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Practicing Jazz Piano

Structure – Practicing Jazz Piano

Practicing Jazz Piano

├─ Piano Technique & Fundamental Skills

│ ├─ Posture, Relaxation & Hand Position

│ ├─ Time, Tempo & Metronome Work

│ ├─ Finger Independence & Articulation

│ └─ Voicing Melodies (RH) over Simple Shells (LH)

├─ Jazz Scales & Vocabulary

│ ├─ Major / Natural Minor / Harmonic Minor

│ ├─ Modes (Dorian, Mixolydian, Lydian, etc.)

│ ├─ Blues Scale & Pentatonics

│ └─ II–V–I Scale Practice in All Keys

├─ Jazz Chords & Harmony

│ ├─ Shell Voicings (3–7, 7–3)

│ ├─ Guide Tones & Voice Leading

│ ├─ Drop-2 & Rootless Voicings

│ └─ Common Progressions (II–V–I, Turnarounds)

└─ Improvisation Practice

├─ Motivic Development

├─ Call & Response Phrasing

├─ Licks Library & Transcription

└─ Improvising Over Standards