Melanie Shore Music/Blues & Improv Essentials Mini Course

  • $47

Blues & Improv Essentials Mini Course

  • Course
  • 25 Lessons
  • 365-day access

This course is for anyone who is a complete beginner with chords and improvisation. Each lesson comes with an instructional video, assignment, and practice track. The e-book for this course includes bonus left hand concepts and 11 additional practice tunes, so you can take your playing to the next level. If you are curious about chords and improv, but know next-to-nothing, this is for you!!

Find freedom from sheet music in just a few minutes!

Does This Sound Like You?

- If the sheet music disappeared, would you freeze?
- Do you wish you could just sit down and play something fun?
- Have you tried improvising but ended up sounding like a toddler hitting the keys?

You’re not alone. Most classically trained pianists never get taught how to play off the page.
The good news is you can learn how to do this in just a few minutes!

Here's What You’ll Be Able to Do:

By the end of Blues & Improv Essentials, you’ll:
- Master the 12-bar blues
- Add professional-sounding riffs to your toolkit
- Create your own solos using the blues scale + pro tricks
- Play authentic left-hand bass lines and grooves
- Sound confident, even without sheet music

Inside the Course

You get bite-sized, follow-along lessons that build your skills step-by-step:
1. The 12-Bar Blues Blueprint — the backbone of blues, rock, and jazz
2. Left-Hand Groove Library — from simple beats to walking bass lines
3. The Blues Scale & Beyond — and how to actually use it
4. “Always Works” Riffs — licks that sound great every time
5. Putting It Together — solo confidently with full play-alongs

This mini course is short enough to finish in a weekend, but powerful enough to change how you play forever.

Got a busy week and not ready to start? Great news - you have access to this course for one full year from date of purchase!

Renée L.

I took years of piano lessons and could play Clair de Lune and could play notes on a page, but I never was taught how to learn how to create and apply concepts of chords and improvisation. Blues and Improv Essentials was SO helpful, and doing the videos along with using the PDF was super helpful. It helped me to know I was on the right track, and I was able to use the concepts immediately!

Kathleen R.

As a classically trained pianist, I always thought improvisation was some mysterious talent other people were born with. I could analyze a Beethoven sonata but had no clue how to create something on the spot. This course changed that in the very first lesson. The 12-bar blues, the riffs, and the left-hand patterns gave me a clear roadmap. The best part is I could apply it instantly to songs I already knew. Now I actually look forward to "‘winging it’" — something I never imagined saying!

Steven C.

I’ve been playing piano for over 20 years, and while I could sight-read, I froze the second there wasn’t sheet music in front of me. This broke everything down into simple, doable steps. The combination of videos and the PDF guide made it easy to follow, and I could actually hear myself improving after just a few minutes. For the first time, I can sit down and make music without a page in front of me.

Play your first solo in minutes