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WHY & HOW Blues & Pentatonic Scales Work Over Almost EVERYTHING
In this lesson, we explore why these two scales—Pentatonic and Blues—are so versatile and how they can beautifully fit over a range of...


5 Piano Techniques that I use MOST often
In this tutorial, I break down 5 go-to piano techniques that have shaped my playing over the years—from fluttering chords and spread...


How to Extend a Major, Minor and Dominant 7th chord using Voicings & Jazz Harmony
Learn how to make simple Major, Minor and Dominant 7th chord’s more colorful using beautiful voicing techniques and jazz music theory...


🎹 A Healthy Reality Check for Figuring Out Chords by Ear 🎶
Over nearly two decades of teaching music, I've been asked countless questions about harmonic ear training, music theory, and developing...


The ALL IN ONE Harmonic Workout 🏋🏼♀️ Sing & Play 🎹
Practice all Inversions of Major & Minor Chords around the Circle of Fifths and Train your Ear at the same time by singing approach and...


All About Intervals - Learn, Classify & Practice with Ease
In this Music Theory Tutorial, you'll explore the classification of musical intervals from multiple perspectives. Learn about ascending,...


How to Connect ANY Musical Note with ANOTHER with a CHORD
Learn to harmonize music using chords that aren't limited to being diatonic (belonging to a specific Major or Minor scale). In this...


Shoot your question part 2
📚 Receive Notation & my Handwritten notes for this lesson and many more on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jasonzac We recently...


Just ONE Chord on the Piano and so much COLOR with Thirds, Cadences, Extensions, Voicings & more..
Using just a simple Major or Minor Triad, we can make a single chord sound beautiful on the Piano with a variety of techniques. A lot of...


A Few Things You Might Not Know about THREE NOTE Chords (Triads)
In this Piano & Music Theory Tutorial, we learn 3 note chord formation techniques that go slightly beyond the diatonic “textbook” and...


Country Piano Walk ups & Walk downs 🧗🏽♀️🎹 with Grace Notes & Ghosts - EASY Stepwise Tutorial
📚 Download my Handwritten Notes, Staff Notation & MIDI for the lesson and support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/87541938?...


SECRETS to Solo Piano Accompaniment using Arpeggios and Choral Harmony
⬇️ Download the stepwise notation of each variation and support us on our Patreon channel: https://www.patreon.com/posts/73704918?pr=true...


How to REHARMONIZE “What a Friend we have in Jesus” - Piano Tutorial by Elisha Zimbeva
Elisha Zimbeva, a keyboardist and music director from Zimbabwe, is here to give us a lesson on reharmonizing ‘ What a Friend we have in...


The “Secret” Chords of Music - Fully Diminished vs Half Diminished (Min7b5)
In this Music Theory lesson on Harmony, we study the formation and functions of the full diminished and half-diminished chords and then...


The 2-5-1 JAZZ PIANO Chord Progression
Download Jason Zac's 15-page downloadable PDF copy of the entire 2-5-1 Jazz Piano Chord Progression series and help support our channel:...


Left Hand Techniques - Arpeggios - Nathaniel School of Music
In this series, Jason Zac shows a number of GO TO left hand patterns which can be used to develop groove and harmony while freeing up the...


Left Hand Techniques - Broken Chords - Nathaniel School of Music
In this series, Jason Zac shows a number of GO TO left hand patterns which can be used to develop groove and harmony while freeing up the...


Learn a Song by EAR | The Bassline
Our music faculty, Jason Zac, breaks down the chords for a popular song and shows how to figure it out on your own using just the bass...


Ear Training - Harmonic - Identifying 7ths - Part 2
Given a diatonic triad (major or minor), here's an exercise to identify the seventh in a chord (dominant and major 7th).
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