Beginning Jazz Improvisation with Dave Frank pt. 1 - Intro to Chord Mapping 

It's unbelievable how much money you can make off of this Dave... yet you're so kind to upload such gold to RU-vid so casually. I've payed for online lessons that are not even anywhere near half as good as yours. Blessings

Purely a jazz genius. Great explanation and simple to understand. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for clearing up the chord mapping technique and scales to improvise over them. I think that you are a great instructor and I honestly appreciate your wisdom and guidance. Much thanks brother.

Woah, all of the sudden I can improvise some jazz. This is crazy

Thanks so much Dave you've really clarified things. I can see a way forward and a correct line for future practise and study. Brilliant!

Thanks Dave Frank for this tutorial. I've been searching and searching for something that would help me in this area of jazz improv this is very helpful. I've wants hundreds of other tutorials on this same subject but found myself more confused than ever. Glad to have found you

You are SUPER instructor....greetings from Singapore....love the learning..

You're one of my favorite jazz piano teachers along with Dave Limina, i love your stlye of playing because it's old school, which is the heart of feeling. Your explanations are so clear and concise.

you're the man, Dave! You helped me really improve with your walking bassline series and now I can't wait to take on this series as well. You are a great teacher

Dave: you are a real MASTER. Thank you so much. It is a great gift

YES! Thank you for the amazing lessons.

Why does this only have 2.5k likes? This a generous, fantastic, helpful, well paced and motivating lesson. Thanks Dave! 🎹👍

HI DAVE, I NOW CONSIDER YOU MY JAZZ TEACHER!!! I AM 58 YEARS OLD AND AT THIS RIPE OL AGE HAVE DECIDED TO DO JAZZ! I AM A CLASSICAL TRAINED PIANIST AND HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO FIND THE RIGHT TEACHER TO HELP ME. I UNDERSTAND CHORDS AND SCALES BUT TO IMPROV HAS BEEN QUITE DIFFICULT …. THE VOICINGS HAVE ALSO BEEN QUITE CHALLENGING BECAUSE I AM USED TO USING ROOT POSITIONS … YOUR JAZZ IMPROV VIDEOS HAVE HELPED ME IMMENSELY … THANK YOU SO MUCH …..

Dave, dave, Dave what a well planned and excellently delivered lesson. No exception to your other classes. I am currently watching this in the airport and I am itching to go home to practise, experiment and enjoy these concepts. I love the high level breakdown of jazz into simply music elements and concepts/principles. It was a light bulb moment when you said that as I saw how that two pronged framework apply in so many areas of life and art. I am saving myself for the second lesson - so excited. I feel like a small child at Christmas. Thank you for your generosity. This is the perfect resource for someone like me who is a resourceful self-learner with not enough money for lessons at the moment. It goes without saying that you are an excellent player. However you are such a gifted teacher. I love your explanations, gags and chuckles. Always makes me laugh! Thank you a million times more. With more equipped jazz musicians out there, you are well and truly making the world a better place. Love from Australia (though currently in Malaysia for a stop over!)

Dave is a great instructor. I have learned so much watching this video and others. He is very clear and has really simplified these 4 basic progressions. I have about 5 years of piano study and am just now getting into jazz. I will be studying and practicing these for the foreseeable future. Thanks for putting this stuff out there for free.

What a wonderful lesson Dave! This is amazing, thank you so much for bringing jazz to the masses!

I've been waiting so long for this class ! Thank you Dave Frank :)

Thanks Dave. Am retired & have time to follow stuff I've been craving to refine - for yrs. Your tutorials & energy helps so much.

@08:07 and thus proving that jazz is more off a science than an art. I've always been amazed at how many Jazz/Gospel keyboardists/pianists/organists/guitarists egg cannot hold a note whilst singing. For me, they are intrinsically linked!!

brilliant as always Dave!

Thank you for making this video, Dave! Great lesson!!

Love your playing,Dave. Super creative.⭐✨⭐

Hi Dave, thank you so much for this excellent lesson for beginners. Great work! Stephan

This just answered all the questions I ever had about getting started improvising that I couldn't find elsewhere. Thank you, Dave!!

Thanks so much Dave, I’m starting jazz guitar studies at the University of Manitoba this fall and these videos really helped! My knowledge on jazz improv was very limited but watching these gave me a fresh start

you helped me alot! thank you for focusing so much information in one video!

Dave, this is an incredible improv series! Thanks so much for creating this. You really know how to break this down! And your exercises make sense...I can see where they're gonna take me...

