Lesson Library

Paul · Professional · 55 min

In this lesson, we will teach you how to play two classic funk-party Michael Jackson tunes – “Shake Your Body Down to the Ground” and “The Way You Make Me Feel.…

Paul · Professional · 49 min

In this lesson you will learn 5 scales that are essential when learning how to solo over a funk groove. Each chapter will present a new scale and will examine h…

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…

Paul · Professional · 69 min

Are you interested in writing or arranging music? Are you interested in understanding why certain chords “work” and sound so cool? Then this is the lesson for y…

Willie · Intermediate · 58 min

A great lesson for anyone wanting to accompany themselves or others while singing. This lesson is also great if you want to get better at comping chords. I've b…

Paul · Intermediate · 29 min

Learn ten different 2-5-1 licks that you can use for improvisation. This lesson contains licks 6-10.

Paul · Intermediate · 22 min

Learn ten different 2-5-1 licks that you can use for improvisation. This lesson covers the first 5 licks.

Willie · Beginner · 16 min

Perhaps one of the most important progressions in jazz, you need to know how to improvise over the ii-V-I progression. In this lesson we begin by learning how t…

Willie · Intermediate · 28 min

Expanding upon our 2-5-1 progression, you'll now learn how to improvise over a V7 of II chord using enclosures. Applying enclosures to one chord is a great way…

Willie · Intermediate · 25 min

Learn how to improvise over the first part of the standard Autumn Leaves using your major scale.

Willie · Intermediate · 20 min

Expanding on the techniques that we learned in the previous lesson, now we will add enclosures to our improvisation.

Willie · Beginner · 66 min

In this lesson you'll learn what solfege is, how to vocalize rhythms, use solfege to 'hear' melodies, solfege chords, conduct in 4/4 time and learn some exercis…

Willie · Intermediate · 63 min

The song served as an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement in America in the 1960s. A commonly played version was recorded by Nina Simone in 1967 on her album S…

Willie · Professional · 66 min

Learn how to improvise over "The Chicken" with these exercises along with a written-out solo.

Willie · Intermediate · 18 min

This short lesson is a good primer into reharmonization. Start here before digging into the longer reharmonization lessons.

Paul · Intermediate · 68 min

In this lesson you'll learn about diatonic harmony and different harmonic progressions.

Darby · Professional · 68 min

Shout music is a type of gospel music characterized by very fast tempo, chromatic basslines, snare hits and hand claps on the upbeat of each beat. In this lesso…

Darby · Professional · 58 min

This more advanced lessons will give you more organ shout techniques that you can use.

Willie · Intermediate · 54 min

Using the song "Harlem Nocturne" as an example, you'll learn how to fill out a chord progression for a song.

Willie · Intermediate · 15 min

In this lesson I’ll show you how to play this classic song using an extremely easy technique. Perfect for students of all levels. It Had To Be You – Learn my si…

Willie · Intermediate · 108 min

In this lesson you’ll learn how to create your own gospel/blues progressions while also learning more about dominant motion, alternate bass notes and 2-5-1 prog…

Willie · Professional · 53 min

In part 2 we are going to take the baseline skills we learned in Slow Blues a la Stormy Monday Part 1 and create a full arrangement including a really cool jazz…

Paul · Professional · 45 min

In this lesson, you will learn to tackle the standard “Blue Bossa” and arrange various phrases of the song with some pro techniques. In the end, you’ll have a f…

Paul · Professional · 46 min

In this lesson, You will learn two different ways to play the melody for use in a trio setting. In addition, you will learn various ways to use rhythm in your c…