Lesson Library

Mike · Intermediate · 81 min

Our Jazzedge resident drummer, Mike Marble, will be challenging your rhythm skills in this live training session. He will work with you on rhythm sight-reading…

Paul · Intermediate · 93 min

In this class, Paul will feature a new pop tune each session and help students learn the song through the use of performance, active listening, discussion, anal…

Mike · Intermediate · 66 min

Our Jazzedge resident drummer, Mike Marble, will be challenging your rhythm skills in this live training session. He will work with you on rhythm sight-reading…

Mike · Intermediate · 68 min

Our Jazzedge resident drummer, Mike Marble, will be challenging your rhythm skills in this live training session. He will work with you on rhythm sight-reading…

Mike · Intermediate · 67 min

Our Jazzedge resident drummer, Mike Marble, will be challenging your rhythm skills in this live training session. He will work with you on rhythm sight-reading…

Mike · Intermediate · 69 min

Our Jazzedge resident drummer, Mike Marble, will be challenging your rhythm skills in this live training session. He will work with you on rhythm sight-reading…

Willie · Beginner · 20 min

This lesson will show you how to use guide tones in your improvisation over Beautiful Love.

Willie · Intermediate · 24 min

In this lesson we will move away from the blues and instead focus on the classic jazz standard "Beautiful Love." You'll learn the progression and how to form ro…

Willie · Intermediate · 29 min

In this lesson you'll learn the scales needed for improvisation over "Beautiful Love."

Paul · Beginner · 46 min

This lesson focuses on some great rock piano comping techniques using Adele’s smash hit “Make You Feel My Love,” already a classic rock piano ballad. But in add…

Willie · Intermediate · 207 min

In this lesson you'll learn some killer voicings that I love to us for the standard "My Ship."

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 · 64 min

For this lesson, I transcribed (3) choruses from a YouTube video featuring a Ray Charles bebop blues. In the lesson I will teach you step-by-step each of the ch…

Willie · Beginner · 58 min

Wondering how to start that song? Need a cool ending? This series will teach you some of the intros and endings that I have come to love. We will break each exa…

Willie · Intermediate · 67 min

This fun song has been played by many and is a very popular and famous cuban song. In this lesson I will teach you several different left-hand accompaniment pat…

Willie · Intermediate · 59 min

In this lesson I'll teach you the analysis for Jobim's Girl From Ipanema. I will also show you a few re-harmonization techniques. We will also cover how to impr…

Willie · Professional · 75 min

In this lesson, I create an original song using a nice chord progression that I heard on the radio from a song called "Richard Tee". It's gospel-blues infused s…

Willie · Intermediate

In this lesson we will use the chord progression to Summer Samba to learn how to create that cool, relaxed Bossa Nova beat. We will also cover how to add fills…

Willie · Professional · 72 min

In this "Romantic," rubato-style version I will show you step-by-step the improvisation of the song and how to use arpeggios in your songs to create flourishes,…

Willie · Beginner · 51 min

This is an older lesson of one of my fun original songs, "Kimmy's So Cool" written for a student of mine years ago. Even though this isn't a jazz standard, I th…

Willie · Intermediate · 70 min

Somos Novios is a beautiful ballad by Mexican composer Armando Manzanero. We will break down the chords, learn the analysis and talk about how to move this into…

Willie · Professional · 61 min

Learn this classic bossa nova arrangement. We will cover arranging techniques like harmonizing diminished chords and incorporating some montunos at the end.

Willie · Intermediate · 72 min

In this lesson, I have re-worked the melody of Jobim’s classic Corcovado. I will teach you the entire arrangement along with improvisation scales and tips!

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…