Solo Piano Basics: Medium Tempo
Every solo pianist needs to cover three essential elements: melody, chords, and bass. Learn how to play and create your very own solo piano arrangements in this course from Jeremy Siskind.
Your solo piano journey starts here
Every solo pianist needs to cover three essential elements: melody, chords, and bass.
The problem: you’ve got just two hands!
This course breaks down three different ways to divide the workload between your hands, based on the styles of masters like Bud Powell, Bill Evans, and Oscar Peterson.
Once finished, you’ll be able to create beautiful solo piano arrangements of your favorite medium-tempo tunes – and play them all on your own.
Meet Your Instructor
A highly-respected educator, Jeremy Siskind has written 13 publications with Hal Leonard, including the landmark instructional books Jazz Band Pianist and First Lessons in Piano Improv. His self-published instructional book, Playing Solo Jazz Piano.
Jeremy is also an Open Studio Pro mentor instructor, leading live weekly sessions.
Course Contents
Course content
- Introduction
- Two-Note Shells
- Two-Note Shells – Workout
- Two Note Shells – Etudes
- Three-Note Shells
- Three-Note Shells – Workout
- Three-Note Shells – Etudes
- Left-Hand Shuttle
- Left-Hand Shuttle – Workout
- Left Hand Shuttle – Etude
- Left Hand Bass – Right Hand Chords
- Left Hand Bass – Right Hand Chords – Etude
- Left Hand Bass – Right Hand Chords – Workout
- Final Thoughts
