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What’s the last 5 percent?!? Enjoy these free piano lessons and tips from Piano With Jonny!A quick and comprehensive guide for understanding, practicing and applying chromatic neighbors in jazz piano improvisation for all levels.Captivate your audience with mysterious and awe-inspiring piano textures reminiscent of popular film scores using the dorian scale and 3 improv techniques.Learn slow jazz and blues piano improvisation right now!

Up a fourth back to that note and up a step okay and then I repeat this pattern on the F so I go up to step up and forth back to the same note up a step and you can literally do this up and down the piano to create lines now for more ideas on how to use patterns. PWJ offers regular courses, workshops which include teacher interaction, and challenges which are divided into a 4 week learning format.Lessons are combined into courses. In the August 2020 Live Q&A, Jonny will answer all of your questions about the piano and music in general. Smartsheets provide audio playback, light-up key notation, transposition, looping, and other learning tools.Lessons sheets break down a song into smaller learning sections. These courses are essential for playing all styles of music, especially jazz.With this structured Blues Learning Track, you’ll be guided step-by-step to your goal of becoming a confident blues pianist. How do you do this?Well, one of the sweetest fills you can use in Ragtime are Zez Confrey “ornaments”. Here is how to play a forward rag roll on a C Major chord:Notice that we are playing a big, 4-note C Major in our right hand, with the notes from the bottom C E G and C.  Now, in order to transform this chord into a rag roll, we break up, or arpeggiate the chord.In the case of the forward rag roll rhythm, the octaves played as quarter notes on beat one, followed by a series of 8th notes from beats 2 through the measure.Notice that the octaves punches are on beat 1, beat 2, and the “and of beat 3”. Lessons are combined into courses. Submit it below and we'll include an answer in our upcoming Q&A Submissions video.Let us know! PWJ offers regular courses, workshops which include teacher interaction, and challenges which are divided into a 4 week learning format.Lessons are combined into courses. Smartsheets provide audio playback, light-up key notation, transposition, looping, and other learning tools.Lessons sheets break down a song into smaller learning sections. Check it out!Notice that we are still arpeggiating a big C Major chord, but now we are playing the 8th notes at the beginning of the measure and the quarter notes at the end of the measure (remember that with the Forward Rag Roll the quarter notes were at the beginning and the 8th notes were at the end. This is the basic ornament technique, and you can do this on other chords.For example, if you applied an ornament to an F major chord, you would slide from Ab and D to A and C.  Pretty cool, huh?Johnny Hodges put together an excellent exercise for us to practice ornaments on every note of the C Major Scale. Up a fourth back to that note and up a step okay and then I repeat this pattern on the F so I go up to step up and forth back to the same note up a step and you can literally do this up and down the piano to create lines now for more ideas on how to use patterns. They are all instantly downloadable.Arrangements are through-composed pieces that are fully notated. I encourage you to take a simple melody link Mary Had a Little Lamb or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and try applying rag rolls to them.In fact, we’ve put together a ragtime & stride piano learning track for you to master these styles using various tunes and exercises. PWJ offers regular courses, workshops which include teacher interaction, and challenges which are divided into a 4 week learning format. Courses are comprised of lessons and are based on selected styles of music and learning focus topics.

PWJ offers regular courses, workshops which include teacher interaction, and challenges which are divided into a 4 week learning format.Lessons are combined into courses. Here are the first 4 measures to get you started:By the way, another excellent course for  applying rag rolls to a song is the Next, you are going to learn your final rag roll, most exciting roll of them all, the The Triplet Rag Roll is one of my favorite ragtime piano rolls, and it really sparkles when you play it. Well, look at where the melody notes are on measure 1. Piano With Jonny offers three core content types: Courses. Learn the higher-level foundations of harmony, rhythm, and two hand coordination.
Jonny has taster lessons on YouTube on his channel ‘Piano with Jonny’. Lessons are combined into courses. Courses are comprised of lessons and are based on selected styles of music and learning focus topics. They are on beat 1, beat 2, and the “and of beat 3”.On measure 2, the melody notes are on beat 1, the “and of beat 2”, and  beat 4.Isn’t that awesome?!? Essential chords & professional techniques for beginner, intermediate & advanced jazz pianists. PWJ offers regular courses, workshops which include teacher interaction, and challenges which are divided into a 4 week learning format.Lessons are combined into courses. Submit your request below and we'll add it to our workshop request list.Submit a video and get feedback from Jonny in the monthly Student Assessment.This page allows you to filter by content type, skill level and learning focus.Courses are comprised of lessons and are based on selected styles of music and learning focus topics.