Lesson Library

Willie · Intermediate · 16 min

Quick reference for the key of A. Learn your major scale, triads, seventh chords, rootless chords and 2-5-1 progression in both major and minor keys.

Willie · Intermediate · 23 min

Quick reference for the key of C. Learn your major scale, triads, seventh chords, rootless chords and 2-5-1 progression in both major and minor keys.

Willie · Intermediate · 19 min

Quick reference for the key of D. Learn your major scale, triads, seventh chords, rootless chords and 2-5-1 progression in both major and minor keys.

Willie · Intermediate · 18 min

Quick reference for the key of G. Learn your major scale, triads, seventh chords, rootless chords and 2-5-1 progression in both major and minor keys.

Willie · Professional · 112 min

"My Favorite Things" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. Recorded by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane on his 1961 alb…

Willie · Intermediate · 56 min

On Green Dolphin Street (originally called Green Dolphin Street) is another classic jazz standard which moves between latin and swing rhythmic feels. The song w…

Willie · Beginner · 41 min

In this lesson we will be covering seventh chords and their inversions. We will also review slash chords and talk about some more advanced rhythmic patterns in…

Willie · Intermediate · 39 min

Sheet music has been added. Please note, this is version 1 of the music and it will likely change a bit once the lesson video is released. I am no longer teachi…

Willie · Intermediate · 56 min

In this exercise we will be focusing on the full ii-V-I progression and working on our targeting and filling with scale notes. The inspiration lesson will give…

Willie · Intermediate · 128 min

In this lesson I'll show you how to both fix a chord chart (looking for bad chords) and how to FILL OUT an arrangement when only a few chords are given. We will…

Willie · Intermediate · 114 min

"Blueberry Hill" is a popular tune published in 1940, and is best remembered for Fats Domino's 1950s version. We will learn both an easy arrangement and one tha…

Willie · Professional · 81 min

In this lesson you'll learn the next part of Tennille's Blues which can also be played as a composition on its own. I'll discuss the "strollin'" bass pattern an…

Willie · Intermediate · 16 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to create and play an easy walking bassline that you can use for both jazz and blues songs.

Willie · Professional · 56 min

This advanced lesson will show you different ways of using diminished chords. You'll also learn the Whole-1/2 diminished scale, how it relates to the 1/2-Whole…

Willie · Professional · 22 min

Enclosures and neighbor tones are what allow you to weave through a chord progression with your improvisation. You'll learn 8 enclosure patterns and how to prac…

Willie · Intermediate · 61 min

We will be focusing on exercises starting on different solfege notes. You'll learn about tendency tones and how to know where notes want to resolve. We will als…

Willie · Intermediate · 41 min

We will be covering how to improvise over 2 different blues progressions in the key of C and F. We will be discussing rootless chords and you'll learn how to pl…

Willie · Intermediate · 62 min

We will be going over: Minor Solfege, Upbeats, Dictation Examples, Melodic and Rhythmic Dictation, Listening for Progressions and Listening for Chords.

Willie · Intermediate · 54 min

We will be going over: Examples to Sing, The "Pickup", Dictation Examples, Melodic and Rhythmic Dictation, Major Triad Inversions and Introducing Minor.

Paul · Beginner · 49 min

In this lesson, you will review four basic rhythmic values: whole, dotted-half, half, and quarter notes. After some brief examples you will work through 12 Rhyt…

Paul · Professional · 47 min

In this lesson, we will teach you how to play this classic Paul McCartney hit by breaking the form down into individual section, making the song easier to memor…

Paul · Professional · 82 min

Have you ever wanted to groove right along with the most classic clavinet hooks on some of the greatest funk tunes of all-time, but had trouble capturing that e…

Paul · Beginner · 55 min

In this lesson, you will learn some of the common aspects of playing a synthesizer using the Yamaha Motif ES6, a very frequently encountered and popular synth.…

Paul · Professional · 51 min

Oftentimes funk tunes are built on the traditional 12-bar blues form. The elements which transform a tune from a swing-blues to a funk-blues are usually things…