Course Playlist:    • Jazz Piano for Complete Beginners  

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.

In the eleventh lesson I will cover key changes, or modulations. To modulate from one key to another is a fancy way of saying to change from one key to another. I'll discuss in-depth the most common way of doing so in jazz, which is by using a 5-1 or 2-5-1 to "prime" the listener, much like with tonicization. I'll show several examples, including Sunlight by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, and Overture by Anomalie. I'll also mention briefly two other, less systematic tools for modulating - chromatic motion, and melodic motifs.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:11 An example
1:09 Another example
1:40 How NOT to modulate
2:24 How to modulate
4:42 Sunlight
5:50 Using minor fourths
6:32 Multiple modulations
7:20 Using 5-1s
8:43 Overture
10:38 Chromatic motion
11:36 Melodic motifs