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The hardest part in learning a new site is getting started.
I suggest starting with these courses first:

1) 12-Keys Quick Reference

This course is a quick reference for each of the 12 keys. We will cover: The Major Scale - Triads - Other Triads - Seventh Chords - Rootless Chords - Chord Tensions, and - 2-5-1 Progressions in both major and minor.

Lessons in this course:

  • Quick Reference - Key of C
  • Quick Reference - Key of G
  • Quick Reference - Key of D
  • Quick Reference - Key of A
  • Quick Reference - Key of E
  • Quick Reference - Key of F
  • Quick Reference - Key of B Flat
  • Quick Reference - Key of E Flat
  • Quick Reference - Key of A Flat
  • Quick Reference - Key of D Flat
  • Quick Reference - Key of B
  • Quick Reference - Key of F Sharp
  • Quick Reference Tips (Checklist)

Course duration = 03:21:21

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2) Piano Essentials (Beginner)

Learn your essential scales, chords and progression in this in-depth course. This beginner course focuses on the 6 keys you should master first. Once complete, move on to the advanced course.

Lessons in this course:

  • Pain, Tension and Technique
  • Piano Essentials Key of C
  • Piano Essentials Key of G
  • Foundations For Beginners – Technique
  • Piano Essentials Key of D
  • Piano Essentials Key of A
  • Piano Essentials Key of B Flat
  • Piano Essentials Key of F
  • Piano Essentials Practice Tips

Course duration = 04:31:38

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3) Rhythm Essentials

In this course you will learn how to improve your rhythm at the piano. Using a combination of my easy vocalization approach, exercises, examples and tips you'll be on your way to becoming what I call a “Total Musician.”

Lessons in this course:

  • Exercises in 7/8 (Willie Answers)
  • Mastering Rhythms - Vol. 2
  • Mastering Rhythms - Vol. 1
  • Rhythm Foundations
  • Mastering Rhythms - The Basics
  • 5 Must Have Rhythms

Course duration = 05:09:08

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4) No Bull Guide To Jazz Piano™ (Beginner)

To celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month, my No Bull Guide to Jazz Piano™ will show you how to improvise like a jazz player! This beginner course will teach you how to improvise, even if you have never improvised before! Course too easy? Check out my advanced course.

Lessons in this course:

  • NBGJP Prep Lesson
  • Master Every Chord At The Piano Using This Exercise
  • Lesson #1 - 3 Basic Rhythms
  • Lesson #2 - 12 Bar Blues Form and Chords
  • Lesson #3 - Anyone Can Play The 12-Bar Blues
  • Lesson #4 - Chord Shells
  • Lesson #5 - Comping Chords
  • Lesson #6 - Comping & Rhythmic Improvisation
  • Lesson #7 - Jam Over The Blues
  • Lesson #8 - The Blues Scale Demystified
  • Lesson #9 - How To Improvise Over The Blues
  • Lesson #10 - How To Improvise Over The Blues Part 2
  • Lesson #11 - Blues Notes and Licks Part 1
  • Lesson #12 - Blues Notes and Licks Part 2
  • Lesson #13 - Blues Triplet Rhythm
  • Lesson #14 - Blues Rolls, Tremolos and Grace Notes
  • Lesson #15 - Blues Double Stops
  • Lesson #16 - Minor Blues Progression with Rootless Chords
  • Lesson #17 - How To Play a Easy Bass Line for Minor Blues
  • Lesson #18 - How to Improvise Over Minor Blues
  • Lesson #19 - Alternate Minor Blues Bassline
  • Lesson #20 - Rhythms To Make Your Improv Sound Advanced
  • Lesson #21 - Jazz Walking Bass Made Easy
  • Lesson #22 - Easy Boogie-Woogie Bass
  • Lesson #23 -Boogie-Woogie Bass With Licks
  • Lesson #24 -Three Easy Blues Intros
  • Lesson #25 -Three Easy Blues Endings
  • Lesson #26 - 5 Blues Improvisation Scales
  • Lesson #27 - 5 Killer Blues Licks Part 1
  • Lesson #28 - 5 Killer Blues Licks Part 2
  • Lesson #29 - Easy Blues Piano Pentatonic Licks
  • Lesson #30 - How To Use All That You've Learned in This Course

Course duration = 09:07:33

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5) Step-By-Step Improvisation Over Standards

In this course you'll learn how to really improvise over standards. We begin with our Improvisation Guide which shows you what lessons and courses you should learn if you're new to improvisation. Next, we begin improvising over standards "Easy Living" and "My Romance" so you see real-world examples of how to create a solo.

