Build the foundational skills to unlock your creative freedom as an improviser. Check out these free samples from the course to see what you'll be learning!
In this course, you will learn to improvise over the seven chords of the major scale which are the foundation of all modern music. Check out these free samples from the course to see what you'll be learning!
In this free sample lesson from Introduction to Improvising on the Piano, we explore the landscape of our keyboard using the smallest interval in our musical system: the half step. We practice moving across our musical landscape, connecting all of the notes as one long unbroken chain of half steps.
In this free video lesson we will walk through the melody to "All of Me" and discover some of the lessons it can teach us as improvisers about the art of melodic phrasing.
In this video I explain all of the different IFR learning materials and how they fit together.
After completing the workshop Ear Training for Musical Creativity, you have two great paths available to you: expanding your melodic repertoire or moving on to recognizing chords and chord progressions.
The last chord of the major scale that we need to study is the seven chord which we write as 7-b5.
This is a very catchy progression that goes down in scale degrees from the 6- chord to the 3- chord.
In this module you are going to study chords 2- and 3- in the context of a minor key, where the 6- chord is the tonal center.
With this set of activities you will get to know the 3- chord more deeply by studying it in different contexts.