The beginning Night in Tunisia is a true piece of art, you are awesome

No tomatoes from me, sweet man! SO enjoyable to watch you! THANK you!

Thanks again, you truly are a great human being, just by sharing the gift of music, and your knowledge that is very admirable, there are people out there that charge for instruction and they can’t touch you or get close to the genuine and the dynamic way you teach, seriously, you are the teacher that had make the most impact on me, your way of teaching is superb and and inspirational to me. I am self thought and I reach a stage where I felt like I hit a plateau, but thanks to you my brother I am looking forward to get to the next dimension in my musical experimentation adventure. I am pumped up! By the way I never expected a reply from you, that says a lot about your love for music! Thanks again brother!

Dave Frank, I am so happy I saw this video! I actually took private lessons from you while I attended Berklee probably in 2002. I really enjoyed having you as a teacher, but at that time I was focusing more on my rock band, and I regretted choosing rock over jazz piano ever since. I am now a jazz ensemble teacher at an international school in Japan, and have been pumping up my jazz chops in hopes to encourage and instill confidence in my students in their journey toward improvisation. I am going to share this with them in hopes that it clicks and will be infusing your lessons in this video into my teaching. Thanks and blessings to you!

Wow! What... an... explanation... Everything so clear and simplified. Even with a laugh at some times. I got this vid from my jazz piano teacher saying i should watch this if i wanna to improvise, and God he was right! I'm astonished these lessons are free! No where you find a better explanation, even paid one's! Thanx a lot for this effort and the share of your passion! Greetings from Belgium!

This was truly an eye opener!! greetings from Ghana.

Nice video! I like the idea of teaching key centers rather than individual modes on each chord which can be confusing to many beginners.

I really mean it when i say that, i've looked through tons of jazz videos and it seems as if everybody is just talking about "here's how a chord is built up" or "Just play and play until you find out how to impro jazz".. It was so lovely to find a video which actually taught jazz on a slightly more advanced level with actual theory behind it. I've learned more this 30 min (and the 2 hours i used afterwards) than studying other videos on youtube. Thank you

It's refreshing to see a video where the instructor has prepared some kind of lesson plan and gets to the important points right away in a clear and concise manner. Great job, Dave. I'm subscribed.

Thank you very much for the class! I have been spending a long time trying to learn Jazz piano(I'm classical piano background), I even took Jazz pedagogy and Jazz Harmony class in college,but I didn't understand and couldn't really play Jazz music on piano until tonight I found this video! Your class is very clear and understandable! I am sooooo happy right now! I'll definitely continue watching your video and learning from you, thanks agin Mr. Frank!

Your concise method of teaching is wonderful. I'm a student of 10 years but have stuck to mostly romantic/late romantic, so learning this is fresh and fantastic.

Really good stuff! Thanks for uploading!!!

oh my god! this is what i've been looking for up till now! thank you very much sir !

This is FANTASTIC ... thank you for teaching!

I cant stop smiling, that was great Dave. Thanks so much

I have seen SO many videos, tutorials, web pages,... and no one and I mean NO ONE made me understand one fifth of what I have understood in half an hour. With a couple of days of practice I can improvise some jazz! It's very basic, nothing complex or crazy, but my friends like to listen to it and especially I LOVE playing it. I thought videos could help you until a certain level but for more you should get private lessons. Well you proved me wrong! Great GREAT work!!!

Just encountered you today and watching just two classes in 2 hours I have learned a lot and understood what I am doing in my beginner improv. More power to you and God bless always!

Very well done Dave!!

One of the BEST to study...GO Dave!!!!!!!!!!! Killa

wonderful as always, thanks!!!!

I know this is an old video, but I wanna let you know how helpful it was; I've been cracking down for the past year or two on my theory and your video really helped take it to the next level. All I need now is to practice the theory. Thank you so much for the wonderful video/information! And a happy new year!!!!!🎊🎈

Brilliant lesson. Thank you.

Love !!! Dave Frank plays for me what I wish to hear Love !!!

Thank you so much! You explained everything very clearly. I'm running to the piano now to start practicing.

What a great lesson, Thanks!

Amazing video to understand jazz basic and how to start improvisation thanks

Broke down a number of tough to explain ideas. Thanks Dave

Thanks so much for this great lesson Dave . …it has helped me heaps and given me hope with what until now seemed virtually impossible.

A big thanks for your help!! Terrific!

