You want to play jazz.
But you don't know where to start.
The course that takes you from your first steps on the black and white keys to your first improvisation on a jazz standard.
12 video lessons with Andrea Saffirio.
No theory overload, the goal is playing your first real tune.
Subtitles available in 🇮🇹
You finally have the Real Book. Now what?
If even one of these sounds familiar, this course was made for you.
A thousand chord symbols, rootless voicings, II-V-I in 12 keys
You open the first jazz harmony book and realize it's a whole new language. You study for months. When you sit at the piano, your hands freeze on the root.
"Swing is just triplet eighth notes"
They told you, you tried, it doesn't work. It's approximate, it doesn't train your ear. Your fingers stay stiff and your sound feels like a metronome.
"First all the scales, then the improvisation"
40 scales, 7 modes, 12 voicings in every inversion. The promise is "then we'll improvise." That "then" never comes.
"There are no rules, but there is a direction"
Andrea Saffirio
What changes under your fingers
Results you feel the moment you actually start playing.
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You play jazz with two notes (3rd + 7th)The revolution of modern jazz: the fifth is redundant, the root you leave to the bass player. Two notes per chord, maximum freedom for the melody. It's the heart of the course, from lesson 1.
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You recognize the II-V-I and you know what to doThe most important progression in jazz. Saffirio explains it like tying your shoes and walking out the door. When you hear it, you recognize it. When you see it, you play it.
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Swing gets into your body, not into your headNo "triplet eighth notes". It's the accent on the upbeat, a physical oscillation. You walk it, you sing it, then you play it. Charleston rhythm and anticipated comping in Red Garland's style.
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You improvise on Autumn Leaves without thinking about scalesOne pivot note per chord and you move around it. Diatonic and chromatic approaches to resolve. No formulas. Listening, repetition, and the piano answers.
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You transcribe Wynton Kelly from Freddie FreeloaderThe real method of jazz: you slow it down to 60%, you sing it, you find the notes on the piano. That learning system used by Miles Davis, Coltrane, Bill Evans.
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I already had a great experience with Valerio Silvestro's courses. I'm not letting you go, I was and I remain a loyal fan.”
This is part of the course. Not a trailer.
Two full excerpts from the lessons. 4K, HD audio, camera angles chosen by musicians.
If the quality of these 5 minutes convinces you, imagine 2 hours of the full course.
From voicings to improvisation on a jazz standard
Each lesson builds on the previous one. No jumps, no "plot holes".
12 lessons · 4+h of video · PDF booklet with transcriptions
This course is for you if
Start here: JAZZ PIANO - BEYOND THE REAL BOOK with Francesca Tandoi →
You need: MODERN HARMONY #2 - Valerio Silvestro →
Start here: LEARN PIANO FROM SCRATCH – with Marco Vassallo →
In one week you play the II-V-I without thinking.
12 lessons with Andrea Saffirio. The method that starts from the hands, not from theory.
Andrea Saffirio
Jazz pianist. Band leader of No Trio For Cats.
- Teaches jazz piano at Saint Louis College of Music in Rome
- Lecturer at the conservatories of Frosinone, La Spezia, Piacenza
- A pianist who discovered jazz "purely by chance" and had to start over from scratch
- Expert transcriber: Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Red Garland
- Expert transcriber: Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Red Garland
It's not a tutorial. It's like sitting right next to him.
Direction: camera angles chosen by musicians
Hands, keyboard, posture. You see exactly where the fingers land between one voicing and the next. 4K multicamera, HD audio.
PDF booklet with transcriptions
Transcribed by Saffirio, edited by Giuseppe Negri. Voicings, progressions, exercises on 6 standards. Print it, put it on the music stand, practice.
The course is yours. Period.
No subscription. No expiration. No "access within 12 months". 86% of our students complete the courses because they go at their own pace.
What you're about to get is worth
Let's do the math.
PDF booklet · 45 pages of transcriptions
Every chord, substitution and passage from the course.
Transcribed by Saffirio, edited by Giuseppe Negri. Print it, put it on the music stand, practice. It's not a "bonus": it's half of the method.
30 days. If it's not for you, we'll refund you.
No form, no explanation. Write to support, we'll give it all back. We do it because 86% of those who start our courses finish them. We know they work.
Frequently asked questions
Once you have 3-7 voicings and 2-5-1 under your hands, the natural next step is Tandoi.
JAZZ PIANO - BEYOND THE REAL BOOK with Francesca Tandoi
Same anti-Real-Book narrative as Saffirio, but with advanced voicings, tritone substitutions, block chords and Kenny Barron voicings.
12 lessons on 6 standards. The intermediate next-step in the catalog.
