Lesson Library

Nina · Intermediate · 73 min

In this bi-weekly class for Premier-level students, Nina will be teaching you how to create your own jazz piano arrangements using a variety of techniques. You'…

Paul · Intermediate · 87 min

Learning Goals: By participating in this course students will gain a more comprehensive understanding of the political, socio-economic, cultural, geographical,…

Paul · Intermediate · 90 min

In this class, Paul will feature a new pop tune each session and help students learn the song through the use of performance, active listening, discussion, anal…

Nina · Intermediate · 68 min

In this bi-weekly class for Premier-level students, Nina will be teaching you how to create your own jazz piano arrangements using a variety of techniques. You'…

Paul · Intermediate · 93 min

In this class, Paul will feature a new pop tune each session and help students learn the song through the use of performance, active listening, discussion, anal…

Willie · Intermediate · 78 min

"O Holy Night" (also known as "Cantique de Noël") is a well-known Christmas carol. Originally based on a French-language poem by poet Placide Cappeau, written i…

Willie · Beginner · 218 min

In this course you'll learn how to play five Christmas classics: Silent Night, Joy To The World, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire (The Christmas Song), O Chri…

Anna · Beginner · 64 min

An introduction to the four vocal registers, with a focus on Chest and Head Voice/ Falsetto, where most singers spend the majority of time singing and transitio…

Willie · Beginner · 81 min

In this 2-part workshop we cover how to master and use your rootless chords. Rootless chords are an important tool in both group and solo piano playing. In sess…

Willie · Professional · 101 min

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to work with a bass player. My friend, and bassist extraordinaire, Bryan Frank Rizzuto and I will teach you the techniques yo…

Willie · Professional · 23 min

Learn how to solo (improvise) over Swingin' Shepherd Blues.

Willie · Intermediate · 6 min

Play along with the bass player over Swingin' Shepherd Blues.

Willie · Beginner · 20 min

This lesson will show you how to use guide tones in your improvisation over Beautiful Love.

Willie · Professional · 41 min

In this lesson we will create a more advanced sound in our improvisation by using quartal straddles and by adding grace notes to chords.

Willie · Intermediate · 22 min

In this lesson we will add some melody and licks to the right hand over our 12-bar blues progression.

Willie · Intermediate · 29 min

In this lesson you'll learn the scales needed for improvisation over "Beautiful Love."

Willie · Intermediate · 49 min

In this lesson we will now use chord arpeggios to expand our improvisation.

Willie · Intermediate · 26 min

In this lesson we are going to focus on R7 and R3 chord shells over dominant seventh chords. We will also work through a pentatonic scale exercise.

Willie · Intermediate · 28 min

In this lesson we are going to begin targeting chord tones in both our voicings and improvisation.

Willie · Intermediate · 30 min

In this lesson we will build an improvisation over The Thrill is Gone. We will cover the scales needed to build a solo.

Willie · Intermediate · 52 min

In this exercise we will learn the 12-bar blues progression and learn how to create a bassline that we will later improvise over.

Paul · Intermediate · 59 min

In this lesson we will be learning a quintessential jazz standard by one of the most famous musicians in jazz - 'Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk. We'll be exa…

Paul · Intermediate · 112 min

In this lesson we'll be learning the jazz-funk classic "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers. We will be learning and applying various jazz techniques - such as d…

Willie · Intermediate · 34 min

In this exercise we will work on a new approach to improvisation using triads and triad arpeggios over minor chords.