Lesson Library

Willie · Professional · 43 min

Learn Burt Bacarach’s beautiful song Alfie. In this lesson, I will break down the piano arrangement note-for-note. We will only be learning the song in the less…

Willie · Professional · 31 min

In this arrangement, the song What a Wonderful World is played three times. The first time the arrangement from Wonderful World part 1 is played. The second tim…

Willie · Beginner · 85 min

In this lesson you will learn how to identify and create different intervals. I will also be covering chord tensions. There is no sheet music for this lesson.

Willie · Intermediate · 51 min

One of the top requested concepts that students are interested in learning more about is improvisation. In this improvisation lesson we will focus on the standa…

Willie · Professional · 74 min

In this lesson we will cover four important uses of diminished harmony: 1) Diminished chord reharmonization, 2) Harmonizing melodies using diminished chords, 3)…

Willie · Professional · 60 min

In this unique lesson, I am using 5 student-submitted videos as a Master Class. You will see each student video followed by a response from me with tips and tri…

Willie · Professional · 69 min

After our Unforgettable Part 1 lesson, students were asking for more ways to fill out the accompaniment with improvisation, fills and runs. In this lesson we wi…

Willie · Intermediate · 48 min

I'll show you how to play the first 16-measures of Bill Evan's beautiful song Waltz For Debby. Using techniques right from Bill Evan's recordings, you'll learn…

Willie · Beginner · 64 min

This lesson is designed to help students understand how to form and play triads. We will cover the 2 ways to form triads and most importantly discuss how to cre…

Willie · Intermediate · 67 min

In this second part, we will be covering improvisation techniques. The concepts in this lesson are extremely important for improvisors of ALL levels. In particu…

Willie · Professional · 60 min

In this 2-part lesson we are going to work through a common progression with a walking bassline and comping chords. Part 2 we will improvise over the bassline.…

Paul · Professional · 42 min

We are covering the B section and the final A section. The B section holds some very nice runs that are quite a challenge! I will also show you how using these…

Willie · Intermediate

In this series, I break down how to create a blues song using my ABC approach. A stands for accompaniments and style, B is Building a Solo and C is chords and p…

Willie · Professional · 49 min

Following in the style of Dr. Ethel Caffie-Austin, this lesson is a transcription of a gospel introduction as performed by Ethel Caffie-Austin. This lesson will…

Willie · Professional · 42 min

In this multi-part "mini course" I will show you how to create beautiful new-age progressions. In this part we will focus on alternate bass motion and fluidity…

Willie · Professional · 59 min

In this multi-part series, we will use the song Unforgettable to dive deeper into a multitude of concepts. This first part focuses on the arrangement of the son…

Willie · Intermediate · 59 min

Student questions answered. Nice discussion on how to move chords around to fill space.

Willie · Professional · 52 min

In this lesson we are going to focus on the improvisation for Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. We are going to work on soloing over a 6/8 pattern and using polyrhythms…

Willie · Professional · 63 min

The Gospel Piano Riffs lessons (1 & 2) will show you how to play gospel-flavor licks along with bassline accompaniment. In this first part, we are going to focu…

Willie · Intermediate · 3 min

In this arrangement we will learn how to go from a groove to adding the melody. By learning a few key rhythmic patterns, you can apply the melody on top and cre…

Willie · Professional · 55 min

In this part 1 of 2, we will cover different exercises that you can use to build up your improvisation over rhythm changes. We will also cover left-hand chord s…

Willie · Beginner · 54 min

In this lesson we will cover gospel piano basis that we will expand upon and use as a foundation for future lessons. These important ~tricks~ come in handy in m…

Willie · Professional · 37 min

In this lesson inspired by the playing of Dr. Ethel Caffie-Austin, we will learn a simple gospel bass pattern along with right hand gospel chordal and melodic g…

Willie · Intermediate

In this advanced lesson, I am going to show you some interesting ways of breaking up, and practicing, your pentatonic scales. We will also cover some McCoy Tyne…