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Follow my page @charlietranpiano if you're ready to build real jazz piano proficiency and I'll show you the exact methods that have helped myself and my students play with an authentic jazz sound. | Charlie Tran Piano

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "I've said this over and over again. And I'm going to keep saying it because it's the truth. It may not be what some of you want to hear, because some of you have been lead to believe that the secret is in the theory. You're waiting for that one magical scale to change your playing. That one magical chord. That one magical, complex theory topic. But it's not coming, and it never will. Because the thing you're looking for is right in front of you - it

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "If you're ready to create that full, rich sound while playing solo piano.. to fill up the entire room and demonstrate command over the wide range of piano.. then my spread voicings courses is what you're looking for. The series contains several courses all dedicated to showing you exactly how to develop spread voicings so that you can play those big, beautiful chords with ease. These courses can be found in Novu Jazz Academy where lifetime membershi

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "You. Don't. Need. More. Scales!!! You simply need to learn how to be musical with a scale. Nothing is wrong with the amount of scales you know. Think about it like this - a master could make one scale sound infinitely more exciting than an amateur can with every scale in the book. One way you could start getting more out of a scale is by learning some chromaticism. Just take a major scale and explore the notes that don't belong, and find ways to mak

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True story. I felt like my first jazz teacher - a phenomenal jazz pianist - just showed up to lessons to flex on my sorry ass 😭😭😭 | Charlie Tran Piano

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "Nothing can improve your playing if you don't have a strong sense of rhythm. And I mean NOTHING. Here in this video I demonstrate a deceivingly challenging comping rhythm, the Red Garland rhythm, as a way for you to test your rhythm. Make it a goal to get this rhythm at a faster tempo like 200 bpm. If you currently can't do it, then you need to prioritize it. Because even if you play the prettiest notes.. it'll sound bad if the rhythm is bad. So, it

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How I Went From 0 Jazz Piano Skills to Gigging in 2 Years

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "Try this fast blues run! Ready to work one on one with me and start taking your jazz piano journey seriously? Then DM me “JAZZ” along with your goals 🎹👊 #piano #pianist #improv #improvisation #pianoimprov #pianoimprovisation #jazz #jazzimprov #jazzpiano #jazzpianist #jazzimprovisation #jazzpianolessons #jazzpianolesson #pianolessons #pianolesson #musiclessons #musiclesson #musictheory #musictheorylessons"

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "A great run to add to your toolbox - using the notes of the C altered scale. Same exact pattern ascending and descending. Remember to take it slow at first! Don’t forget to follow my page @charlietranpiano if you want to build jazz piano proficiency. #jazz #jazzpiano #jazzpianist #jazzpianolessons #jazzmusician #jazzimprovisation #jazzimprov"

321.6K viewsApr 6, 2025

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "Secondary dominants are a great way to add some chromaticism and tonicization to your chord progressions. Secondary 2-5's take it to the next level. The secondary 2-5's in this video are contained within asterisks. Ex: *Gm7-C7* If you want to be able to play with full, lushious voicings like in this video, then the first thing you need to dial in are spread voicings. Comment the word "VOICE" down below to access my free training on spread voicings a

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "If you want to be a great improviser, then practicing your scales linearly up and down won’t do you much good. Instead, invest time into practicing different patterns. Here is one of my favorite patterns - try it out! Have you already spent countless hours trying to learn jazz but aren’t getting anywhere? And now you’re serious about one on one coaching in order to make real progress? Then DM me “COACH” along with your goals and let’s chat. #piano #

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach | I used to be exactly the type of person I'm describing in this video. I was the biggest theory nerd I knew, and there's nothing wrong with... | Instagram

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "The other day I did "over the rainbow" with all suspended chords.. here's today's shenanigans. This is one of the ways I exercise and test myself on how comfortable I am with voicing a specific chord quality in many ways, so here's Misty but with all minor chords. Gotta keep exercises interesting!"

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If you're learning jazz, stop practicing chord progressions out of context and practice jazz standards. Unless you're practicing specific concepts such as soloing over a specific progression, figuring out two-handed comping voicings over a progression, etc., of course. Otherwise, jazz standards contain all the chord progressions already. And you'll be forced to play through progressions you didn't expect. But also many you would expect. You'll pick up patterns, and notice unusual instances. Lear

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We all know that one guy.. Ready to work one on one with me and start taking your jazz piano journey seriously? Then DM me “COACH” along with your goals 🎹👊 #piano #pianist #improv #improvisation #pianoimprov #pianoimprovisation #jazz #jazzimprov #jazzpiano #jazzpianist #jazzimprovisation #pianosolo #keyboardsolo #keyboardist | Charlie Tran Piano

