Block chords are an important part of the jazz piano vocabulary. You’ve probably heard greats like George Shearing or Oscar Peterson use them in their arrangements and solos. This jazz piano tutorial introduces you to Major block chords, how to practice them, and how to use them for arranging a melody either in the context of a composition, or while you’re soloing.

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In this lesson we explore the beautiful 1436251 Progression in the key of Eb Major. If you are looking for a nice chord progression to introduce your jazz standards, this is the progression you have been waiting for.

We start by building the diatonic 7th chords in the key of Eb to understand the base chords that we are working with. We then start to change the chord qualities to dominant 7 which allows us to access more interesting colours and textures.

This progression is the perfect introduction for any tune that starts on the Imaj7 chord. A nice touch is to run up the upper structure triad on the final V7 chord which then leads smoothly and convincingly into the start of the tune. We demonstrate using this intro for the tunes “Misty” and “Over The Rainbow”.

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