Jazz Piano for Beginners: Functional Harmony (Lesson 5)

In this Jazz Piano online course I will bring you from the level of a complete jazz beginner up to the level of an intermediate/advanced pianist. We will talk about both theory and applications, and cover concepts ranging from chords and scales, to diatonic harmony, voicings, substitutions, soloing, tensions, and much more. Course playlist: In the fifth lesson we will start delving in jazz theory, also known as diatonic or functional harmony. This theory underlies almost all of western music, and it shows you WHY jazz chord progressions are the way they are. It’s so important that it’s safe to say that without it, you cannot understand jazz. I will break it - and its main ideas - down in this lesson. We’ll get back to it and embellish it as we go along. TABLE OF CONTENTS 0:00 Introduction 1:07 Theory 4:34 Word of caution 5:58 Basic idea #1 7:41 Basic idea #2 10:44 Application 16:32 P