What you'll learn
- Play a 12 bar blues progression
- Play a blues bass line
- Improvise over the blues
- Create your own licks
- Create your own composition
- Create fills, runs and endings
Requirements
- You will need a piano or keyboard in order to take this course
- Being able to read music is helpful but not necessary for this course
- Most of all...have the patience and willingness to practice. It doesn't happen overnight!
Description
Want to add more jazz and blues style of playing to your repertoire?
This course is an excellent place to start if you have some experience playing the piano but would like to move into the Jazz and Blues Style of playing. In this course you will begin by brushing up on the basics:
piano chords
comping
bass lines
improvisation
Each chapter covers a topic completely so that you can watch it over and over until you are ready to move on at your own pace! Topics include:
the 12 bar blues progression
rhythm techniques
chord voicings
blues basslines
bassline approaches
comping chords
improvising over the blues
creating licks
coupling exercises
licks with bassline
creating your own composition
fills, runs and endings.
After you have learned each exercise you will be able to easily put it all together and transition what you have learned to other songs in your repertoire.
The bassline pattern that you'll learn in this lesson is critical. Not kidding, you will use this technique for years to come. I still use these concepts on gigs to this day.
I'll see you inside the course!
~Willie
Who this course is for:
- Students with at least 1 year of piano experience
Course content
- 00:03Lesson Resources
Instructor
![Willie Myette](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 1,220 Reviews
- 6,933 Students
- 35 Courses
Willie has toured both the U.S. and Europe as clinician and performer. He is a graduate of the well renowned Berklee College of Music. He has studied in New York with Fred Hersch and in Boston with Ray Santisi. Willie has produced three recordings as bandleader and his music has been featured radio stations nationwide.
Willie is also the founder of PianoWithWillie, an online teaching website that makes it easy to learn Jazz, Blues, Gospel Piano and more online.
The PianoWithWillie method has taught students from all around the globe. By combining foundational and fun'dational elements, Willie's students are able to learn how to become a self-expressive pianist very quickly.
"I learned as a kid that the best part of learning the piano is playing the piano." says Willie. Using the PianoWithWillie method and Willie's step-by-step lessons, it is possible and easier than you think to become a pianist.