6 January 2025 - 31 March 2025 ( 21 hours, 12 weeks )
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Waterloo Centre
A course for jazz for pianists at around grade 3 (ABRSM) standard or higher, with around 1 year’s experience of playing jazz piano. A great opportunity to build on skills acquired in the first year of playing, including more advanced repertoire, further harmonic skills and comping strategies.
You will be playing the piano on your own and will also be listening to other students and the tutor playing. You will also listen to musical examples and do some singing and clapping exercises. Information will be delivered verbally, backed up by handouts, videos and by practical demonstration and your own participation in the activities. Constructive and supportive feedback from your tutor will be given throughout the course to help you progress with your jazz piano studies.
You must have grade 3 (ABRSM) or equivalent practical piano skills or above. The ability to read piano music notation would definitely be an advantage but if you can’t do that it will be necessary to at least be able to study the notated melody line and chord progressions on the handouts and / or by listening to recordings of the music at home. You will also need to have completed Morley Jazz Piano 2A or at least have equivalent experience in playing and improvising jazz piano.
An ability to play piano music with both hands or an ability to play piano by ear with both hands or an ability to read a top melody line with chord symbols below.
A piano to practise at home. Manuscript paper, notebook and writing materials.
