Lesson Library

Willie · Intermediate · 52 min

Learn how to improvise over our "Just Standards" songs in this class. This is a beginner-level class so you do not need any experience in order to get started i…

Willie · Intermediate · 33 min

Learn how to improvise over our "Just Standards" songs in this class. This is an advanced-level class so you should have already gone through several major scal…

Willie · Intermediate · 38 min

Learn how to improvise over our "Just Standards" songs in this class. This is a beginner-level class so you do not need any experience in order to get started i…

Willie · Intermediate · 100 min

Welcome to "Just Standards," a new iteration of my popular Standards by the Dozen™ series. In this exciting new series of live classes, Just Standards offers a…

Willie · Intermediate · 49 min

In this lesson we will now use chord arpeggios to expand our improvisation.

Willie · Beginner · 50 min

In this first PACE lesson we will be covering triads and inversions. We start in a rock style and over the next several weeks shift toward jazz and blues chords…

Willie · Intermediate · 54 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to start improvising over a new standard and the steps you should take to get started.

Willie · Intermediate · 14 min

In this lesson you'll learn three easy introductions you can use in your blues and jazz playing.

Willie · Professional · 13 min

In this lesson you'll learn three advanced introductions you can use for your blues improvisations.

Willie · Professional · 12 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to use 4-note chord cells for improvisation over the blues. This is part 2.

Willie · Professional · 16 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to use 4-note chord cells for improvisation over the blues. This is part 1.

Willie · Professional · 15 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to "shell out" your improvisation using guide tones. This is the first step to creating longer, more interesting bebop and jazz…

Willie · Beginner · 13 min

Learn how to use licks, tetrachords and the blues scale to improvise over the blues form.

Willie · Beginner · 15 min

Learn how to use licks, tetrachords and the blues scale to improvise over the blues form.

Willie · Professional · 11 min

In this lesson, we will take the licks we learned in lesson 6 and apply them to the blues form.

Willie · Professional · 16 min

In this lesson, we will take the licks we learned in lesson 6 and apply them to the blues form.

Willie · Beginner · 11 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to comp chords in your left hand while playing a rhythmic improvisation in your right.

Willie · Beginner · 63 min

In this lesson, you'll learn three critical aspects of improvisation: Accompaniment, Rhythm and Licks. By combining together these three elements, you'll see ho…

Willie · Professional · 70 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to create improvisation ideas over a minor chord progression. You'll also learn four different rootless chord voicings and what…

Willie · Intermediate · 76 min

Another condensed lesson to help you improvise over leadsheets quickly. We will cover the major scale, simplified rhythms, arpeggios, chromaticism, approaches a…

Willie · Intermediate · 54 min

In this lesson, I'll give you techniques that will help you improvise over chord progressions more easily.

Willie · Professional · 131 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to improvise in 5 steps. These five steps make it easier for you to create a solo quickly without getting bogged down with too m…

Willie · Intermediate · 42 min

In this lesson you'll learn how to improvise over the arrangement of "Jordu" we just created.

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…