Lesson Library

Willie · Professional · 98 min

Learn how to improvise and create chord progressions. Several common progressions are discussed along with a lot of in-depth theory. Great lesson on creating a…

Willie · Intermediate

Learn how to break apart your chords between two hands. You'll also learn what to play in your hands when playing with a group. 2-5-1's and 2-5-1-6's are also c…

Willie · Intermediate · 10 min

Learn how to improvise over a diminished chord.

Willie · Intermediate · 8 min

Willie · Intermediate · 10 min

Willie · Intermediate · 22 min

In this lesson we are going to focus on filling out our R7 and R3 chord shells by adding more notes to our right hand.

Willie · Intermediate · 77 min

In this lesson you'll learn 5 different left hand accompaniment techniques and how to use them while improvising in the right hand.

Willie · Intermediate · 9 min

Learn how to create simplified rootless chord voicings by adding tensions to our guide tones.

Willie · Professional · 39 min

Learn how I go about transposing patterns into new keys.

Darby · Professional · 57 min

In this lesson you'll learn some classic organ licks from songs like: "Green Onions", "Smoke On The Water", "Will You Be There", "Gimme Some Lovin'", plus some…

Willie · Intermediate · 70 min

Part 2 of the Chord Voicings Made Easy DVD. On this DVD you will learn my Chord Gems, Upper Structure Triads, Comping and Tri-Tone Substitutions. You should go…

Willie · Beginner · 61 min

Learn how to move beyond a basic chord groove by adding neighbor chords, chordal scales and more. Sus4 chords and slash chords are also covered. We will also di…

Willie · Intermediate · 80 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to analyze this traditional hymn and play it with basic triads, perfect for beginners. I also created a more contemporary arrang…

Paul · Professional · 39 min

Learn how to build “4-way close-position rootless voicings” for major, minor, and dominant 7th chords. We will then focus on the specific dominant 7th chords of…

Willie · Professional · 71 min

Using a lesson request from a student, I created an accompaniment lesson on a gospel version of You've Got A Friend. In this 2-part lesson I will show you the r…

Willie · Intermediate · 35 min

Expand your shell vocabulary with root–fifth chord shapes. In this lesson, Willie shows you how to use root–5–root, root–5–7, and root–5–10 shells to create big…

Willie · Intermediate · 55 min

A big part of accompanying yourself or others is knowing how to play in different styles. We will be covering accompaniment patterns for 7 styles in this lesson…

Willie · Professional · 40 min

Smooth jazz version of “Sunny” written by Bobby Hebb. In this lesson you'l learn how to create big, rich two-hand chord voicings that groove so hard over a smoo…

Willie · Intermediate · 22 min

If you can't reach those big stretches, this lesson will help you 'fix' arrangements so you can play them more easily.

Paul · Intermediate · 77 min

In this lesson we focus on a classic Stevie Wonder recording. This popular song uses many "jazz" chords and voicings despite the fact that it is undeniably a po…

Willie · Professional · 59 min

Reharmonization means you are changing the chords, sometimes adding new chords, sometimes changing the existing chords. This gives you the ability to create doz…

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…

Paul · Professional · 59 min

This is a classic James Taylor song that presents some challenging chords not often found in most rock music. You’ll encounter gospel-style chord progressions t…

Paul · Beginner · 42 min

In this lesson you will learn an advanced “turnaround” chord, study the theory of the I, IV, and V chords in the blues form, practice playing and identifying th…