Lesson Videos & PDFs

BIJAN TAGHAVI- PIANIST, COMPOSER, EDUCATOR

Lesson Videos & PDFs

Most lessons on my YouTube channel include a PDF that goes along with the video. They are all available here, for $5 a piece.
Instructions: Press on the "SHOP" button and you will be sent to the product page where you can add the item to cart. Once purchased you will receive immediate access to download the digital lesson on the website, and an email with the lesson attached. If you are having trouble downloading your lesson, send me an email at [email protected].

Some of these videos are sample videos that I have made available to the public from my exclusive lesson library for my online video students. To come on board, email me at [email protected], we can set up a free zoom session and I can tell you all about it. Or click here to read more about my Video Exchange Lessons.

Kenny Barron Autumn Leaves Melody Transcription Analysis

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Lesson Videos & PDFs

Kenny Barron Autumn Leaves Melody Transcription Analysis

Subtractions Practice Technique (for Syncopation & Hand Independence)

Rhythm Changes Improv Ideas (Bijan Transcription)

Create Chords From ANY Scale (Barry Harris)

Barry Harris Round Midnight Reharmonization

Oscar Peterson Take The A Train Transcription Analysis

3 Piano Technique Tips - From Robert Estrin

How To Create Inner Voice Movement - Advanced Jazz Harmony

Do Nothing Til' You Hear From Me - Bijan Comping Transcription

Group Comping Voicings Overview

How to REHARMONIZE Jazz Standards (Everything Happens to Me)

Barry Harris Passport (Blues) Improv Analysis

2 Tips Comping For Vocalists

How to Play FAST

Jazz Trio Intro EXPLAINED - Thadrack Intro Transcribed (Piano, Bass, Drums)

3 Tips When Composing an AABA Tune

Jazz Improv - How to Play OUTSIDE

Rhythmic Motifs in Jazz Improvisation

Chordal Improvisation

3 Ways to Use Counterpoint in Jazz

Chordal Improvisation Part 2

Chromatic Approach

2 Ways to Use a Pedal Point

How to Create RH Counter-Melodies (Body and Soul)

How to Create LH Counterpoint (Body and Soul)

How to Use Dynamics to Create Drama

LH Contrasting Texture (Body and Soul)

How to End a Song Quietly

2 Ways to Create LH Counterpoint (P.2)

3 Ways to Orchestrate A Melody (Asojano from TrioGram)

Polymeters EXPLAINED (Superimposing 3 over 4)

Using Quotes in Jazz Improvisation (Quoting A Love Supreme on How Deep Is The Ocean)

Jazz Improv Tip: DEVELOP Your Ideas (2 Melodic Motifs on Esau)

Orchestrating A Melody P.2 (Esau from TrioGram)

Improvising over Changing Time Signatures (over Ahmad Jamal's Crossfire)

Jazz Trio Intro EXPLAINED

Modal Solo on min7b5 (from It Always Happens)

Inspired by Ahmad Jamal's Poinciana (Secret Love arr. Bijan Taghavi Japan Trio)

Rhythmic Telepathy PART 6 (Secret Love arr. Bijan Taghavi Trio)

How to Fade Out (Ending to Secret Love)

Using Shapes in Jazz Improv

Rhythmic Telepathy PART 7 (Superimposing 3 in 4 on End of a Love Affair)

How to Use the Melody in Your Improvisation

Jazz Slang P.2 - Double Time Feel EXPLAINED

Watch What Made Rodney Whitaker Swink

How to Orchestrate a Melody for Solo Piano (Autumn Leaves)

How to Outline Chord Changes (Improv on Autumn Leaves)

16th Note Improv Lines over Autumn Leaves

Metric Modulation over Autumn Leaves (Part 1: 4 to 3)

Soloing in 3/4 on Autumn Leaves

Metric Modulation over Autumn Leaves (Part 2: 3 to 4)

3 Parts of the Body

2 Reasons Why You MUST Strike From The Surface of the Keys

How to Bring Out the Melody in Your Playing

SECRET Practice Exercise for Voicing Control

How to STOP Playing the Same Licks in Your Jazz Solos

5 Octaves in 5 Seconds with this KILLER Run

5 Inner Voice Movements on I Should Care

The SECRET To Making Stride SWING (The Hump on I Should Care)

How to Get a Full Sound out of the Piano

What is Over the Barline Phrasing in Jazz Improvisation?

How to Use Theme & Variation like Kenny Barron

Soloing on an E Minor Blues in 12/8

Modal Solo on Cmin7 (from Crossfire)

2 Ways to Create Rhythm Section Interplay (Rhythmic Telepathy Part 8)

Use This Motif When Improvising in 3/4!

How to Create Rhythmic Tension in 3/4

Polyrhythm vs Polymeter EXPLAINED

How to Jazzify the Living Pianos Theme Song

2 Ways to Use Triplets in Your Improvisations

Inverted Pedal Point on Rhythm Changes

3 Ways to Approach the Bridge of Rhythm Changes

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