Piano Lab with Paul

A live, guided-practice class where Paul helps you strengthen your piano skills, work through musical concepts, and turn what you’ve learned into confident playing.

A live, guided-practice class where Paul helps you strengthen your piano skills, work through musical concepts, and turn what you’ve learned into confident playing.

Sailing (Christopher Cross) – Part 1 · The Yacht Rock StandardThe definitive yacht rock tune. Paul breaks down the lush chords, the built-in tension and the slash chords that give Sailing its floating sound, and shows how to translate the record's piano, string and guitar parts into voicings that work at the keyboard.

Sailing (Christopher Cross) – Part 2 · The Yacht Rock StandardPart two on Sailing. Paul completes the arrangement, refining the lush chords, slash chords and tension-and-release, and blending the piano, string and guitar voicings into one solo-piano version you can play start to finish.

Strasbourg/St. Denis (Roy Hargrove) – Part 1 · Groove JazzRoy Hargrove's modern groove-jazz anthem. Paul unpacks the cyclical chord progression and connects it to the same DNA in Red Clay, Chameleon, Just the Two of Us and Sade's Kiss of Life, so you learn one groove and unlock a whole family of tunes.

Strasbourg/St. Denis (Roy Hargrove) – Part 2 · Groove JazzPart two on Strasbourg/St. Denis. Paul locks in the groove and the cyclical chords, then works on comping, feel and soloing over the vamp, drawing on Red Clay, Chameleon, Just the Two of Us and Kiss of Life for ideas.

The (Lost) Art of the Bridge – Part 1 · Greatest Bridges of All TimeThe bridge is where great songwriters take a tune somewhere new, and it's a dying art. Paul studies some of the best ever written, starting with Billy Joel's She's Always a Woman and Quincy Jones' One Hundred Ways, and shows what makes them lift, turn and land back home.