Thank you! Coming from a world of accompaniment, soling has always been a weakness of mine. I think your class has opened my eyes a bit. The best thing is, I understood you clearly. Thank you!

im jazz pianist from Tunisia thanks for putting our flag the lovely deicace to Tunisia and of course thanks for all you precious device

I've been picking apart various jazz piano videos on youtube over the past year or two, yours included. If there's something I'm taking from your videos, it's how to have fun and relax, and just keep playing in the event of a mishap. Have to work out kinks in practice, but still a lesson worth learning. Your voice on the instrument is so (for lack of a better word) jolly haha. Thank you for teaching us!

That was a great video. I think I'm gonna start playing around with what you talked about...

"Take a Train"... lol. Thanks man; good stuff.

Outstanding video, thank you so much

been looking for this for ages.found it.yippee

Loves it!

Thank you very much Mr: Dave

Yes. Fantastic

Man!!! Best instructions I ever have, thanks!

You are great teacher Dave Frank, Thank you so much...

I really like your thinking here. I'm classically trained so the way I relate to everything is just through the basic formal structures. Cool thing is when someone states the chords correctly and shows the transitions it makes much more sense. It seems to me that the one necessary feature of approaching jazz, especially improvisation, is an "automatic" recall of chromatic scales in every key. Thanks for what you have done here.

I've enjoyed your video lessons in the past, and this series looks very promising indeed! I'll definitely be telling my students to check in and watch these videos. And it never hurts to review material to reinforce this knowledge. A good refresher course to get me back on track. Thanks for sharing your unique perspectives. I'll enjoy visiting these "planets". lol Thanks Dave. Very much appreciated. On my way to bookmark your website now. :0)

Hi Dave, just want to say thanks for the great content you continuously bestow on the world. Its top notch. Someday I'd like to come see you give a class in the big bad city. Do you have an future classes scheduled. I like hearing you play!

thank you for this instruction dave frank.

thank you very much for this. I will be certainly putting this into practice. I know some stuff theoretically but my challenge has always been the practical application of the theory.

Just awesome. Before watching this video it was just like a puzzle. Thanks.

Great video, man. Thanks alot!

This makes perfect sense! Great job!

I began watching your tutorials today and I am now viewing the last one

great video!!!!

WOW!! For the first time ever, I can begin understand how to improvise! Thanks Dave for decoding this for me! time to get to work.

This clarifies so much. And it's just a first part!

I have been playing music for over fifty years, studied intensely for seven years, but my main instrument has been guitar. I know a lot of harmonic theory, but some simple concepts you presented in this video will help me so much as I begin to delve into the world of jazz piano. I was recently given an $8000 Clavinola workstation, so it a perfect excuse to get back into an instrument I have devoted a few years to already, to deepen my knowledge of classical music and other genres. Thank you for your clear suggestions and friendly presentation.

I’m beginning to see the light..... Many thanks from Sheffield England

This is great!

Very cool tutorial! many thanks :)

Mr. Frank! Thank you SO much for your exceptionally well written, played, and taught lesson! I have just started to "get" modes a bit, but your part 1 lets me see it from a logical and wise way to improvise. Next time I'm in NY I hope to see you play! Thanks a million! Craig

Thank you for sharing this video. I've got some work to do! Dave Frank you are a very talented pianist.

So nice, thank you!

thanks dave , i live in indonesia, and it is really hard to me to find jazz piano teacher in the town where i live, and finnally i found this you tube channel , it is really help me a lot..awesome!!!

What a great teacher you are Dave and, amazingly, I happen to be reading the book written by the guy (Paramhansa Yogandanda) featured in the picture next to the piano!!

Thanks from a little harmonica player ! Can't say it's easy... but you are making it understandable !

Very cool!

Dave! I took this sh*t in school and i didn't understand it at all until now. My prof gave no live examples - taught from a book we were expected to study and understand based purely from literature and recordings. it was a theory course (which should expand your knowledge) and i left feeling frustrated and more confused than when i entered. honestly your simple easy explanation cleared up so many questions i've had for years since studying jazz! thank u for the elucidation!

I really liked your video, was very helpfull.

This is dope....Thanks for sharing

You are helping me so much. Thank you!

YOU'RE AWESOME DAVE....you are a TEACHER..in capital letters !!!!!

I'm catching hold of this years after the fact, but MAN, I'm glad I found your channel! This stuff is GOLD!

Awesome improvisation in the beginning. For those who've watched this before and want to come back to the beginning of his lecture without the full 5-minute improv meet me at 5:25! If you're really in a rush jump to 12:16... Great dissections at 23:45!

Great lesson

very good!!