4 Steps to Play Cocktail Blues Piano

What is cocktail blues piano? You can use these 4 steps to master this specific dialect of cocktail jazz to add some bluesy personality to your sound.

6 Steps to Play Beginner Blues Piano

This blues lesson is like no other. You will get more beginner blues piano mileage out of 2 chords and 4 notes than you thought possible with these 6 steps!

Hark the Herald Angels Sing – Jazz Ballad 2

Learn an advanced jazz ballad piano arrangement of Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Starting with the lead sheet, we’ll learn the melody & chords, how to stylize the left hand, how to harmonize the right hand, and other advanced jazzy techniques.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing – Jazz Ballad 1

Learn how to play Hark the Herald Angels Sing in a jazz ballad piano style. Starting with the lead sheet, we’ll learn the melody, chords, how to stylize the left hand, how to harmonize the right hand, and other jazzy techniques.

Building Jazz Vocabulary with “the Rock Climber”

Learn the techniques to expand your jazz vocabulary with three useful exercises. First Austin explains how to play arpeggios over all the changes. Next, he covers the “Rock Climber” exercise, and finally he provides a brief overview of “upper structures.”

O Holy Night Contemporary Piano – 2

Learn an advanced contemporary arrangement of O Holy Night. Starting with the lead sheet, we’ll learn the melody & chords, how to stylize the left hand, how to harmonize the right hand, and other advanced contemporary techniques.

O Holy Night Contemporary Piano – 1

Learn how to play O Holy Night in a contemporary piano style. Starting with the lead sheet, we’ll learn the melody, chords, how to stylize the left hand, harmonize the right hand, and other accompaniment techniques.

Summertime – Slow Blues 2

Learn how to craft a slow jazzy blues piano arrangement of George Gershwin’s classic tune “Summertime.” Using the lead sheet, we’ll stylize the left hand chords, embellish the right hand melody, compose an intro/outro, and complete the arrangement with an advanced solo!

How to Compose a Piano Waltz

Learn how to compose a beautiful jazz waltz with Jonny’s essential arranging techniques. We’ll master left hand accompaniments, melodic writing, and harmonization.

How to Play a Funk Piano Solo

Learn to play a funk piano solo using essential techniques for beginner and intermediate pianists such as Funky 4ths, Stacked 4ths and the C Blues Scale.

Key of E Major – In the Country

Learn the most important fundamentals for the Key of E Major with the scale, diatonic chords, and common chord progressions. Then put it all together with an original tune, “In the Country.”