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This Jazz Piano Lesson will help you Discover, Learn, Play the most important jazz piano skill of them all; your treatment, articulation, feel of The 8th Note, Pt. 3. In this jazz piano lessons you will:

1. Discover: Extended 8th Note Groupings
2. Learn: How to use Extended 8th Note Grouping for developing jazz articulation 
3. Play: Extended 8th Note Groupings through the entire measure and beyond

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EPISODE OUTLINE:

1. Five Primary Sounds
1. Major
2. Dominant
1. This Lesson's Choice
3. Minor
4. Half Diminished
5. Diminished
2. The 8th Note
1. Straight 8th vs. Swing 8th
1. Straight = Even
2. Swing = Long/Short
3. Quarter/8th Note Rhythmic Combinations
1. C Dominant 7th
1. Demo 1
1. Quarter Note on Count 1
2. 8th Notes on Counts 2, 3, and 4
2. C Dominant 7th
1. Demo 2
1. Quarter Note on Count 4
2. 8th Notes on Counts 1, 2, and 3
3. C Dominant 7th
1. Demo 3
1. 8th Notes on Counts 1, 2, 3, and 4
4. C Dominant 7th
1. Demo 4
1. 8th Notes on Counts 1, 2, 3, and 4
2. Played from the Root to the 13th of the Sound
5. C Dominant 7th
1. Demo 5
1. Improvisation Using
1. Quarter Note and 8th Note Combinations
2. Chord Tones Only

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