Learn to play a nice rendition of "Joy To The World" as Scott proves to you how you can learn a tune quickly without needing to read complicated sheet music or spend weeks practicing.
In this class, you will need to stretch out from our most basic technique of reading a lead sheet and will learn some new techniques for your left and right hands.
Class 2: Let's Learn the Blues!
In this class, you will learn the basics of the "Blues Chord Progression" that is used in literally hundreds of thousand of tunes.
Class 3: A New Way to Play Chords
In this class, you will learn a new way to play chords utilizing a fun pattern.
Class 4: Learning How Chords Are Constructed
In this class, you will learn the "nuts and bolts" of how chords are constructed.
Class 5: Learning a New Chord "Flavor": Minor
In this class, you will learn how to "officially" name the black keys and will also explore inversions.
Class 6: More Twisting & Shouting
In this class, you will explore chord substitutions, learn a new guitar riff & an alternative to playing full, left hand chords.
Class 7: Accompaniment Style Vs. Solo Style
In this class, you will learn how you can split a tune between your two hands in accompaniment style.
Class 8: Celebration Week!
In this class, you will learn how to play a decent rendition of "Auld Lang Syne" and gain a couple of new right and left hand techniques along the way that you can apply to other songs too.
In this class you will learn to play the song, "What a Wonderful World" while learning about the "Major Third Interval."
Class 2: New Chord Flavor—Augmented
In this class you will learn to play the song, "What a Wonderful World" while learning about the "Major Third Interval."
Class 3: New Chord Flavor—Diminished
In this class you will learn a couple of terrific RH effects as you work your way through the song, "Bali Haiz" as well as exploring a new chord family.
Class 4: Dominant 7th VS. Major 7th—Say What?
In this class we will explore the difference between a Major 7th and a Dominant 7th.
Class 5: A Familiar Ending, Amen
In this class you will work though the "interval of the fourth" as you learn a very popular ending—The Amen Ending.
Class 6: A Vamp on Broadway
In this class we will learn about an interesting technique called a "Vamp."
Class 7: Clowning Around with a Second
In this class we will focus on "phrasing" as we explore the interval of the second and "triplets" as we work through the song, "Send in the Clowns."
Class 8: Celebration Week!
In this class you will learn how to play a nice rendition of "The Christmas Song" as well as learning about a new interval: The Interval of the Octave.
In this class you will learn about the Major Scale—how it helps our playing and some tips for practicing the Major scale starting on different notes.
Class 2: Just a Minor Thing about Scales
In this class you will learn about the three different types of minor scales although our focus will be on the basic natural minor scales.
Class 3: When in Doubt—"Pent Out"
In this class we will focus on how the Major and minor Pentatonic Scales can help your playing.
Class 4: Time to Jam on Some Blues
In this class you will be exposed to the Blues Scale, the 12 Bar Blues Progression and will learn a great Boogie Woogie left hand pattern.
Class 5: My What a Lovely Voicing You Have
In this class you will gain an understanding of Open and Closed Voicings.
Class 6: A Couple of New Chord Flavors
In this class you are going to learn how to use 2 new chord flavors—Major and Minor 9th Chords.
Class 7: A Few Classic Endings
In this class you will learn a couple of terrific, classic endings that will help you get out of tunes with a flair!
Class 8: Celebration Time—How Do I Know What to Play?
In this class you will get some helpful guidelines you can use now to help you plan your own arrangements to make the tunes you are playing "Your Own."
In this class you will learn about a new chord flavor called "sus" chords and learn a great new lick!
Class 2: New Chord Flavors: 9th and 13th Chords
In this class you will learn two new chord flavors and a couple of great blues voicings.
Class 3: More New Chord Flavors
In this class you will learn about slash, altered and Minor/Major Seventh Chords that will help take your playing to the next level.
Class 4: Introduction to Improvisation
In this class we will open the door to improvisation. Specifically we will explore how to use embellishment, fills, soloing and adding a walking bass line to make the melody your own creation.
Class 5: Playing by Ear
In this class we will focus on how to play by ear!
Class 6: More on Transposing
In this class we will build on our prior knowledge of transposing and move into modulating with turnarounds.
Class 7: How to Play with a Bass Player
In this class you will learn how to play with a bass player!
Class 8: Wrapping up Some Final Loose Ends
In this class you will learn some improvisation starter patterns and endings that you can use with your favorite tunes.
