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Your Complete Cocktail Piano Toolkit

🎡 Build Your Foundation

Practice Concepts

  • Chord Inversion Exercise
  • Practicing Rubato
  • Right Hand Chord Melody Exercise

🎹 14 Chord Voicing Techniques

The secret to professional sound

  • Economical 1-7 Chord Voicing
  • The 3-5-7-9 Chord Voicing
  • The 7-9-3-13 Dominant Chord Voicing
  • The 7-9-3-5 Chord Voicing & II-V-I Progression
  • Two-Hand II-V & II-V-I Patterns
  • Major 6 Chord Voicing
  • “Garland”ish Block Chord Technique
  • Shearing Block Chords
  • Open 7th Chord Voicing
  • Upper Structure Triads #1, #2, #3
  • The Drop 2 Chord Voicing
  • Becoming A Chord Minimalist

🎼 11 Killer Introductions

Start every song with confidence

  • One-Measure Ballad Introduction
  • Short Chromatic Intro/Ending
  • Short Ballad Introduction
  • Another Ballad Introduction
  • “Beginning” Introduction
  • “Ending” Introduction
  • I-vi-ii-V Introduction
  • Major 7 Ballad Introduction
  • Drop 2 Chord Voicing Introduction
  • Chromatic Introduction to I Chord
  • Concise Drop 2 Introduction

🎺 4 Professional Endings

Finish with style

  • Swing Ending
  • Ending With Harmonic Appeal
  • Classic Count Basie Ending
  • Tag Ending With Modulation

✨ 10 Chord Styling Strategies

Add sophistication instantly

  • Half Step Slide
  • Diminished Chord Entry
  • Deceptive Resolution
  • Chord Climbing
  • Ascending Line ClichΓ©
  • Parallel Harmony
  • Adding Harmonic Motion
  • Creating Harmonic & Rhythmic Momentum
  • Modal Harmony
  • I – VI7 – II – V Turnaround

🎸 8 Improvisation Techniques

Solo with confidence

  • Beginning Improvisation Using Chord Tones
  • Chord Tones: Your Safety Net
  • Easy Half Step Improvisation
  • Chromatic Enclosure
  • 1-5 Chromatic Approach
  • Creating An Improvisational Line
  • Making Use Of The Blues Scale
  • The V Major Pentatonic Scale

πŸ’« 16 Fills & Embellishments

Never run out of ideas

  • Arpeggio Embellishment
  • “Echo Effect” Piano Fill
  • Easy Piano Fill #1
  • Easy Piano Fill #2
  • Triad Straddle
  • Chromatic Melodic Approach
  • I – II Chord Filler
  • Drop 2 Chord Connector
  • Piano Fill In 10ths
  • Piano Fill In 10ths #2
  • Melodic Syncopation
  • Abstract Melody
  • Melodic “Mimick”
  • Short Arpeggio Fill
  • II-V Piano Fill
  • Erroll Garner Thirds

πŸ”„ 7 Chord Substitution Secrets

Reharmonize like a pro

  • Maj7 Chord Substitution
  • Half Diminished Substitution
  • Tritone Chord Substitution
  • b5 Chord Substitution
  • Diatonic Chord Substitution
  • Inserting The VI Chord
  • Whole Step Dominant Chord Substitution

πŸ‘ˆ 8 Left Hand Techniques

Build your foundation

  • Left Hand Swing Rhythm
  • Walking Bass Line – Step 1 (Primer)
  • Walking Bass Line – Step 2
  • Walking Bass Line – Step 3
  • Walking Bass Line – Step 4
  • Walking Bass Line – Step 5
  • Sweetening Those Triads
  • Left Hand Accompaniment: Ballads

🌟 3 Beginner Shortcuts

Sound pro from day one

  • Instant Cocktail Piano for Beginners
  • Jazzy Cocktail Piano (beginners)
  • Keep It Simple (and still sound “pro”)

🎡 5 Additional Styling Concepts

Expand your technique

  • Melodic Spotlight
  • Filled In Octaves
  • Melodic Delay
  • Third Hand Style
  • Pedal Point Tension

🎢 3 Rhythmic Styles

Master different feels

  • Jazz Waltz
  • Stride For Ballads
  • Pop/Soft Rock Songs

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