Jazz Piano Skills 101 

Welcome to Day 3 of Jazz Piano Skills 101!

By now you should be familiar with some basic dominant voicings so we’re going to move on to two of the most common progressions in jazz, the major and minor ii-V-I. Since this is this only a five-day course we chose to give you two voicing options for each of the major and minor progressions that appear in our tune, “Winter Trees”, a contrafact of the well know jazz standard, "Autumn Leaves".

As always, you should practice these out-of-time first, and then when you're ready, play them in-time using a metronome. We chose these set of changes specifically because you will see them over and over in countless other jazz standards and songs of other genres. 

You’ve already mastered some great voicings over the blues and now you’re getting a handle on the most common progressions in jazz, tomorrow we’ll finish learning the rest of the progressions in “Winter Trees” and we’ll even get into our first chord substitution, the tritone sub!

Kevin