Lesson Library

Willie · Professional · 18 min

In this lesson we will learn how to move from latin back to a swing feel to change styles in our blues playing.

Paul · Professional · 77 min

This lesson is all about creating improvisation ideas. You'll learn several licks and also some advanced topics like displacing the beat.

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 · 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 · 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 · 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…

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 · 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 · 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…

Willie · Professional · 59 min

In this first lesson, you'll learn about rhythm in improvisation and how to create improvisation lines using proper fingering and dynamics. You'll also learn so…

Willie · Professional · 11 min

Learn this cool jazz/gospel chord progression along with analysis.

Paul · Professional · 35 min

Part 2 of the lesson.

Paul · Professional · 54 min

You will learn how to learn the process to memorize jazz tunes. Also he will teach you how to transpose the song into another key. You will have a very specific…

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 · 38 min

Learn how to improvise over the song "Fly Me To The Moon" with different exercises designed to help you focus your improvisation choices.

Willie · Professional · 45 min

Learn how to create a "solo blues" arrangement. This means you will create an accompaniment in the left hand while improvising in the right.

Willie · Professional · 33 min

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

Willie · Professional · 35 min

In this lesson you'll learn an improvisation over "In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning" with rootless chords and quartals in the left-hand.

Willie · Professional · 37 min

Learn how to target notes in your improvisation to make a more cohesive sounding improv. We will also discuss how NOT to be your own worst critic so you can thr…

Willie · Professional · 27 min

Learn how to create groupings of notes to create a hemiola effect in which the beat shifts between duple and triple.

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 · 42 min

In this lesson you'll learn a really cool minor chord progression and how to play it with two-handed chord voicings and an easy bassline.

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…