Improv on Major and Minor II-V-I ★ What Is This Thing Called Love ★ Jazz piano College 

A very humble yet effective teacher. One who gives so freely without any pretence. I'm a jazz pianist & yet I've gained much. Respect Tony. It is a pity the RU-vid algorithm doesn't give your videos the attention it deserves.

FANTASTIC lesson here. I learned this tune awhile back with my jazz teacher and found this to really help in several ways: 1. Very straightforward breakdown of all scales and sections. 2. Really helpful tips in various places, like using G pent over the C maj 7 and avoiding those Fs and roots. 3. Excellent explanation of diminished scale applications. Approach to diminished scales has more depth than most similar materials and shows ho important this is to practice. Thanks for putting this up, and especially the study guide materials. All of the demonstrations and materials make the concepts very clear and are right on point to clarify stuff I've learned in the past. This is really fun stuff and enjoyable to learn this way.

Brain + Experience + Heart = magical lesson. Thank You !

Having watch several great pianists I definitely find Tony’s approach refreshing and presented in a clear and concise manner. Thank you very much Tony. Every time I watch you more lights go on. Truly inspiring with impeccable playing.

Wow! A quality jazz piano tutorial aimed at this standard is rarely found. Well done and thank you for all your clear explanations.

So useful and clear. Great playing! Thank you for sharing your knowledge

A Master class in II-V-I scales. Much appreciated Tony.

Worthy of close study!!!

Tony, love your videos. Played guitar and bass since my teenage years, new to piano. You've made all the difference, thank you!

i am an aspiring jazz pianist. I wanted to get used to all the dissonance of the chords and the spice of jazz and realised that I haven’t heard enough. who are the pianists i can listen while beginning this journey?!

Great channel. Thanks

Great and very helpful videos you have. Thanks for it!

You have really amazing clear videos! I don't understand why I haven't looked more at your videos, I always learn something new! Thanks

Excellent video!!!! Excellent discussion of diminished scale. Chord scale theory ain't so bad after all!!!

Thank you very much !Thank you for giving away your great lessons for everyone..amazing!

My favorite jazz teacher

Thank you for uploading this vid., Tony. Great tutorial. Especially liked some of those Art Tatum RH ideas. I'll have to work on those :-)

Great Jazz tutorial 💙😀 Thank you.

Thanks Tony. You got me started on jazz piano!

Really enjoyed this video!

I know a nice thing on C7-diminished scale: Hexatonic-scale C-F-Gb-B-C-G-Gb-Db or EbAb-A-D-Eb(back)-BbA-E etc...

Fantastic ! Great explanation of improvisation !!!

Thank you so much for this video!

Love this, Tony! Many thanks for all your great work, and for your lovely esteem in my jazz piano books!

Great video! Thank you for sharing!

Was playing along with good ole Frank Vignola and instead 2 bars of Ab7, He put a bar of Ebm7, which is I guess the 2 thats a lot like 5

Thank you so much. I am always struggling with which Scale/Mode i can/should use on a specific Chord or Pattern. I hope i can find more about this in your excellent teachings here on YT. Thanks again 🙏🏻

Good blues

Thank you so very much doc Tony for the sheet music I really appreciate it. Wishing you the very best always sincerely Teddy.

Thanks, Tony. Fantastic lesson!

during octatonic stuff, i tried in the left hand E-Bb D-Abresolving toG-Db RH ATriad or(#9 Lick) G-Db :RH:F#story etc..

Awesome!

Excellent content, very productive lesson!

Very nice video. Helped a lot! Keep it up!

How are You Tony? Best regards from Reinhard, (Germany) Thank you for tutorials.

Cool video. Thank you !!

Amazing, as always, Tony. Who was your teacher, btw?

Great instruction. Thank you so much.

Buenisimo

Thanks again for another great video!

Thx so much, very insightful and useful.

Hey really appreciate your videos, this is my first comment since you since you said you like reading comments for ideas. Do you have any advice on playing ideas with just the mixolydian scale over the dominant 7 chord? I can improvise a bit using the chord tones, but I'm not that good of using or thinking of the basic diatonic modes when I improvise. I haven't even started to try improvising using the altered scale, should I just start with the altered scale ideas here anyway?

so nice !!! excellent!!!

Yet another great video, Tony! I hope this comment finds you after so much time has elapsed since you made this video, but I have a question. You play an Ab scale over the Gm7b5 chord of the 1st ii-V-I. Is that dictated by the presence of the b5? Can you therefore play all b5 passages by using the major scale of the chord a half-tone above (like Ab is a half-tone above G)? Or does it only apply to ii-V-I situations? I find these relationships very intriguing, like, how you can keep going up by minor 3rds, even on the more complex "box" chords, and have it still retain its sound.

Amazing!

In the last 20-30 seconds of this video, you're moving a lot of chords in a melodic fashion (block style). Are these drop 2 voicings or something else? Thanks as always for the great lessons.

When you use a pentatonic scale for the cmaj7 that is not a C pentatonic, it is a G pentatonic scale. Otherwise this is great!

Thanks....

On Gm7b5 your great Art Tatum-Lick why not substitute d to Em7b5 and than Hexatonicly: E-A-DBbD-A (going to tritone mirror image) AbDbGb-D-Gb-Db...?this came to me,it is night here I am gettinmg inspired by your lessons1

Hexatonic:F#-B-E C-F-Bb(I learned this from Freddy Zomer a saxophone player)

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18:50 "penta shit" :-)

on Maj7th chords I like GAA#B D-D#-E is that wrong?

Hi Tony. I can’t find the lead sheet for this tune in any of my fakes books. What edition are you using in your lesson?

Do you offer lessons via Skype?

You don’t have heart you just have orogressions