comping: 4-Note Rootless Voicings (Chord Symbols)
- Comping: 4-Note Rootless Voicings (Roman Numerals)
Week 4
- 3-Note Rootless Voicings | Formula 2 | Sheet Music
- 3-Note Rootless Voicings | Formula 2 | Chord Symbols
- 3-Note Rootless Voicings | Formula 2 | Roman Numerals
7. Month
Week 1
- 4-Note Rootless Voicings | Formula 2 | Sheet Music
- 4-Note Rootless Voicings | Formula 2 | Chord Symbols
- 4-Note rootless Voicings | Formula 2 | Roman Numerals
- Bebop Lick No. 2 – Part 1
- Bebop Lick No. 2 – Part 2
- Bebop Lick No. 2 – Part 3
(More to come :))
- Scales and Arpeggios (From the Root and 9th)
- Blues Etude No. 1 (Scales and Arpeggios)
- Bebop Hanon: Enclosures, Scales & Arpeggios
- Possibilities and Problem-Solving in Jazz
- How to connect Scales, Enclosures, and Arpeggios
- AAA & AAB Blues Form
- ABC Blues Form
- Play & Rest Approach (Part 1)
- Play & Rest Approach (Part 2)
PIANO COURSE
FOR ADVANCED PLAYERS
MUSIC SHOULD SOUND LIKE MUSIC…FROM DAY 1
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