Welcome to the Jazz Piano MasterClass 'Lesson a Day' Page!
Welcome to the Jazz Piano MasterClass 'Lesson a Day' page.
The Jazz Piano MasterClass is a fully featured instructional music program containing interactive piano lessons. Master jazz pianist Miles Black is your teacher in a software program designed to illustrate basic skills to the beginning pianist while enhancing the skills of more advanced pianists.
You'll be studying over 60 topics such as Roots and Shells, Block Chords, Stride Piano, Playing the Blues, Scales, Common Progressions, Improvisation and more. All the lessons are accompanied by practice exercises, backing tracks, and are further illustrated with 11 tunes included in the program.
Full program includes:
- Digitally recorded audio lessons covering complete topics.
- On-screen piano keyboard shows you which notes are being played.
- Notes are color coded by hands.
- Focus on any section with the versatile loop feature.
- Print all the lessons and leadsheets (chords, and notation) to study anytime.
- 10 Complete songs played with techniques from the lessons.
- Learn at your own pace!
- Jump to any position in the lesson.
- Jukebox mode for continuous play.
- Mark and play your favorite lessons.
- Play along with the lesson/exercise in real-time on your MIDI piano.
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Jazz Piano Master Class Lesson-a-Day - The Lessons...
Note: These files do not reflect the full program, they are audio only and do not provide the full experience of the Jazz Piano MasterClass CD-ROM, such as printable notation and the on-screen fret-board. You can find out more about the full program by visiting the Jazz Piano MasterClass product page.
Lesson List
- Lesson 1: Program Introduction [Duration - 1:20]
- Lesson 2: Tune Discussion [Duration - 1:36]
- Lesson 3: Roots & Shells [Duration - 6:48]
- Lesson 4: Roots & Shells - Shells That Are Tricky [Duration - 8:07]
- Lesson 5: Walking Basslines [Duration - 5:34]
- Lesson 6: Adding Shells With Walking Basslines [Duration - 7:07]
- Lesson 7: Chord Voicings [Duration - 4:33]
- Lesson 8: Stride Piano [Duration - 6:26]
- Lesson 9: Block Chords [Duration - 5:18]
- Lesson 10: Block Chords, Continued [Duration - 4:52]
- Lesson 11: Drop '2' Block Chords [Duration - 3:56]
- Lesson 12: The MIDI Exercise Files [Duration - 0:23]
- Lesson 13: Pop Piano Styles [Duration - 13:16]
- Lesson 14: Role of Piano in Pop Music [Duration - 7:10]
- Lesson 15: Pop Piano Accompaniment [Duration - 71:3]
- Lesson 16: Pop - Soloing in a Trio Situation [Duration - 6:01]
- Lesson 17: How to Improvise Over Pop Tunes [Duration - 2:09]
- Lesson 18: Basic Blues [Duration - 4:11]
- Lesson 19: Blues Turnarounds [Duration - 5:20]
- Lesson 20: Minor Blues [Duration - 5:01]
- Lesson 21: Advanced Minor Blues [Duration - 7:46]
- Lesson 22: Playing Intros [Duration - 17:06]
- Lesson 23: Pop Intros [Duration - 11:51]
- Lesson 24: Trio Intros [Duration - 18:47]
- Lesson 25: The Major Scale [Duration - 3:10]
- Lesson 26: Modes Built From the Major Scale [Duration - 7:03]
- Lesson 27: The Dorian Mode [Duration - 3:31]
- Lesson 28: Mixolydian Mode [Duration - 3:13]
- Lesson 29: The II -V- I Progression [Duration - 5:15]
- Lesson 30: II-V-I Progressions in a Minor Key [Duration - 5:53]
- Lesson 31: The Phrygian Scale [Duration - 3:54]
- Lesson 32: The Lydian Scale [Duration - 4:37]
- Lesson 33: The Diminished Scale [Duration - 4:36]
- Lesson 34: The Blues Scale [Duration - 4:03]
- Lesson 35: The Whole Tone Scale [Duration - 1:32]
- Lesson 36: The Lydian b7 Scale [Duration - 1:18]
- Lesson 37: The Different Dominant 7th Scales [Duration - 4:11]
- Lesson 38: The Pentatonic Scale [Duration - 5:16]
- Lesson 39: 2-Handed Comping Concepts (Trio) [Duration - 5:16]
- Lesson 40: More Advanced 2-Handed Voicings [Duration - 4:30]
- Lesson 41: Comping With Drop 2 Voicings [Duration - 4:09]
- Lesson 42: Pentatonic Voicings [Duration - 4:58]
- Lesson 43: Block Chord Comping in a Trio Setting [Duration - 3:19]
- Lesson 44: improvising in a Trio Setting [Duration - 4:57]
- Lesson 45: improvisation With Chord Tones and Motifs [Duration - 4:52]
- Lesson 46: Working Through an Improvisation [Duration - 9:38]
- Lesson 47: Left-Hand Comping in a Trio Setting [Duration - 4:20]
- Lesson 48: LH Techniques of Well-Known Pianists [Duration - 4:03]
- Lesson 49: Endings - Part 1 - 4/4 Swing Tunes [Duration - 6:27]
- Lesson 50: Endings - Part 2 [Duration - 5:49]
- Lesson 51: Turnarounds to a I Chord [Duration - 5:26]
- Lesson 52: Turnarounds to a II Chord [Duration - 3:10]
- Lesson 53: Advanced Harmony [Duration - 4:40]
- Lesson 54: Diminished Concepts [Duration - 7:58]
- Lesson 55: Whole Tone Harmony [Duration - 2:47]
- Lesson 56: Parallel Harmony and Melodic Minor Scale Modes [Duration - 5:13]
- Lesson 57: Soloing - Creating Melodic Improvisations [Duration - 10:50]
- Lesson 58: Modal Playing and Pentatonics [Duration - 6:20]
- Lesson 59: Harmonizing a Melody in the Right-hand [Duration - 5:50]
- Lesson 60: Building Your Technique [Duration - 9:45]
- Lesson 61: Speed Development [Duration - 1:27]
- Lesson 63: Developing Repertoire [Duration - 1:38]
- Lesson 64: The MIDI Practice Exercises [Duration - 0:40]
Master Class Series