Improvisation Episodes

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode begs you to Stop Thinking Way Too Hard when it comes to developing your improvisation skills. Exercises are presented to help you develop a practice approach for simplifying improvisation.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "Have You Met Miss Jones." Part Three of this study focuses on an Improvisation Developmental using a 4+3+5 approach.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "Don't Blame Me." Part Three of this study focuses on an Improvisation Developmental Approach using Zones, Patterns, Motifs, Tension Tones, and a "Stop & Go Approach.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "There Is No Greater Love." Part Three of this study focuses on an Improvisation Developmental Approach using Zones, Patterns, Motifs, and Tension Tones.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "Days of Wine and Roses." Part Three of this study focuses on an Improvisation Developmental Approach using Zones, Patterns, Motifs, and Tension Tones.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "These Foolish Things." Part Three of this study focuses on an Improvisation Developmental Approach using Zones, Patterns, Motifs, and Tension Tones.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "Indiana." Part Three of this study focuses on an Improvisation Developmental Approach using Zones, Patterns, Motifs, and Tension Tones.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "There Will Never Be Another You." Part Three of this study focuses on an Improvisation Developmental Approach using Zones, Patterns, Motifs, and Tension Tones.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the Past and Future of Jazz Piano Skills. From 2019 through 2023 lessons explored essential jazz piano skills. What's next?

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores "Let It Snow" by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. Discover, Learn, and Play Chords Changes, Harmonic Function, Melody, Fingerings, and four jazz vocabulary patterns for improvising.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Jazz Improvisation Exercises for 'G' Altered Sounds. Arpeggio and Scale Patterns for developing proper fingering and articulation.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Jazz Improvisation Exercises for 'G' Sounds. Arpeggio and Scale Patterns for developing proper fingering and articulation.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores "Oleo" by Sonny Rollins. Discover, Learn, and Play Chords Changes, Harmonic Function, Melody, Fingerings, and four jazz vocabulary patterns for improvising.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Jazz Improvisation Exercises for D Altered Sounds. Arpeggio and Scale Patterns for developing proper fingering and articulation.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Jazz Improvisation Exercises for 'D' Sounds. Arpeggio and Scale Patterns for developing proper fingering and articulation.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Charlie Parker's "Dewey Square". Discover, Learn, and Play Chords Changes, Harmonic Function, Melody, Fingerings, and four jazz vocabulary patterns for improvising.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Jazz Improvisation Exercises for A Altered Sounds. Arpeggio and Scale Patterns for developing proper fingering and articulation.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Jazz Improvisation Exercises for 'A' Sounds. Arpeggio and Scale Patterns for developing proper fingering and articulation.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores "Four" by Miles Davis. Discover, Learn, and Play Chords Changes, Harmonic Function, Melody, Fingerings, and four jazz vocabulary patterns for improvising.

This Jazz Piano Skills Episode explores the use of Improvisation Grids for developing linear melodic lines when improvising.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Jazz Improvisation Exercises for E Altered Sounds. Arpeggio and Scale Patterns for developing proper fingering and articulation.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Jazz Improvisation Exercises for 'E' Sounds. Arpeggio and Scale Patterns for developing proper fingering and articulation.

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Chet Baker's solos on "Tangerine" from the 1974 album "She Was Too Good To Me."

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores Dizzy Gillespie's "Groovin' High". Discover, Learn, and Play Chords Changes, Harmonic Function, Melody, Fingerings, and six jazz vocabulary patterns for improvising.