Learn Jazz Piano: II. Improvising on Jazz Standards
Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Start Date: 04 Jan, 2021
  • 6 weeks
  • Study Content: Videos


Improve your jazz improvisation with this course on jazz piano, where you’ll learn to play along to bass and drum soundtracks.

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.

Start improvising jazz piano


Good improvisation draws on a range of tools and techniques to respond to existing beats and music whilst adding your own unique interpretations.


Understand and apply the basics of jazz improvisation


This course will teach you the art of improvisation in modern jazz, and give you the skills to improvise over a minor blues sequence and through rhythm changes.


You’ll respond to different pieces of music, and build your confidence and fluency when improvising.


Explore blues and jazz theory


You’ll delve into both the practical and theoretical side of music as you study tracks by John Coltrane.


You’ll also discover modal jazz and its importance, with a specific focus on the songs ‘The Clock of Keys’ and its application in ‘All the Things You Are’.


Discover jazz standards


The final sections of the course will introduce you to, two jazz standards and develop your understanding of the inner workings of improvisation to a higher level.


By the end of the course, you’ll have a good understanding of how to improvise on jazz standards, through a mix of theory and practice. You’ll get to grips with improvising over rhythm changes and playing left hand voicings in three different ways.


This course requires a basic ability to read music, play the piano, and familiarity with scales. It may be of particular interest to university and college piano students studying music or jazz piano.


You’ll need access to a piano or keyboard, and have a computer, tablet or smartphone set up next to it.


You’ll need to have access to a piano or keyboard, and have 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.

You may be able to download course materials after enrolling in this course. If not, all of the necessary course materials provided by the course instructor will be available on the provider's course page.
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