Welcome to the Jazz Tutorial podcast with Julian Bradley. Topics include: Jazz piano lessons Jazz theory lessons Jazz piano chord voicings Jazz improvisation Jazz scales Jazz piano chord progressions Beginner Jazz piano lessons Tritone substitution Julian Bradley is a Jazz pianist and teacher from the U.K. He has a masters degree in music, and loves sharing his passion for Jazz piano through online lessons.
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Side-Slipping for Jazz Piano. If your Jazz piano chords sound boring, try this instead
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What is Side-Slipping? Side-slipping is a technique used by Jazz pianists. It works by transposing the chord voicing you're playing up or down by a step (either a half-step or whole-step). By transposing the chord voicing like this, ' in parallel', you almost always move out of the key you're in, into a new key. This creates an interesting sounding…
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Jazz Piano Reharmonization. 3 Techniques for playing Jazz Standards
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What is Jazz Reharmonization? Reharmonization is when a Jazz musician changes the original chords of a song, and plays a different chord or chords of their own choosing. Reharmonization is a subtle form of composition, where the Jazz musician adds their own take to a well known Jazz standard. Reharmonization is a great way to add an interesting twi…
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4 Upper Structure Triads Every Jazz Pianist Needs to Know (chord voicing lesson)
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What is an Upper Structure Triad? Upper Structure Triads are a style of chord voicing used by Jazz pianists. Upper Structures are large voicings, consisting of 5-7 notes, and require two hands to play. In the left hand, the pianist plays the chord's root, 3rd, and 7th. And in the right hand, the pianist plays a major or minor triad (usually major),…
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Open Voicings for Jazz Piano. If your playing sounds muddy, try this instead
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What is an Open Voicing? Open voicings are when you take an ordinary 7th chord (that would normally be built in thirds), and you spread out its notes so that they span a wider range. Most open voicings span at least a 10th, if not a 12th, or even a two octave span. What are some types of Open Voicing that Jazz pianists use? Here are some open voici…
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Fourth Voicings for Jazz Piano. If your playing sounds bland, try this instead
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What is a Fourth Voicing? Fourth voicings are when you take an ordinary chord (that would normally be built in thirds), and you spread out its notes in fourths, instead of thirds. For example, C major 7 would normally be played C E G B, each note plays a third above the note below it. But you could play C major 7 using a fourth voicing, where you w…
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Jazz Piano Intros and Song Endings. This is how you add them to any Jazz Standard
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#5. Have you ever wondered how to intro a jazz song? Or how to end a jazz song? Don't worry - in this episode, we cover jazz piano intros and endings. I'll show you how to intro a song, and end a song in style. We cover 'turnarounds', and which scales to play from when writing a major song ending, versus when writing a minor song ending. By the end…
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Beginner Improvisation Lesson for Jazz Piano. If your improvisation sounds boring, try this
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Discover 3 jazz piano improvisation techniques to help you sound more professional today. In this episode I'll show you 'chord tone soloing', how to use the 1 3 5 7 9 of each chord to write authentic solos, the 'half-step below approach pattern', and how to use triplets to create interesting rhythms. By the end of this episode, you'll know 3 essent…
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Walking Bass Lines for Jazz Piano. If your playing sound bland, try this instead
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#7. Discover how to write an authentic walking bass line to any jazz song. In this episode, we'll discuss 'target notes', and how to move to each chord's root note using steps, leaps, and chromatic movement. I'll also show you how to practice walking bass lines over the ii-V-I progression. By the end of this lesson, you'll know how to write a profe…
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Jazz Analysis of 'Satin Doll'. This is how Jazz Standards work
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In this episode, you'll discover how jazz song harmony works. Today we look at song key signatures (flat keys and sharp keys), I'll show you how to quickly identify a song's 'home key'. I'll also explain modulation in jazz, and how jazz songs will move through different keys using the ii-V-I progression, before returning to the home key. This episo…
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Beginner Jazz Scales Method for Jazz Pianists. Use this simple rule to choose which scale to play over any Jazz chord
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#4. Have you ever wondered which scale you should be playing over any chord? In this episode, we cover jazz scales - and I'll show you a simple rule to follow when choosing which scale to play from. We'll cover the 'chord tone + whole-step' principle, and I'll show you which scale to play over each of the common chord types in jazz. This lesson is …
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Chord Extensions Lesson for Beginner Jazz Piano. If you're confused about the 13th, 6th, 9th, and 11th, this is how chord extensions work
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#2. In this episode, we'll look at chord extensions in jazz. You'll discover how to find the 9th, 11th, and 13th above any chord - whether it's a major chord, a minor chord, half-diminished, or other. You'll also discover how to find altered chord extensions - like flat 9ths, sharp 9ths, sharp 11ths, and flat 13ths. Put an end to your confusion whe…
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All The Jazz Chords Piano Players Need To Know. Major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, half-diminished, diminished 7, and minor major 7 chords explained
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#1. In this episode, we'll look at the six types of 7th chord found in jazz - including the major 7, minor 7, dominant 7, half-diminished, diminished 7, and the minor-major 7 chord. We'll also look at 6 chords - the major 6 and minor 6 chords, and how these differ to 7th chords. You'll also discover how to build these chords from all 12 notes (by c…
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