Learn jazz piano: Becoming a jazz piano musician
Round off your jazz piano skills with this in-depth Goldsmiths, University of London course in jazz piano improvisation.
Who is the course for?
This course requires a basic ability to read music, play the piano and familiarity with scales. They 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.
What topics will you cover?
Additional blues sequences and ballads in jazz including the jazz standards “Body And Soul”, “Round Midnight” and “Blue In Green”
Claves, Afro-Cuban tunes, Bossa Novas, Montunos, even quavers and the jazz standards “A Night In Tunisia”, “Recordame”, “Blue Bossa” and “The Girl From Ipanema”
Intoduction to jazz funk and the jazz standards “Little Sunflower” and “Cantaloupe Island” and the other jazz influences third stream, free jazz and improvised music
Special devices and comping and the jazz standards “Beautiful Love” and “My Romance”
Putting it all together
40 minute solo piano concert by Ray d’Inverno
90 minute concert from the “Ray d’Inverno Trio”
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Develop your understanding of blues sequences and playing ballads
Explore the jazz influences of Latin jazz, jazz funk, third stream, free jazz and improvised music
Investigate the fourth route to improvising of special devices
Apply your knowledge of chords to comping behind soloists
Investigate the topics of pianistic and non-pianistic influences, musical resources including playalongs, how to learn standards by heart, how to practice, transcription, composition, group formation, recording and gig getting
Perform many of the 75 tunes we meet in the course
