LEVEL 2- INTERMEDIATE

• Continual development in jazz improvisation
• Continued development in piano technique and reading skills (if necessary) 
• Continual development in melodic and harmonic skills through theory and practice
• How to function inside a jazz combo
• Continual development in ear training and listening skills
• Training in reading "head" charts

Piano Technique:

• Through Card Exercises (CE), playing closest pos. scales to achieve scale independence.
• Continual use of Hanon exercises (if necessary)
• Continued sight reading (if necessary)
• Development of "head chart" reading technique
• Through CE and metronome, learning basic 7th chords (left and right hand guide tones)

Combo Functionality:

• Basic rhythmic "comping" techniques
• Focus on harmonic series and how to build functional, well-balanced chords

• How to keep time and listen "beyond yourself"
• Introduction and development of jazz repertoire

Jazz Theory

• Circle of 5ths and diatonic chord harmony
• Basic 7th chords and guide tones
• The role of (b7 to 3) in chord progressions
• V-I, ii-V-I, and I-vi-ii-V-I chord progressions

Ear Training

• Introduction to transcribing, with assignments in transcribing easy melodies and chords

Jazz Improvisation

• Dorian, Mixolydian, and Aeolian modes and their use
• Learning bebop scales and their use
• Identification and learning basic standards, jazz standards, and how to use chord and scale skills to improvise over them
• Understanding grooves, feel, and placement of beat
• Blues- traditional and jazz versions