Lesson Library

Paul · Intermediate · 46 min

Learn the blues from the ground up. After this class with Paul, you will feel confident in your understanding of the blues and how to create your own blues impr…

Paul · Intermediate · 30 min

Learn the blues from the ground up. After this class with Paul, you will feel confident in your understanding of the blues and how to create your own blues impr…

Paul · Intermediate · 43 min

Learn the blues from the ground up. After this class with Paul, you will feel confident in your understanding of the blues and how to create your own blues impr…

Paul · Intermediate · 43 min

Learn the blues from the ground up. After this class with Paul, you will feel confident in your understanding of the blues and how to create your own blues impr…

Nina · Intermediate · 78 min

Modal soloing over "Little Sunflower" involves using modal scales to create melodic lines that complement the harmonic structure of the piece. "Little Sunflower…

Nina · Intermediate · 91 min

The focus of the lesson is on walking tenths bass lines and double triads. The song being studied is "Blue Monk."

Nina · Intermediate · 84 min

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…

Nina · Intermediate · 86 min

The focus of this lesson is on pentatonic scales, blues riffs, and two-handed voicings. The song used for demonstration and practice is "All Blues."

Nina · Intermediate · 76 min

Jitterbug Waltz

Willie · Intermediate · 26 min

In this lesson I'll show you how to use the bluesy pentatonic scale to create more improvisation licks over the blues. We will play these licks over both the ba…

Willie · Professional · 14 min

Quartal comping is a great way to play full, lush chords in both hands that are a great accompaniment.

Willie · Beginner · 7 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to master your chords using this simple randomization technique.

Paul · Beginner · 23 min

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…

Paul · Professional · 73 min

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…

Paul · Professional · 58 min

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.

Paul · Professional · 53 min

In this lesson you are going to be using chord substitutions in a 12 bar blues form to create a full blues "song" with bassline.

Paul · Intermediate · 57 min

Use the 2 left-hand basslines and 2 right-hand riffs to create a total of four blues grooves. Work with the rock and shuffle jam tracks, transpose the grooves t…

Paul · Intermediate · 41 min

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…

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…

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…

Paul · Professional · 39 min

In this lesson we will build on the blues concepts we have already studied with the goal being to create an entire blues arrangement. You will learn a right-han…

Paul · Professional · 66 min

This course brings you through walking bassline exercises #2-5, each getting more challenging. Topics of discussion include chord tones, scale tones, chromatic…

Paul · Professional · 41 min

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…

Paul · Professional · 34 min

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…