In this Jazz Piano online course I will bring you from the level of a complete jazz beginner up to the level of an intermediate/advanced pianist. We will talk about both theory and applications, and cover concepts ranging from chords and scales, to diatonic harmony, voicings, substitutions, soloing, tensions, and much more. Course playlist:

   • Jazz Piano for Complete Beginners  

In the seventh lesson we will look at one of the most powerful ideas in harmony: tonicization. This is a fancy way of saying that we can consider any chord in a progression as the tonic in its own scale, effectively "mini-modulating" into the key of the target chord. This means, for example, that we can precede it with a subdominant to a dominant progression *in its own scale*, which creates a huge amount of harmonic options and variety. We will articulate these ideas, and then see how they can be used in practice by looking at some well known pop standards, such as Yesterday by the Beatles, as well as Just the Two of Us by Grover Washington Jr.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
1:48 Theory
5:01 Example
8:49 Applications
9:16 Yesterday
10:48 Just the Two of Us
14:13 Practice