Having just recently retired (a young pensioner ), I finally decided to learn the piano after many years of humming and hahing and generally finding work as an excuse to delay it.
I like music of all sorts, but feel that the piano just calls out to have relaxing jazz standards played on it.
I love the sounds of the ‘big voicing’ chords, and look forward to achieving the same with my own 2 hands.
This learning path covers 9 beginner jazz standards which will help to build out your repertoire of songs.
We cover these 9 tunes throughout the PianoGroove courses and so learning the basic arrangement provides strong foundations upon which we can add more advanced theory and jazz harmonisation techniques.
Theory Lessons - Jazz Piano Foundations:
I also recommend the theory lessons in our Jazz Piano Foundations course:
This theory takes time to learn (scales, triads, 7th chords, 251 progressions) and so spend 50% of your practice time on the theory lessons, and 50% on the jazz standard studies highlighted above.
Big Chord Voicings
You mention that you love the sound of big chord voicings, so here are some late-beginner/early-intermediate jazz piano lessons which I think will be of interest to you:
In these lessons I explain when and where these voicings can be applied - and so try to apply them to the beginner jazz standard lessons that I outlined in the “Lead Sheet Fundamentals” learning path.
How To Ask Questions
If you have any questions, you can post in the “Comments” section of the lesson pages and that pings me a notification.
Click the link below for example and it will show you the Comment section which you will find on every lesson page on the website:
If you have a question specific to a lesson - that’s the best place to post it. You will also see the questions from other students and my answers which often contain useful information.