Riffs
Learn some of the most popular blues, jazz, boogie and rock and roll riffs to build your solos.
Riffs Content
19 Courses
107 Lessons
48 Smartsheets
Lay it down with this irresistible Rock and Roll Groove! Works over just about any Rock tune from the 50s.
Learn to groove in this lesson with these funky blues piano chords, rhythms, bass line, and a tasty blues riff over the 12-bar blues!
If you love Herbie Hancock and funk piano, then you'll love this easy lesson including a sweet pentatonic funk riff, chords, and funky blues bass line.
Learn this Funk-Gospel jam that uses fat minor 7 chords, 2nd-Inversion Gospel chords, slides, & syncopated bass.
Learn how to play a rockin' boogie woogie piano riff/lick for beginners through advanced players using harmonized turns, boogie-shuffle, & boogie-octaves!
Slides, 3-Note Melodies, 4-Note Melodies
5-Note Melodies, 6-Note Melodies
Multiple Octaves, 6 Super Funky Riffs
The Chord Progression, 4 Left Hand Grooves
A classic Blues arrangement that will teach you how to use tremolos, slides, chord punches and turnarounds. Complete with the Latin Introduction, this course has all the bells and whistles you need to play authentic blues.
Jam on one of the happiest piano progressions ever! In this course, you'll learn the "Happy Monday" Progression plus how to improvise over it with the pentatonic scale, riffs, and harmonized notes.
Jam on one of the happiest piano progressions ever! In this course, you'll learn the "Happy Monday" Progression plus how to improvise over it with the pentatonic scale, riffs, and harmonized notes.
This in-depth soloing course covers scales, single and double note riffs, octave riffs, and runs. Latin inspired melodies are included as the starting point of improvisations.
This in-depth soloing course covers scales, single and double note riffs, octave riffs, and runs. Latin inspired melodies are included as the starting point of improvisations.
A Latin Jazz Cuban style original with Montuno patterns and 2 syncopated left hand bass lines. Watch your hands move like two salsa dancers as you play lush jazz chords and learn to solo.
A Latin Jazz Cuban style original with Montuno patterns and 2 syncopated left hand bass lines. Watch your hands move like two salsa dancers as you play lush jazz chords and learn to solo.
The most comprehensive Funk improv course! Learn the Funk progression, how to build sweet 4, 5, & 6-note lines, funky riffs, and funk left hand bass accompaniments.
Dive into blues soloing with this comprehensive course. Learn 4 left hand accompaniments, slides, turns, rolls, upper/lower positions, Pentatonic lines, big crunchy chords, and more.
The most comprehensive Funk improv course! Learn the Funk progression, how to build sweet 4, 5, & 6-note lines, funky riffs, and funk left hand bass accompaniments.
3 Cool Riffs, 3 Funky Runs
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