Pentatonics and Playing Out

Simple practice techniques to get a modern sound. A new course from Adam Maness for all instruments and all players.

Play like a modern master

Need to freshen up your playing?

Coming back to jazz and want to update your sound?

Start this easy-to-understand system today and play sharp, hip, modern pentatonic jazz language tonight.

Pianist Adam Maness walks you through exactly what to practice and how to practice it with his innovative Guided Practice Sessions so there’s no guess work, just results.

  • LEVEL 3
  • 16 videos
  • 3 hourS
  • Guided Practice SessionS
  • PDF WORKSHEETS
  • Subtitles: English

Meet Your Instructor

As Open Studio’s Creative Director, Adam Maness develops the curriculum of all of the courses, in addition to teaching his own popular course like Magic Voicing SystemPiano Fingering Independence and more.

Adam is a versatile pianist, arranger, composer, and producer whose performances, original compositions, and arrangements have been featured on numerous recordings and on national and international radio and television broadcasts. He is best known as co-founder and composer for the genre-bending chamber ensemble, The 442s.

Course Contents

Lessons

  • Intro
  • Pentatonics
  • Triad+1 Lesson

?Take the Coltrane?

  • Guided Practice Session #1
  • Guided Practice Session #2
  • Guided Practice Session #3
  • Guided Practice Session #4

?Solar?

  • Guided Practice Session #1
  • Guided Practice Session #2
  • Guided Practice Session #3
  • Guided Practice Session #4

?So What?

  • Guided Practice Session #1
  • Guided Practice Session #2
  • Guided Practice Session #3
  • Guided Practice Session #4

?Groovin? High?

  • Guided Practice Session