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Willie · Professional · 70 min

In this lesson, I will show you how to arrange the classic standard Stella By Starlight in a Ballad style. We will also focus on how to comp and accompany. This…

Willie · Professional · 76 min

Learn how to create and extend your chord progressions. Have you ever been asked to just "wing it" and create a chord progression? Well, now you'll have some te…

Willie · Professional · 72 min

In this lesson you'll learn different improvisation and arranging techniques over Horace Silver's "Song For My Father." Techniques like delayed resolution and b…

Willie · Beginner · 66 min

"Preacher Chords" help fill out any song and backup worship leaders. However, to use them effectively, you need to know your theory! In this lesson, we are goin…

Willie · Professional · 59 min

Learn how to fill out those one-chord-per-measure sections. We will create an arrangement and you will learn how to add chords and reharm to make a richer arran…

Willie · Beginner · 59 min

Learn the arrangement of this classic tango song. You’ll also learn different tango accompaniment patterns and arranging techniques. We will cover improvisation…

Willie · Intermediate · 4 min

In this lesson you will learn 15 cool Blues licks. Each lick is presented with minimal talking, so you can get right into learning and applying these licks into…

Willie · Intermediate · 54 min

"Bésame Mucho" ("Kiss me a lot") is a song written in 1940 by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velázquez. I will show you this beautiful song note-for-note. I will a…

Willie · Professional · 89 min

In this lesson I cover several different modulation techniques that you can use to move between keys. I use the songs Amazing Grace and What A Friend We Have in…

Willie · Professional · 60 min

A fun original latin song that will teach you more about latin music and montunos.

Willie · Intermediate · 110 min

Expanding upon what we did in Volume 1, Volume 2 will cover take-off and landing notes, approaches, tensions, minor chords, rhythmic segmenting and more. We wil…

Willie · Intermediate · 85 min

This classic song covers how to re-harmonize the song and improvise over it. I’ll also teach the arrangement note-for-note. Some of the concepts we will cover i…

Willie · Professional · 87 min

Learn how to improvise over funk grooves. This first part discusses chord voicings, comping and scales for improv.

Willie · Intermediate · 179 min

Willie · Professional · 86 min

Learn my arrangement of the holiday favorite, "Chestnuts Roasting on An Open Fire". I will also cover some "runs" and "fills."

Willie · Professional · 73 min

Learn how to make ordinary chords sound super fat using these techniques. You'll also learn many bassline tricks too!

Willie · Professional · 82 min

In this video, I brought in my good friend Thomas Brinkley to teach along with me. Learn from our experience playing together and with other groups.

Willie · Professional · 39 min

Continuing where we left off, this master class will show you a very slick chord progression along with some soloing and groove concepts. This is the wrap-up wh…

Willie · Intermediate

This lesson is designed for intermediate/advanced level players that want to take their improvisation to the "next level" and sound more modern in their approac…

Willie · Professional · 97 min

These Jazz and Gospel exercises will teach you many 2-5-1 exercises, pentatonic exercises, playing outside along with Gospel grooves. This is an older lesson bu…

Willie · Beginner · 39 min

In this lesson, I will show you how to improve your rhythm using my easy vocalization approach! Even though this is an older lesson (check out that hair!) you'l…

Willie · Intermediate · 130 min

In this lesson, I’ll teach you how to improvise over the standard Autumn Leaves. I’ll also show you different practicing tricks to make it easier to learn the s…

Willie · Intermediate · 250 min

These 25 lessons are a great place to start your JazzPianoLessons.com experience. Only a few of the lessons have a handout. For many, you'll want to get the Rea…

Willie · Intermediate

This is the place to start if you want to learn the basics of Blues & Boogie piano playing. I'll teach you the "basic" shuffle groove and show you some licks to…