Marcel Maciej - Modern Music Piano Academy

Marcel Maciej - Modern Music Piano Academy operates as an online music school specializing in jazz, blues, and boogie-woogie piano education. The academy does not offer academic degree programs such as bachelor's, master's, or MBA degrees, nor formal state certifications. Instead, its instructional portfolio consists entirely of distance-learning continuing education programs, comprising self-paced online video masterclasses, interactive group coaching, and individual remote mentoring. All instruction is delivered digitally through online video platforms, dedicated learning tools, and the academy's proprietary mobile app, allowing students to access lessons remotely at any time. The core curriculum centers around three primary digital courses designed for ambitious beginners and intermediate to advanced pianists. The flagship program, Jazz Piano Revolution, teaches bar and cocktail jazz piano through lead sheets, foundational music theory, and a structured three-step method for interpreting jazz standards. It features more than 120 video lessons spanning over 20 hours of material, covering topics such as scales, intervals, triad and seventh chord structures, ii-V-I progressions, and chord extensions. This course also incorporates practical repertoire studies of classics like Misty, Pure Imagination, and The Nearness of You, supplemented by bonus modules such as Jazz Piano Quickstarter, Stride Piano Explosion, and Boogie Woogie Saloon. Another central program is the Jazz Impro Master course, which focuses specifically on the art of jazz and blues piano improvisation. Taught with a step-by-step approach starting from the blues scheme, it contains more than 50 video lessons with over 15 hours of instruction covering guide tone voicings, rhythmic variations, scales, enclosures, and melodic phrasing. The program includes targeted bonus units such as Standards neu gedacht, Meisterhafte Linien analyzing solos from masters like Red Garland and Benny Green, and Farbe und Freiheit, which focuses on modal improvisation. Students receive downloadable PDF worksheets, sheet music, and practice playbacks to apply these improvisation techniques directly at their instruments. The academy also offers the Boogie Woogie Piano Revolution course, taught by instructor Cili Marsall, which focuses on driving basslines, fills, chops, and stylistic improvisation inspired by figures like Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis. This course delivers more than 60 instructional videos comprising over 11 hours of content, accompanied by over 85 downloadable sheet music and playback files. In addition to standalone self-learning packages, the academy provides premium options featuring weekly live group coaching sessions via video call, an extensive online archive with dozens of hours of recorded sessions, and optional one-on-one online coaching for advanced subjects such as reharmonization and modal interchange.