Goldsmiths, University of London
- Start Date: 04 Jan, 2021
- 6 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Discover jazz improvisation on the piano, and learn to play and improvise on the blues and a jazz standard.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Introduction
Introduction Video
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Learn to play jazz piano, from the blues to a jazz standard.
On this course, you’ll get started with jazz piano by learning the basic concepts and prepare to play modern jazz piano in a group.
You’ll delve into the four routes to improvisation and deepen your understanding of the nature of jazz and blues to build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to improvise on piano.
Explore the blues on jazz piano
Improvisation may look off the cuff, but it requires a lot of foundational knowledge. To learn jazz improvisation, you’ll need to understand its influences and different styles first.
This course will get you well acquainted with blues, and you’ll learn why it’s so integral to jazz piano.
You’ll learn and compare the three principal chords and scales of jazz and classical music, and play open sevenths in root position. You’ll get acquainted with the F blues and voiced sevenths, and play along using the F American blues scale, seventh scales, and full blues scale.
Grow your knowledge of jazz improvisation theory, including the four ways to improvise
Using the diminished chord and scale will take your improvisation to the next level. You’ll learn about motivic, scalic chordal and special improvisation, along with some more fundamentals: the major seventh, the lonian scale and basic voicings, before playing and improvising.
Further exercises will include playing along with jazz standards like the Blue Room and working to improvise on the themes using your new knowledge and skill set.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a foundational understanding of the blues, and how it relates to jazz improvisation – which is crucial to properly learn jazz piano.
This course is for any keen pianist, but will be particularly useful for university or college piano students who want to improve their improvisational skills. The course requires a basic ability to read music and play the piano, and expects a familiarity with scales.
You’ll need to have access to a piano or keyboard and a computer, tablet or smart phone set up next to it.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
Goldsmiths, University of London
Founded in 1891, Goldsmiths, University of London is an institution with a rich academic history, known for its creative approach.
Its 9,000 students are based on campus in the heart of south east London’s New Cross community, studying undergraduate, postgraduate, teacher training and return-to-study courses in the arts and humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, computing, and entrepreneurial business and management.
Goldsmiths is in the UK’s top 25 universities for the quality of its research (Research Excellence Framework, THE research intensity ranking).
It has been recognised as one of the UK’s top creative and political universities, as voted for by students (Which? University 2014), and in 2014 was ranked first in London for high quality and helpful staff by the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey.
Goldsmiths has made a huge impact on popular culture. Seven winners of the Turner Prize – and almost a quarter of those shortlisted for the award since it began – have been former Goldsmiths students, while others have gone on to receive Oscars, Mercury Music prizes, Ivor Novellos and BAFTAS.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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