An interactive place to learn jazz and musicianship.

Learn

• Chord Symbols & Extensions - Read any chord symbol, including altered extensions, and see and hear it on the keyboard.
• Substitutions & Reharmonisation - Tritone subs, secondary dominants and passing chords, heard side by side with the original.
• Major Diatonic Harmony - The chords and modes of the major scale, and how each one sounds.
• Melodic Minor Harmony - The modern jazz colours of melodic minor, from Lydian dominant to altered.
• The Blues Evolution - From the three-chord blues to bebop changes, one step at a time.
• Upper Structures & Triad Pairs - Triads over shell voicings for rich, modern sounds.
• Scale Shapes & Pentatonics - Scale shapes for improvising, including major and minor pentatonics.

Workouts

• Major Mode Playalongs - Play each mode over a live band track in any key, with each instrument on its own track.
• Melodic Minor Mode Playalongs - The same approach for the melodic minor modes.
• Scale Patterns - Written patterns for your instrument and key, with chords for rhythm players and a band track.
• ii - V - I Trainer - Major and minor ii - V - Is through all 12 keys with backing.
• Dominant 7 Cycle of 5ths - Dominant chords around the cycle at one, two or four bars each.

Ear Training

• Interval Recognition - Hear and name the distance between two notes.
• Chord Quality Recognition - Tell major, minor, dominant and other chord types apart by ear.
• Cadence Recognition - Identify how phrases end and resolve.
• Major Mode Recognition - Recognise each major mode by its sound.
• Melodic Minor Modes - Recognise the melodic minor modes by their sound.

• Guide - What each instrument does in the common jazz grooves, with recordings to listen to.
• Groove Workout - Play along with each groove, muting or isolating any instrument, looped or for a set number of choruses.

• Walking Bass Lab - Build walking lines from roots, chord tones and approach notes.
• Guitar Comping Lab - Comping rhythms and voicings, in standard notation or TAB.
• Piano Voicing Lab - Voicings, inversions, inner-voice movement, rhythm and touch.

• Musical craft - Phrasing, space, motifs and storytelling in a solo.
• Guide tones - Target the 3rds and 7ths that outline the changes.
• Approaches & enclosures - Chromatic approach notes that lead into chord tones.
• Song workouts - Apply each idea over real progressions with a band.

• Module 1: Fundamentals & Notes - The stave, clefs, note names and the keyboard.
• Module 2: Rhythm & Time - Note values, rests, time signatures and counting.
• Module 3: Scales & Intervals - How scales are built and how intervals are measured.
• Module 4: Chords & Harmony - Triads, sevenths and chords in a key.
• Module 5: Minor Keys & Compound Time - Minor scales and keys, and compound metres.

• Major / Minor Relative Keys - Find related keys around the circle of fifths.
• Scale Finder - See and hear any scale from any root.
• Chord Builder - Build any chord and hear it.
• Major Scale Diatonic Harmony Explorer - The chords of every major key.
• Melodic Minor Diatonic Harmony Explorer - The chords of every melodic minor key.
• ii - V - I Trainer - The most common progression, in all keys.
• Dominant 7 Cycle Of Fifths Trainer - Dominant chords around the cycle.
• Interactive Piano - Play on screen or with a MIDI keyboard.
• Metronome - Steady time at any tempo and metre.
• Interval Calculator - Name the interval between any two notes.
• Note Duration Trainer - How long each note value lasts.
• Chord Progression Builder - Write a progression and hear it played.
• Transposition Tool - Move music into the key of any instrument.

• Interval Recognition - Hear and name intervals.
• Chord Recognition - Identify chord types by ear.
• Cadence Recognition - Identify perfect, plagal, imperfect and interrupted cadences.
• Major Mode Recognition - Recognise the major modes by sound.
• Melodic Minor Mode Recognition - Recognise the melodic minor modes by sound.
• Rhythm Trainer - Tap rhythms back in time.
• Rhythm Dictation - Hear a rhythm and write it down.

• Note Recognition - Read notes quickly in treble and bass clef.
• Key Signature Trainer - Name keys from their signatures.
• Chord Construction - Spell chords correctly from any root.
• Scale Construction - Spell scales correctly from any root.
• Chords In A Key Quiz - Match Roman numerals to chords in a key.
• Terms & Symbols Quiz - Musical terms, signs and markings.