Learn major and minor dominant upper structure triads with examples from “Days of Wine and Roses”, “Misty”, “My ship”, and “Prelude to a Kiss." A helpful Upper…
Putting Chords to a Simple Melody. For this lesson we will be using the melody of “Early One Morning” and learning how to put chords to the arrangement. These t…
This lesson is perfect for those of you who are too busy to always find time to practice at the piano. Learn techniques that you can practice away from the pian…
We will be covering: Solfege Simple Exercises Solfege Chords Tendency Tones To improve your ear, use a combination of: 1. Solfege (melodies, chords, progression…
This lesson will show you how to analyze jazz progressions to make it easier to memorize. The voicings in this lesson are great to learn and the fill-in-the-bla…
In part 2 of this lesson you will learn how to learn the process to memorize jazz tunes. Also he will teach you how to transpose the song into another key. You…
In this lesson, you will get an inside look into creating a reharmonized, solo piano jazz arrangement of the pop tune “Every Breath You Take”. If you're interes…
In this lesson you’ll learn how to more effectively break down a piece of music to not only learn it, but learn it for the “long term” and be able to play it fo…
In this lesson, I’ll share my tips, tricks and techniques that I use to pick out songs and chord progressions by ear. I’ll also show you how to use a mix of you…
This is the lesson to begin with if you are a complete beginner to the piano. You'll learn all of the important techniques to get started properly. Work through…
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.
In step 2 I am going to show you how to re-harmonize the song using some simple concepts at first, then moving into more advanced techniques. The first part of…
Picking up where volume 1 left off, we will cover more sight-reading exercises and I will show you more tricks on how to effectively read a piece of sheet music…
Reading music is essential to becoming what I call a "Total Musician." In this 2-volume series, I will give you important exercises, examples and tips on how to…
In part 1, I am going to cover some of the most common requests that I have gotten from students. We will learn more about creating a walking bassline, how to f…
In this first lesson on Melodic Minor Harmony, we will go through each mode of the scale. I will give you examples from some jazz standards, but also show you h…
In this lesson we are going to work through an arrangement for Auld Lang Syne in 8 steps (The 8th step is Special Reharm pt 2). In each step we will add a new t…
In this lesson we will start by working through minor-key harmony. This is important if you want to work in minor keys or expand on your own progressions. Next,…
