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Meet Melanie Shore

Melanie Shore’s dynamic musical fluency on the piano and Hammond B3 organ has established her as an accomplished performer, sought-after studio musician, music director, and award-winning composer and arranger. Her main passion is mentoring as a music educator, as she has extensively taught privately and at the university level for nearly two decades. Melanie is well-known for her fun, innovative, and engaging teaching style and methodology for all levels, and has successfully helped to create well-rounded musicians. She mixes the important values of classical with jazz and other popular styles, helping students to have a complete musical experience.

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Free Resources

6 Steps to Soloing

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This free E-book is a startup guide for those wanting to expand their piano skills to include jazz. This guide comes with tracks, exercises, and some fun extras!
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Seventh Chord Cheat Sheet

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Cheat sheet for building 7th chords
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Easing Students Into Improv: A Quick & Simple Resource For Classical Piano Teachers

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This quick guide provides piano teachers with tools to start integrating improvisation into their students toolkit. Complete with teacher part (in notation) and creative ideas to help encourage students to find their own voice.
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COURSES

Featured Courses

Blues & Improv Essentials Mini Course

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  • 25 Lessons
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This course is for anyone who is a complete beginner with chords and improvisation. Each lesson comes with an instructional video, assignment, and practice track. The e-book for this course includes bonus left hand concepts and 11 additional practice tunes, so you can take your playing to the next level. If you are curious about chords and improv, but know next-to-nothing, this is for you!!
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Beethoven To Bebop

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  • 134 Lessons

Beethoven to Bebop is a full step-by-step course to breaking free from the sheet music and developing the skills to improvise, arrange, and play with style — from classical elegance to swinging jazz and soulful blues.

Through clear video lessons, hands-on exercises, practice tracks, and downloadable pdf's, you’ll:

Whether you want to spice up your repertoire, jam with other musicians, or simply enjoy the freedom of playing what you feel, Beethoven to Bebop bridges the gap between the disciplined world of classical piano and the joy of jazz and blues.

If you can read Mozart, you can learn to swing like Monk.

*This course also includes the Blues and Improv Essentials Mini Course

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Freestylin' Fingers

Access students' creativity without having to completely rethink your teaching method.

This resource will keep lessons fun and fresh, prolonging student retention and adding an important musical dimension to their toolbox.
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FREE VIDEOS

10 Improv Tips For Beginners

What is a lead sheet? + practice exercises

Oscar Peterson Transcription + Practice tracks

Learning 7th Chords

Easy bass lines for jazz piano newbies

Bill Evans' Oleo transcription

Testimonials

“Freestylin Fingers” is a great introduction to improvisation! Melanie’s open, encouraging, and accessible format is liberating for educators and free of typical dogmatic practices in music education. Instead, this incredible program is fun and engaging for students, while still teaching technique, musicianship, and ear training. I highly recommend this as a perfect way to start students with improvisation and understanding groove and melody.

Kris Johnson - Grammy and Emmy-nominated composer, arranger, trumpeter, educator

Melanie Shore has taught me so much that I couldn't get from any else! She has taught me to love music and to be proud of it. I have learned how I can use my music in the real world, and how to find my unique voice. I have used her methods for the past 4 years and have been able to use them whether I'm accompanying a choir, playing in a band, preparing to play solo piano, or teaching my own students. Music has changed my life and I've realized the possibilities are endless! It is my happy place!

Abby A., student (16)