Learn Jazz piano video on YouTube

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This Learn Jazz Piano video on YouTube is a short recap about the relationship between a major scale and its seven chords.

Here are the 7th chords that belong to F major.

7 related chords in F major

Here’s a summary of the lesson content:

Lesson 1 – From scales to chords

• Soloing over the Pentatonic scale
• Mastering intervals
• The V – I concept
• One formula to construct all major scales
• 7 chords, one family

7 chords, 1 scale

Lesson 2 – Building a chord sequence

• Chord sequences
• The relative minor and its scales
• The family row of minor triads
• Soloing in a minor key

Lesson 3 –  Mastering every key

• The circle of 5ths
• How to play in any key
• Preview of the II-V-I sequence
• Introduction to the turnaround

Lesson 4 – Swing time

• Learning to swing
• The construction of 7th chords
• How to interpret chord symbols
• Shells – how not to upset the bass player

Lesson 5 – Walking 3s

• Turnarounds part 2: I – VI – II -V
• Walking 3s and 7s: the seeds of vertical improvisation.
• How to use passing notes.
• Voice leading

Lesson 6 – Extensions

• Extensions: how to use 9ths, 11ths and 13th.
• Know which extensions work with which chord.
• Voicing a chord using extensions.
• Introduction to Modes.

Lesson 7 – The II-V-I sequence

• Master the II – V – I sequence in all keys
• Seven soloing techniques over II – V – I
• Alterations: know your sharp 11 from your flat 13
•  Flat 9s and the diminished chord

Lesson 8 – How to comp

• Comp like a pro
• Find the best chord voicings
• Use the right extensions
• Build up to a five-note comp
• Explore rhythmic variations

Lesson 9 – Modes

• Know your Mixodydian from your Dorian
• Grasp the connection between modes and chords
• The art of modal soloing and comping
• How to play ‘So What’

Lesson 10 – Autumn Leaves part 1

• Playing your first standard
• Learning the melody
• The comp
• The shells
• The solo

Lesson 11 – Autumn Leaves part 2

• Taking Autumn Leaves to the next level
• How to fill out the melody
• Comping with alterations
• Soloing with vertical improvisation

Lesson 12 – The Blues part 1

Play with confidence over the blues.

• How to solo creatively
• The minor blues
• Blues in 12/8
  Plus lots of tips, tricks and licks!

Lesson 13 – The Blues part 2

• Taking the blues beyond the basics.
• Chord changes that turn blues into jazz.
• Lydian dominant & diminished scales.
• Rootess left-hand voicings.

Lesson 14 – Bebop blues

• Left hand 4-note rootless voicings
• Constructing the Bebop sequence.
• How to solo over a Bebop blues
• Comping over a Bebop blues

Lesson 15 – Rootless voicing

• Constructing left hand rootless voicings.
• Applying  rootless voicings to II-V-I and turnarounds.
• Adding the alterations: b9, b13 etc.

Lesson 16 – Tritone substitution

• Diminished theory
• Soloing over diminshed chords
• Using diminished scales over dominant 7ths
• Mastering tritone substitution

Lesson 17 – Putting it together

• Now put your knowledge to work!
• Combine learned techniques to play a jazz standard.
• Rootless voicings + tritone substitution
• Altered and diminished scales

Lesson 18 – Decoding a standard

• Analysis of ‘All The Things You Are.’
• How tunes are structured.
• Identifying key centres
• Connecting melody and chords
• How to learn tunes

Lesson 19 – Reharmonising a standard

• Chord substitution
• How to reharmonise a tune
• All The Thing You Are: advanced
• Take The A Train reharmonised

Lesson 20 – Rhythm Changes

• Next to a 12-bar blues, Rhythm Changes
  is the most important chord sequence in jazz.
  Master all its forms in this vital video lesson.

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