Goldsmiths University - Learn Jazz Piano: Begin with the Blues
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Learn Jazz Piano: Begin with the Blues at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 6 weeks |
Total fee | ₹900 |
Mode of learning | Online |
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Credential | Certificate |
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Learn Jazz Piano: Begin with the Blues at FutureLearn Highlights
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps, but you can complete them as quickly or slowly as you like.
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Demonstrate your ability to play and improvise on a jazz standard using a playalong.
Explore the art of improvisation using the four routes: scalic, chordal, motivic, special devices.
Learn Jazz Piano: Begin with the Blues at FutureLearn Course details
- On this course, you will get started with jazz piano by learning the basic concepts and prepare to play modern jazz piano in a group.
- You will delve into the four routes to improvisationg and deepen your understanding of the nature of jazz and blues to build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to improvise on piano.
- Improvisation may look off the cuff, but it requires a lot of foundational knowledge. To learn jazz improvisation, you will need to understand its influences and different styles first.
- This course will get you well acquainted with blues, and you will learn why its so integral to jazz piano.
- You will learn and compare the three principal chords and scales of jazz and classical music, and play open sevenths in root position. You will get acquainted with the F blues and voiced sevenths, and play along using the F American blues scale, seventh scales, and full blues scale.
- Using the diminished chord and scale will take your improvisation to the next level. You will learn about motivic, scalic chordal and special improvisation, along with some more fundamentals: the major seventh, the lonian scale and basic voicings, before playing and improvising.
- Further exercises will include playing along with jazz standards like the Blue Room and working to improvise on the themes using your new knowledge and skill set.
- By the end of this course, you will have a foundational understanding of the blues, and how it relates to jazz improvisation which is crucial to properly learn jazz piano.
Learn Jazz Piano: Begin with the Blues at FutureLearn Curriculum
Getting Started
Introduction and Background Information
Things Ain't What They Used To Be
The nature of jazz and the blues
Playing and improvising on "Things Ain't What They Used To Be"
Exercise, Learning Outcomes, Viewing and Listening
Introducing The Blues
The 3 principal chords and scales of classical music and jazz
Playing the left hand in root position: open sevenths
Improvising using sevenths, fifth-tenths and seventh-tenths
Exercises, Learning Outcomes, Viewing and Listening, Test
More On The Blues
The blues "Now's The Time", jazz lead sheets and voiced sevenths
Interlude : Downloading Aebersold playalong tracks from iTunes and using Audacity
Playing "Now's The Time" using an F blues playalong track
Improvising using the F American blues scale, seventh scales and full blues scales
Exercises, Learning Outcomes, Viewing and Listening
The Four Routes To Improvising
Chordal improvisation and introduction to the diminished chord and scale
The blues "Blue Monk" and motivic improvisation
The 4 routes to improvisation: scalic, chordal, motivic and special devices
Exercises, Learning Outcomes, Viewing and Listening, Test
Major and Minor Chords
The major seventh, the Ionian scale and basic voicings
The tune "Inch Worm"
The minor seventh and its role in a turnaround
Week 5 Exercises
Exercises, Learning Outcomes, Viewing and Listening
The jazz standard "Blue Room"
The Jazz Standard "Blue Room"
Improvising on "Blue Room"
Week 6 Exercises
Exercises, Learning Outcomes, Viewing and Listening, Assessments, Course Videos and Recordings List
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