Online Course | Grand Piano Studio

Improvisation and Meditation:

A Spiritual Path to Music and Life

Thank you for checking out my online lesson course, Improvisation and Meditation: A Spiritual Path To Music and Life. These (# of classes) video classes are for all instrumentalists and vocalists who want to learn to improvise and to meditate. Why take a course on improvisation and meditation? Well, to be a skilled improviser and performer requires focused concentration, and meditation teaches focused concentration. Meditation also leads to greater self-awareness, confidence, increased creativity, peace, happiness, and less stress, all things from which every one of us can benefit!

This comprehensive course will teach you to play and to improvise with the chords and scales and enable you to perform Jazz, Blues, Pop, R&B, Motown, Soul, Hip Hop, Rock, Latin music, Contemporary Gospel music, and other forms of improvised music. In parallel, you will learn two non-religious yet SPIRITUAL forms of meditation that will increase your ability to concentrate and add richly to life! My methods for teaching improvisation are clear and effective for learning all of the basic and advanced music theory and practice methods that will enable you to become a great improviser and performer.

And, my approach to teaching meditation is very clear and effective. You will understand and learn mindfulness with the use of what are called “Awareness Points” as you meditate. These will help you to deal with the inevitable intruding thoughts and emotions that interfere with your concentration and interrupt your focus when you are learning to meditate.

Improvisation may seem to be a very mysterious skill. But when broken down into its basic parts and explained well, the music theory of improvisation can be learned in a relatively short period of time. Mastery, of course, takes much longer and requires a lot of practice, and you will learn the practice techniques necessary to succeed. Likewise, meditation also seems to be mysterious. But you will discover that throughout the many different kinds of meditation practices from East to West, that the mind is learning to do only one of two things: either it’s not thinking thoughts but is focused on one thing, or, it’s consciously observing thoughts rather than being unaware of and helplessly influenced by them. You will learn how to practice these two basic forms of meditation that focus on these two states of the mind.

Now, I’m so certain that this course will provide you with all the material, information, examples, and demonstrations necessary to become a skilled and versatile performer, that I’m offering the first class, “Introduction to Improvisation" absolutely FREE!

In this class, I also discuss my approach to teaching meditation. The music and meditation subjects taught in these classes are wide-ranging and comprehensive. If you have a strong desire and commitment to becoming a proficient jazz performer, this course is for YOU.

The price of all 17 lessons is just $290. That’s the cost of just a few regular music lessons. And you will also receive the entire course in a comprehensive PDF format which follows every detail of each class!

Get the first class free!

The Syllabus

Class 1: Introduction To Improvisation

MUSIC CONTENTS: Theme & Variation: Focusing On the Repetition of Rhythms

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Class 2: Introduction To Meditation

Intro To Non-Cognitive Meditation: NCM Awareness Point 1 - Being Aware of the Moment That a Thought Begins.

Intro To Cognitive Meditation:

Being Aware of the Moment That You Stop Observing Your Thoughts And Are Participating (Unaware of) In Them.

MEDITATION CONTENTS:

Non-Cognitive Meditation: Carl Jung On Spirituality; The “Place Within”; Concentration; Trigger Thoughts & Emotions During Meditation; Introduction To Awareness Points; NCM Practicing Awareness Point 1: Being Aware of the Beginning of a Thought”

Cognitive Meditation: Awareness of Awareness: Watching Thought Intently; Stream of Consciousness; Observer of Thoughts vs. Participant With Thoughts; Flowing Back & Forth Between NCM & CM; Living Life In “The Stream of Consciousness”; CM: Reviewing Awareness Point 1.

Lesson #3: Chords & Scales

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