Lessons in this course:

  • Beginner's Guide
  • Analysis and Starting Improv
  • Altered and 1/2 Whole Diminished Scales
  • Chord-Tone Boulders
  • Play and Rest
  • Targeting
  • Rhythmic Improvisation Map
  • Fingering And Flow
  • Chords and Accompaniment
  • Improvising Over A New Standard From Scratch
  • My Romance Improv Part 1
  • My Romance Improv Part 2
  • Just The Way You Are - Part 1
  • Just The Way You Are - Part 2
  • Wrap Up and Student Questions

Course duration = 17:08:19

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6) No Bull Guide To Jazz Piano™ (Advanced)

In this advanced course, you'll take your jazz playing up a level by learning how to form rootless chords, comp and improvise over a more complicated blues progression. Course too difficult? Check out my beginner course.

Lessons in this course:

  • Guide Tones & Rootless Chords
  • Lesson #1 - Guide Tones and Blues Chords
  • Lesson #2 - Guide Tones with Added 9th Rootless Chords
  • Lesson #3 - Simplified Rootless Jazz Chords
  • Lesson #4 - Jazz Comping Made Easy
  • Lesson #5 - Minor Pentatonic and Blues Scales
  • Lesson #6 - How To Create Jazz Licks
  • Lesson #7 - Improvising Over The Blues Part 1
  • Lesson #8 - Improvising Over The Blues Part 2
  • Lesson #9 - Blues Fills and Turns Part 1
  • Lesson #10 - Blues Fills and Turns Part 2
  • Lesson #11 - Blues Fills and Turns Part 3
  • Lesson #12 - Blues Improvisation Guide Tones
  • Lesson #13 - Neighbor Tones & Enclosures
  • Lesson #14 - How To Use Enclosures for Improv
  • Lesson #15 - Blues Bebop Improvisation
  • Lesson #16 - Latin Jazz / Swing Blues
  • Lesson #17 - How To Play Jazz & Blues Basslines
  • Lesson #18 - Jazz Piano Quartal Comping
  • Lesson #19 - Improvise Using Chord Cells Part 1
  • Lesson #20 - Improvise Using Chord Cells Part 2
  • Lesson #21 - Altered And Diminished Scales for Improvisation
  • Lesson #22 - Altered and Diminished Scale Cells
  • Lesson #23 - Mixolydian and Diminished Jazz Etude
  • Lesson #24 - Three Advanced Blues Intros
  • Lesson #25 - Three Advanced Blues Endings
  • Lesson #26 - Blues Turnaround Progressions
  • Lesson #27 - Upper Structure Chord Voicings Part 1
  • Lesson #28 - Upper Structure Chord Voicings Part 2
  • Lesson #29 - 5 Ideas to Improve Your Jazz Solos

Course duration = 08:20:52

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7) Learn Jazz Piano (The Basics)

This is my Ben's Blues lesson. In this course you'll learn the basics of becoming a jazz piano player. We use the 12-bar blues to learn bass lines, rootless chords and improvisation. All the basics a budding jazz pianist needs in his or her toolbox.

Lessons in this course:

  • Ben's Blues Part 1
  • Ben's Blues Part 2
  • Ben's Blues Part 3
  • Ben's Blues Part 4
  • Hand Coordination Technique for Improv
  • Ben's Blues - Melody With Bassline

Course duration = 03:49:54

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8) How To Play Standards

If you have never played a standard before, start here to learn the different layers to create an arrangement of a standard and learn to improvise over it. This course is also home to my 12 Days of Jazz Standards lesson featuring "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square."

Lessons in this course:

  • 4-Layer Standards
  • How to Play Standards
  • How to Improvise Over Standards
  • 12 Days of Jazz Standards

Course duration = 05:54:38

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9) No Bull Piano™

My No Bull Piano™ course features lessons that strip away the B.S. that bloats other methods. Learn new techniques, clearly explained, that you can use right away in your piano playing.

Lessons in this course:

  • Effortless Minor Improvisation
  • Anyone Can Improvise in 3 Easy Steps (For Beginners)
  • No Bull Piano Webinars
  • How To Play Blues For Hours

Course duration = 05:05:57

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