This course brings you through walking bassline exercises #2-5, each getting more challenging. Topics of discussion include chord tones, scale tones, chromatic…
In this course we’ll be studying some common alternate chords which can be inserted into the standard 12-bar blues progression in order to get that advanced, pr…
This course focuses on bringing the standard 12-bar blues form into a more advanced and diverse chord structure by demonstrating some specific places where alte…
In this lesson you'll learn some of the specific elements of the blues song we created in the last lesson like descending harmony and a must have lick.
In this last lesson we are going to work on how to fill space along with some more advanced concepts like concerted comping and how to take the harmony "outside…
In this lesson you will study the skill of transposition, practice playing the blues arrangement at faster tempos using the jam tracks, learn an intro and class…
The focus for this piece is on diminished lines and motif ideas, with a particular emphasis on the style of Oscar Peterson. The song being analyzed is "All Blue…
This lesson teaches you a great bluesy two-handed comping riff that works over the various dominant chords in a 12-bar blues form. You’ll learn to build the cho…
In this lesson you will learn 2 left-hand basslines and 2 right-hand riffs which you will be able to mix-and-match to create four different two-handed blues gro…
With this exciting blueprint, you'll learn how to use simple chord shells to create simple arrangements for jazz standards. The best part? Once you've mastered…
This is an older lesson of one of my fun original songs, "Kimmy's So Cool" written for a student of mine years ago. Even though this isn't a jazz standard, I th…
Part 2 of the lesson. The secrets for creating rich chords and snappy endings, that are actually used on gigs by professional musicians, are revealed step-by-st…
