Would you like to learn to improvise at the piano? I can help you to achieve this, whether your preferred style is jazz, blues, pop or funk. Perhaps you just want to sit down and play a tune in your own style.

I work with people that have already had some playing experience but wish to discover a more creative approach. You won't need to be a good reader but some knowledge of scales is a pre- requisite.

   
   


Objectives

To read and play a tune with your right hand and accompany it with your left with the use of chord symbols. This eradicates the need to read the bass clef.

To learn the scales and modes that will enable you to improvise around any tune.

To understand and utilize chord symbols in a musical way. You will never again be bemused by the sight of Bb7+9.

To understand the basics of jazz theory. We will begin with voicings and the 2,5,1 chord sequence: the key to most jazz 'standards'.


By the end of lesson 1 you will be playing a 12 bar blues and from there we will follow your preferred style.

My fee for piano tuition is £40 per hour.

Please email me to book a lesson.

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