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This little site has retired — but the music lives on. The complete Modern Blues for Keyboard course — all 49 free lessons on theory, licks, harmonies, and two-handed techniques for piano and organ — is now on YouTube:

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▶ Modern Blues Left Hand — the full-length (2 hr 48 min) left-hand masterclass.

All 49 Lessons

1. Modern Blues - Lesson 1 - About blues tutorial. and degrees of the music scale.
2. Modern Blues - Lesson 2 - Chord Functionality
3. Modern Blues - Lesson 3 - Chord Inversions
4. Modern Blues - Lesson 4 - Voice Leading
5. Modern Blues Lesson 005 - Ninth Chord
6. Modern Blues - Lesson 6 - Eleventh and Thirteenth Chords
7. Modern Blues - Lesson 007 - G13th and C9th Chords with bass line example
8. Modern Blues - Lesson 008 - Gospel Licks
9. Modern Blues Lesson 009 - Sus 4 Chord
10. Modern Blues - Lesson 010 - Hot, Two-Handed Funk
11. Modern Blues Lesson 011 - Two-Handed Power Lick
12. Modern Blues - Lesson 012 - Voicing chords using Fourths
13. Modern Blues - Lesson 013 - Constant Structures
14. Modern Blues - Lesson 014 - World's Fattest Blues Chord
15. Modern Blues - Lesson 015 - The Circle of Fifths
16. Modern Blues - Lesson 016 - Secondary Dominants
17. Modern Blues Lesson 017 - Example of Generic Song Using Circle of Fifths
18. Modern Blues - Lesson 018 - II, V, I Chord Progression using Augmented 9TH Chord with a flat 13th
19. Modern Blues - Lesson 019 - Blues Progression and the Circle of Fifths used in Blues Turnarounds
20. Modern Blues - Lesson 020 - Tritones
21. Modern Blues - Lesson 021 - Playing the Blues with Tritones
22. Modern Blues - Lesson 022 - Tritone Substitutions
23. Modern Blues - Lesson 023 - The Blues Scale
24. Modern Blues - Lesson 024 - Minor Pentatonic Scale
25. Modern Blues - Lesson 025 - Major Pentatonic Scale
26. Modern Blues - Lesson 026 - Major Pentatonic Scale with an Approach Note to the Third
27. Modern Blues - Lesson 027 - Combining Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales
28. Modern Blues - Lesson 028 - 6th from Major Scale and flat 3rd from the Blues Scale - G13#11 Chord
29. Modern Blues - Lesson 029 - Playing with Chord changes - using riffs from different scales
30. Modern Blues - Lesson 030 - Playing with Chord changes - phrases from different scales
31. Modern Blues - Lesson 031 - Mixolydian Scale. Also, playing in 6ths.
32. Modern Blues - Lesson 032 - Dorian Scale - Triplets - G minor 7th chord with added 11th
33. Modern Blues - Lesson 033 - Playing Chord Tones with Your Solo Notes
34. Modern Blues - Lesson 034 - Diminished Scale
35. Modern Blues - Lesson 035 - Diminished Licks played over D# Augmented 9th and D Augmented 9th Chords
36. Modern Blues - Lesson 036 - Funky Diminished Licks
37. Modern Blues - Lesson 037 - Blues Harmonies - 1st example
38. Modern Blues - Lesson 038 - Blues Harmonies - 2nd example
39. Modern Blues - Lesson 039 - Blues Harmonies - 3rd example using diminished
40. Modern Blues - Lesson 040 - Harmony Combinations
41. Modern Blues - Lesson 041 - Blues Harmonies Continued
42. Modern Blues - Lesson 042 - Riffs Unique to Keyboards
43. Modern Blues Lesson 043 - Additional Licks - Part 1
44. Modern Blues Lesson 044 - Additional Licks - Part 2
45. Modern Blues - Lesson 045 - Additional Licks - Part 3
46. Modern Blues - Lesson 046 - Additional Licks - Part 4
47. Modern Blues - Lesson 047 - Flashy Techniques
48. Modern Blues - Lesson 048 - Arrangement Ideas
49. Modern Blues - Lesson 049 - Concert by Jimmy Malone

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