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April 17, 2024

Days of Wine and Roses, Improvisation

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.

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April 10, 2024

Days of Wine and Roses, Melodic Analysis

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "Days of Wine of Roses" Part Two of this study focuses on a Melodic Analysis, including Guide Tones, Pharses, Target Notes, and various Treatments.

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April 3, 2024

Days of Wine and Roses, Harmonic Analysis

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "Days of Wine and Roses" Harmonic Analysis. Part One of this study focuses on Form, Chord Changes, Harmonic Function, and Voicings.

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March 19, 2024

These Foolish Things, Improvisation

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.

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March 13, 2024

These Foolish Things, Melodic Analysis

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "These Foolish Things" Part Two of this study focuses on a Melodic Analysis, including Guide Tones, Pharses, Target Notes, and various Treatments.

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March 5, 2024

These Foolish Things, Harmonic Analysis

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "These Foolish Things" Harmonic Analysis. Part One of this study focuses on Form, Chord Changes, Harmonic Function, and Voicings.

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Feb. 21, 2024

Indiana (Back Home Again In), Improvisation

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.

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Feb. 14, 2024

Indiana (Back Home Again In), Melodic Analysis

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "Indiana, Back Home Again In" Part Two of this study focuses on a Melodic Analysis, including Guide Tones, Pharses, Target Notes, and various Treatments.

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Jan. 17, 2024

There Will Never Be Another You, Pt. 3

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.

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Jan. 10, 2024

There Will Never Be Another You, Pt. 2

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "There Will Never Be Another You." Part Two of this study focuses on a Melodic Analysis, including Guide Tones, Pharses, Target Notes, and various Treatments.

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Jan. 2, 2024

There Will Never Be Another You, Pt. 1

This Jazz Piano Skills Podcast Episode explores the jazz standard "There Will Never Be Another You." Part One of this study focuses on the Form, Chord Changes, Harmonic Function, and Voicings.

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Dec. 26, 2023

Jazz Piano Skills: Past and Future

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?

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Dec. 16, 2023

Let It Snow

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.

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Nov. 28, 2023

Oleo

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.

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Oct. 25, 2023

Dewey Square

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.

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