Lesson Library

Willie · Intermediate · 33 min

Learn how to recreate that 50's blues piano sound.

Willie · Intermediate · 75 min

Day 21-30 of the 30-Day Piano Playbook. These lessons will be more difficult than days 1-20 by design to help you find your playing level.

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.

Darby · Professional · 85 min

Jimmy Smith helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music. Learn how to create his signature sound in this lesson.

Willie · Intermediate · 6 min

A quick lesson on how to create a walking bassline.

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…

Willie · Professional · 64 min

In part two, we will be covering techniques in how to comp chords in a group setting and over a bassline.

Willie · Intermediate · 19 min

In this lesson we will focus on putting the melody together with the bassline.

Willie · Intermediate · 62 min

This is the lesson where we learn how to play rootless chords and apply them to the bassline. You'll learn about syncopation and different chord comping techniq…

Willie · Intermediate · 29 min

In this next lesson we will be adding on the melody to the blues song "Ben's Blues." If you want, you can skip this lesson and come back to it later. Learning t…

Willie · Intermediate · 25 min

The key to being a good jazz pianist is knowing how to switch between chords, basslines and other accompaniment patterns quickly. In this first lesson we will b…

Willie · Intermediate · 55 min

In this last lesson we will focus on improvisation. You'll learn how to vocalize rhythms and create licks out of scale blocks. We will cover both the blues scal…

Willie · Professional · 62 min

In this lesson (part 1 of 2) you’ll learn several different basslines that you can use to play a slow blues. Using Stormy Monday as a starting point, these 8 ba…

Willie · Professional · 49 min

If you love Blues piano, this is the course for you. In this course, we are going to spend 8 weeks covering different blues styles and progressions. I’ll show y…

Willie · Professional · 41 min

In this lesson you'll learn about different blues progressions from basic to more advanced jazz/blues progressions. You'll also learn several basslines and lick…

Willie · Professional · 44 min

Learn how to improvise over the Charlie Parker classic song, "Blues For Alice" with a bassline and rootless chords in the right hand, and rootless chords in the…

Willie · Professional · 33 min

In this lesson we focus on how to "activate" our left-hand and make it part of our improvisation.

Willie · Intermediate · 270 min

In this last lesson of this course you will be learning another original piece, "Chicken Pox Blues" which we will use to learn more about the blues and improvis…

Willie · Intermediate · 363 min

The blues is an extremely important form to learn. In this lesson I'll show you the entire blues in C along with a great bassline.

Willie · Intermediate · 48 min

Learn how to vocalize rhythms to make your rhythmic playing stronger. Using my song "Do'h Blues" you'll also learn how to create 7th chords, chord shells and ho…

Willie · Intermediate · 47 min

In this lesson you'll learn my popular song, Kimmy's So Cool. You'll learn the song along with improvisation and I'll show you exactly what you need to practice…

Willie · Intermediate · 429 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to comp chords and improvise over a simple minor-key bassline. We will discuss how to create longer phrases and add rests to you…

Willie · Intermediate · 37 min

In this first lesson we will be covering the basics of improvisation like rhythm, fingering, relaxing, phrasing and more. I'll also show you how to get started…