“Easy jazz piano” sounds crazy, because jazz is one thing it’s not supposed to be easy to play on the piano. But you’d be surprised how straightforward it can be to start improvising. In this tutorial we’re going to look at any easy improvisation you can play on any piano or keyboard. It starts off using just two easy jazz piano chords chords in the left hand, Cmaj7 and a rootless voicing of F13, put together in a four bar/four measure loop. In the right, we’re improvising on the Phrygian mode — specifically E Phrygian, which is all the white notes between E and E. We start off easy, improvising jazz rhythms on one note, then move on two using two notes, three notes, four notes… until we’ve got the whole scale going.
Then we move on to using five chords — Cmaj7, Bm7, Dm7, Em7 and F13 — in an eight bar loop. This is still relatively easy, especially as we’re sticking to the one octave Phrygian in the right, but if you’re a more confident pianist or keyboard player this is the point at which you could try adding other notes to your improvisation.
Don’t forget to check out my other jazz piano tutorials on YouTube, especially my series on Jazz Piano for Beginners, which starts fairly easy and moves on to more advanced material. You’ll find the playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpOuhygfD7QmN-lQYtSAULCvdomKraZ1S
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I hope you enjoy the tutorial and find that playing a bit of jazz piano is easier than you think. Don’t forget to “like” the video, subscribe to my YouTube channel (which has hundreds of free piano tutorials) and post a comment if you have a question or just want to say hello!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Improv demo
00:57 2 jazz piano chords
01:32 Easy chord loop
02:30 1 note jazz improvisation
03:51 Building up the improv
06:07 5 chord jazz loop
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