Tritones & Phat Chords

Lesson Run Time: 106 minutes / Release Date: 07/21/2009

Learn how to effectively use tritones to add spice to your arrangements. I’ll also teach you how to create fuller, richer chords with Upper Structure Triads and Quartal voicings.

Other Chapters in this Piano Lesson:

Introduction
What is a tritone?
What is a substitution?
Chords that use tritone subs
Tritones and the bass
V7 to I example bII7 to I
ii – V7 – I example ii – bII7 – I
Dominant vs. Tritone resolution
Available tensions on Dom 7
Voicings with quartals
Inverting quartals
Tensions that work well together
Voicings with U.S.T.
Using the U.S.T chart
Using the quartals chart
Applying to Abide With Me


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New Age Piano 2

Lesson Run Time: 42 minutes / Release Date: 02/16/2013

In this multi-part “mini course” I will show you how to create beautiful new-age progressions. In this part we will focus on alternate bass motion and fluidity of chords. The next part will dive into improvisation. Each part will come out a few weeks apart.

Other Chapters in this Piano Lesson:

Introduction.mp4
Creating a progression.mp4
Changing the bass.mp4
Bass exercises.mp4
Improvisation exercises.mp4


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Gospel Piano Riffs 1

Lesson Run Time: 63 minutes / Release Date: 11/03/2012

The Gospel Piano Licks series will show you how to play gospel-flavor licks along with bassline accompaniment. In this first part, we are going to focus on learning a few basslines and chord patterns. We are also going to cover how to approach a new or “foreign” key and generate “key tones” that will allow you to more quickly improvise in a new key.

Other Chapters in this Piano Lesson:

Introduction
Get The Feel For a New Key
Easy Bassline
Drop Bassline
Bassline And Chords
Extended Bassline
Easy Bassline in Octaves
Drop Bassline in Octaves
Extended Bassline in Octaves
Extended Bassline Groove


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Phat Chords

Lesson Run Time: 73 minutes / Release Date: 11/17/2008

Other Chapters in this Piano Lesson:

Introduction
Minor 7 (add 9) chord
Minor 7 (add 11) chord
*mini* Clusters
The *wide* minor
Breaking up the *wide* minor
No-fifth minor
Minor scales
Groove on minor scales
Funky minor 6
Altered Dominants
Beefed Up Triad
Major 7 (add 9) chord
Putting it all together


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Funky Piano

Lesson Run Time: 72 minutes / Release Date: 12/01/2009

Learn how to create some funky piano grooves using different 16th-note rhythms, chord progressions and shifting accents.

Other Chapters in this Piano Lesson:

Introduction
Sixteenth-note breakdown
Harmonic progressions
Broken sixteenth-note chords
Bassline motion
Right-hand chord infusion
Shifting accents (1)
Shifting accents (2)
Triad infusion
Where to go from here


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