Here are 6 sick runs and arpeggios you guys to steal and practice for adding to your improvisation arsenal. Learning these will seriously up your improv vocabulary and help you take your skills to the next level. I would also recommend trying to apply these in context when you're soloing over different chord progressions. See if you can make small changes to them to make them work over different chords. You'll be surprised by how versatile and useful these are. Download "30 Sick Runs & Arpeggios" here: http://jazzpianoconcepts.com/store If you're a pianist, composer, producer or musical entrepreneur looking to take your music and/or career to the next level as quickly and effectively as possible, book a free strategy session to see how I can help: https://www.neojazzacademy.com/discovery​ Click here and sign up for the email list for free exercises: http://jazzpianoconcepts.com/subscribe​ Check out my modern course about the Neo Jazz Piano Method here: https://www.jazzpianosecrets.com​​ For quick daily tips and tricks, follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/noahkellman Facebook: facebook.com/noahkellmanmusic

A quick stride piano tutorial focusing on tips and tricks for how to sound like an authentic stride pianist. For more tips and lessons, visit http://www.jazzpianoconcepts.com. I also offer live, online private lessons. Email me at JazzPianoConcepts@gmail.com!

This lesson demonstrates 10 Hip Hop / Neo Soul / R'n'B Piano Exercise Patterns that focus on different aspects of improving your skill and technique. Learning these in all keys will help you sound like greats like Robert Glasper, Anomalie, Rob Araujo, and others who achieve that modern, improvised neo soul piano sound. PDF available for instant download here: http://jazzpianoconcepts.com/store

These hand independence exercises for jazz piano are designed to improve finger speed, hand separation and your overall ability to play with two hands. Whether or not jazz is your focus, you will learn to play piano with both hands in this lesson! As a Brad Mehldau fan, I've always been fascinated by his ability to play with two hands at once, improvising with his left hand while his right executes a complicated ostinato. If you want to learn how to play like Brad Mehldau, this video will really help you build on your hand separation ability, and these exercises are inspired by the jazz piano sound. Instantly download 40 Killer Hand Independence Exercises here: http://jazzpianoconcepts.com/store 2:45 - Exercise 1 3:02 - Exercise 2 3:20 - Exercise 3 4:45 - Exercise 4 5:46 - Exercise 5 7:55 - Exercise 6 9:15 - Exercise 7

If I had to leave you with just one single secret to maximizing your progress for learning jazz improvisation and piano in general, it would be what we talk about in this tutorial. Mental practice is often overlooked, and there are so many different ways of practicing AWAY from the piano, or from your instrument. I went a full year without being able to play and somehow still made a ton of progress... maybe even more than I would have had I been practicing physically. Sign up for a free strategy call here: https://www.neojazzacademy.com/strategycall My Jazz Piano Secrets course just closed! Sign up for the waitlist here for first dibs on a spot next time it opens: https://join.jazzpianosecrets.com Get specialized exercises here: https://jazzpianoconcepts.com/store Free stuff here: https://jazzpianoconcepts.com/subscribe

Add these 8 diminished licks and patterns to your jazz piano vocabulary ASAP! "20 Exercises for Mastering Diminished Vocabulary" available at the following link: http://jazzpianoconcepts.com/store If you're a pianist, composer, producer or musical entrepreneur looking to take your music and/or career to the next level as quickly and effectively as possible, book a free strategy session to see how I can help: https://www.neojazzacademy.com/discovery Click here and sign up for the email list for free exercises: http://jazzpianoconcepts.com/subscribe Check out my modern course about the Neo Jazz Piano Method here: https://join.jazzpianosecrets.com For quick daily tips and tricks, follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/noahkellman Facebook: facebook.com/noahkellmanmusic

Here are 5 exercises to help you master the "modern" jazz piano sound. These progressions and techniques will give you some new tools to add to your arsenal with a focus on achieving a modern sound. If you're a pianist, composer, producer or musical entrepreneur looking to take your music and/or career to the next level as quickly and effectively as possible, book a free strategy session to see how I can help: https://www.neojazzacademy.com/discovery Click here and sign up for the email list for free exercises: http://jazzpianoconcepts.com/subscribe Check out my modern course about the Neo Jazz Piano Method here: https://join.jazzpianosecrets.com For quick daily tips and tricks, follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/noahkellman Facebook: facebook.com/noahkellmanmusic

In this short jazz piano lesson, you will learn a great warm up exercise to use before each time you sit down to play or practice. You are essentially cycling through the major bebop scale and its relative harmonic minor scale in all keys. For a PDF of the exercise, click here: http://jazzpianoconcepts.com/2013/09/21/great-jazz-warm-up-part-1-bebop-scale-cycle/ For Skype lessons, email me at jazzpianoconcepts@gmail.com. For more tips and lessons, visit http://www.jazzpianoconcepts.com.