Beginner Jazz Workouts 1 in Ab – mDecks Music
A beginner-friendly guided jazz piano workout in A♭ that builds diatonic harmonic maps and introduces jazz voicings, guide tones, and practical groove tools.
This lesson walks you through a two-part workout in A♭: section one orients you with diatonic seventh chords, drop voicings, inversions, and circle-of-fifths motion to build a clear harmonic map. Section two adds jazz vocabulary—one-seven shell voicings, guide tones, voice-leading, dominant tensions, time feel (metronome on 2 and 4), and walking bass ideas—plus an exploration of major7/major6 equivalence and when to avoid certain colors against melodies. Emphasis is on training ears, hands, and harmonic intuition so you can handle secondary dominants and 2–5–1 motion in any key, not just common key centers.
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