Lesson Library

Willie · Intermediate · 52 min

Dominant motion is the strongest chordal motion in Western music. Learn how to use this technique to expand your chord progressions.

Willie · Beginner · 24 min

Putting Chords to a Simple Melody. For this lesson we will be using the melody of “Early One Morning” and learning how to put chords to the arrangement. These t…

Willie · Beginner · 39 min

This lesson is perfect for those of you who are too busy to always find time to practice at the piano. Learn techniques that you can practice away from the pian…

Willie · Intermediate · 61 min

In this lesson, I’ll share my tips, tricks and techniques that I use to pick out songs and chord progressions by ear. I’ll also show you how to use a mix of you…

Willie · Professional · 80 min

In this first lesson on Melodic Minor Harmony, we will go through each mode of the scale. I will give you examples from some jazz standards, but also show you h…

Willie · Intermediate · 48 min

With this incredible blueprint, you'll learn how to practice using a multimodal approach which means you'll learn your theory, chords and scales FASTER than any…

Willie · Intermediate · 23 min

The ii-V-I (2-5-1) chord progression is one of the most popular and important in jazz. In this lesson you'll learn different ways to improvise over 2-5-1 progre…

Willie · Intermediate · 26 min

Learn the 3 basic types of 7th chords that you must know. Learn about adding tensions to the chords and how to play the chords using two-hands along with shells…

Willie · Beginner · 38 min

Learn Root-7 chord shells along with how to form all types of seventh chords.

Willie · Beginner · 50 min

Learn the basics of Jazz by vocalizing rhythms, the eighth note rhythm, simple accompaniments and chord shells.

Willie · Professional · 78 min

Using the song Everything Happens to Me (pg 85 Realbook 3) you'll learn how to add motion to your chords to create a more advanced arrangement that fills the sp…

Willie · Intermediate · 207 min

In this lesson you'll learn some killer voicings that I love to us for the standard "My Ship."

Willie · Professional · 60 min

In this lesson I'll review homework from students. We are no longer accepting new homework assignments but this is a FANTASTIC way to see what other students ha…

Willie · Professional · 59 min

Related ii chords precede your dominant chords to extend your progressions.

Willie · Professional · 47 min

Using the standard "My Ship" we will work on Upper Structure Triads. UST's (for short) are the life-blood of advanced reharmonizations and you want to work on t…

Willie · Professional · 80 min

We start this lesson reviewing student arrangements and homework. At about 34min in we start working on the song "There Is No Greater Love."

Willie · Professional · 14 min

Using the standard "My Ship" we will review the techniques we have been using up to this point to create an arrangement.

Willie · Professional · 49 min

Learn major and minor dominant upper structure triads with examples from “Days of Wine and Roses”, “Misty”, “My ship”, and “Prelude to a Kiss." A helpful Upper…

Willie · Professional · 21 min

Learn the basics about what are Upper Structure Triads and how to use them.

Paul · Professional · 32 min

In this lesson, you will get an inside look into creating a reharmonized, solo piano jazz arrangement of the pop tune “Every Breath You Take”. If you're interes…

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…

Paul · Intermediate · 83 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…

Paul · Intermediate · 70 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…

Paul · Intermediate · 71 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…