Learn Jazz Piano

Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course would suit any interested pianist, but may be of particular interest to university or college piano students studying music. You can use the hashtag #Jazzpiano to talk about this course on social media.

• Additional blues sequences and ballads in jazz including the jazz standards “Body And Soul”, “Round Midnight” and “Blue In Green”
• Claves, Afro-Cuban tunes, Bossa Novas, Montunos, even quavers and the jazz standards “A Night In Tunisia”, “Recordame”, “Blue Bossa” and “The Girl From Ipanema”
• Intoduction to jazz funk and the jazz standards “Little Sunflower” and “Cantaloupe Island” and the other jazz influences third stream, free jazz and improvised music
• Special devices and comping and the jazz standards “Beautiful Love” and “My Romance”
• Putting it all together
• 40 minute solo piano concert by Ray d’Inverno
• 90 minute concert from the “Ray d’Inverno Trio”