Jazz Piano

Minimum Proficiency:

• Ability to read music - chords, melodic lines
• Know and play all major and minor scales
• Know and play all types of seventh chords
• Calculate intervals and chord extensions quickly, including alterations
• Knowledge of basic jazz and blues forms
• Working knowledge of one hand and two hand rooted and rootless chord voicings
• Ability to read and play jazz or Latin music syncopations
• Be able to play a jazz standard from a lead sheet in solo piano or trio style, including playing the melody, improvisation, and chord ‘comping’

Audition: Contact instructor directly.