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "Here’s the breakdown of this reharm! Learn a bit about my thought process behind these reharms. YouTube: @charlietranpiano Posted on Feb 13, 2026"

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "If you're interested in learning more about my system in building spread voicings from the ground up from the most basic spread voicings to pro level, then consider joining Novu Jazz Academy where there's several courses that will teach you how - these courses are actually part of an entire series dedicated solely to developing your spread voicings. Lifetime membership to the academy will be on a Black Friday sale for all of November - just comment

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach | Some of you can probably tell this is an exercise. Maybe to others, it might even sound like music. I often try to find the best of both... | Instagram

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These two tips helped me transform my chords into those big, lush chords we hear in jazz. Now, I'd be lying if I said these two tips were "plug and play" in every single situation - because they're not. They a great place to start, but eventually you learn that there's always more nuance to any simple tip. Spreading out the notes of a chord results in what are known as spread voicings, and if you want a step-by-step approach to learning, building, and applying spread voicings to your playing, th

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach | We see this all the time when looking at solos from the greats - playing over the bar. This is part of the language, and immediately... | Instagram

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "You gotta know good comping voicings if you're playing in a jazz band. Start with these stock 4-note voicings. Eventually, you can expand to 5-note and 6-note voicings. And don't forget to follow my page @charlietranpiano if you want to learn how to build real jazz piano proficiency. #jazz #jazzimprov #jazzpiano #jazzpianist #jazzimprovisation #jazzpianolessons #jazzpianolesson #musictheory #musictheorylessons #pianolesson #pianolessons"

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If you're ready to create that full, rich sound while playing solo piano.. to fill up the entire room and demonstrate command over the wide range of the piano.. then my spread voicings courses is what you're looking for. The series contains several courses all dedicated to showing you exactly how to develop spread voicings so that you can play those big, beautiful chords with ease. This is the exact system I used for myself and also for my private students. These courses can be found in Novu Jaz

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If you're ready to create that full, rich sound while playing solo piano.. to fill up the entire room and demonstrate command over the wide range of the piano.. then my spread voicings courses is what you're looking for. The series contains several courses all dedicated to showing you exactly how to develop spread voicings so that you can play those big, beautiful chords with ease. This is the EXACT system I used for myself and also for my private students. These courses can be found in Novu Jaz

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Only have 30min to practice? No problem. A seasoned music practicer can get more done in 30 minutes than an amateur in 3 hours. The steps are simple: 1) pick out a concept you're working on 2) apply it to a tune out of time to focus on note accuracy 3) apply it to a tune in time You might think that you need a certain level of proficiency in the fundamentals to do this, and you're partly right, but even something as simple as just playing the melody along with the bass note is an effective exerc

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There's many ways to play arpeggios in jazz, but "jazz arpeggio" can also refer to a specific arpeggio we see all the time in jazz.. the 9th arpeggio. This is one of the core pieces of jazz language. Practice it for all the different chord types, but most importantly, practice it with the intention of integrating it into your vocabulary. We don't want to just get good at the jazz arpeggio as an exercise - we need to be able to seamlessly weave it into our soloing, and in this video I'll give you

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Due to nature, certain keys pose certain challenges. Like in the tune "almost like being in love", in order to create a full sound you need to create huge spread voicings, sometimes spanning more than 3 octaves. If you play the same tune in the key of F going for that full sound, most of the work is already done for you by nature because it's a much lower key than Bb. Although you could probably get away with LH 7th chords in some keys, you definitely want to learn your spread voicings so that y

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Charlie Tran • Jazz Piano Coach on Instagram: "The jazz teacher back at it again"

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Playing the correct notes of the scale is just the first step to playing musical and intentional sounding solos. It's like adding flour to the pan to bake a cake - it's necessary, but there's so many more ingredients and steps before you get a cake that's worth eating. And not to mention, the first cake you bake most likely won't be your best one, either, so you'll have to experiment with making multiple cakes. In this video I'll show you how you can experiment with targeting the 3rds of each ch

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Good exercises aren't supposed to sound like just exercises. They should also sound like music. With so many jazz exercises floating around the internet, it's hard to know which ones to invest your time into practicing. First, narrow down to the exercises that actually sound like music - the ones where you can immediately see how it would help. My functional voicings system is one of those exercises, but don't take my word for it. It's the EXACT system I've used for myself to get to where I am i

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It’s important to make sense of every single note of a lick or any piece of soloing language. Because eventually, you’ll start to recognize similar patterns everywhere and that’s how language development starts. #bebop | Charlie Tran Piano

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