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Improvise like a Jazz Cat
Unlock the secrets of jazz piano improvisation â even if youâve never improvised before! This is a special package in a series of other complete courses we offer. With "Improvise Like a Jazz Cat", you'll get a taste of what Gotham Music Lab is and, hopefully, get a good start to your music journey. Youâll receive selected lessons from different courses, helping you explore and discover what youâd like to dive into next.
Jazz Theory Series 1
The Jazz Theory Series 1 is a comprehensive course divided into five modules, meticulously designed to provide a solid foundation and advanced insights into jazz theory. This series addresses major and minor key harmonies, II-V variations, Roman numeral analyses, and chord resolutions. The course is supplemented with a detailed 67-page workbook for hands-on learning.
Improv Series
This comprehensive 29-lesson series takes you from the foundations of improvisation to advanced techniques used by jazz professionals. Starting with the basics of diatonic and parallel major modes, you'll learn to improvise over major, minor, and dominant 7th chords before mastering the ii-V-I progression. As the series advances, you'll explore melodic minor modes, blues variations, rhythm changes, and sophisticated line construction. With practical exercises on standards like âI Remember Aprilâ and âAutumn Leaves,â each lesson builds your fluency, creativity, and confidence as an improviser.
Hip Tips
Dive into the "Hip Tips" series for pocket-sized tricks that'll leave listeners in awe. Hip tips are18 individual applications that can immediately enhance your playing! Discover quick techniques to instantly elevate your music, adding that special flair. From sweeping lines to swirling piano textures, every tip is a game-changer. Elevate your playing and get that đ± reaction every time!
Comping Series
This comprehensive course focuses on enhancing comping skills through five detailed lessons. Students will explore ways to vary a ii-V-I progression using substitutions and added chords, develop awareness of dynamics, register, and textures to create contrast, and master rhythmic concepts for placing chords on downbeats and upbeats. Additionally, the course covers the use of guide tones for strong voice-leading in chord progressions and offers insights into rhythmic approaches for left-hand comping during solos.
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Immersion Lessons
These outlines give you a hands-on sense of the pieceâs rhythm, shape and energy right away â so you can connect with the music itself, not just the notes on the page.
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Keyboard Skills
This beginner-friendly course covers the essentials of keyboard skills in five structured lessons. Students will learn the basics of half and whole steps, major scale construction, and the formation of basic triads. They'll explore intervals, practice triads through the cycle of ascending 4ths, and master triad inversions. The course concludes with constructing and understanding six basic 7th chords in root position, providing a solid foundation for further keyboard studies.
