Free Piano Lessons

Your mission...if you choose to accept it...is to master the minor major 7th chord, "the spy chord," including how to use it in your playing!

Learn how to play jazz melodies in the classy Locked Hands piano style (aka "Block Chords") of Milt Buckner made popular by George Shearing.

Learn how to draw on modal interchange to create unique chord progressions with borrowed chords. Then, use borrowed chords in reharmonization.

Create rich polychordal jazz piano voicings using the minor triad as an upper structure for major, minor, dominant, altered dominant sounds.

Learn to comp and improv on "Giant Steps"…one of the most feared and revered jazz tunes. Then master reharmonization using Coltrane changes.

An essential guide for understanding and mastering various two-hand voicings techniques used by jazz pianists when comping in an ensemble.

Learn the “Top 5 Funk Chords Every Pianist Must Know” and funk piano grooves in the style of Herbie Hancock, Bill Withers and Bruno Mars.

The missing chapter on Sixth Chords from your music theory textbook. Discover essential exercises and applications for major 6th & minor 6th chords.