If you're in an intermediate stage of your piano playing and are comfortable moving between different chords, get ready to apply more creativity to your playing. Here is a great introduction to writing your own song with a few simple chords. By taking a root chord, 4 chord, 6th chord and 5 chord, and playing them together while sprinkling in notes between, you can turn out a very nice sounding love song.
See for yourself and give it a try. Pick out the four chords that I've noted in any key that you desire and just let your creativity flow.
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Showing posts with label piano. Show all posts
How to Play Blues Piano
With this lesson, you are shown exactly how to unleash your hands from rigid standard piano playing and free them up to work the blues scales to their maximum potential. You can see in the video how he takes a common blues scale, memorizes it and then uses that scale to jump all over the keyboard, all while staying in the correct key.
This is why it's really important to really focus yourself on learning one of the popular blues scales and then simply grab notes from it as you move up and down the keyboard.
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This is why it's really important to really focus yourself on learning one of the popular blues scales and then simply grab notes from it as you move up and down the keyboard.
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Finding Chords on the Piano
With this lesson you will find out how to really take your piano playing to the next level. This lesson is focused on the basics of finding chords easily on the piano. In order to be able to do this with ease, it's very important that you memorize the circle of fifths and scales for the key that you are playing in.
Once you have both the circle of fifths and the scales under your belt, the flood gates are wide open for you to grasp music theory and chord theory on the piano!
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Once you have both the circle of fifths and the scales under your belt, the flood gates are wide open for you to grasp music theory and chord theory on the piano!
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How to Play Piano Notes on the Bass Clef
This lesson will guide you through how to read and play piano notes on the bass cleff. The bass clef includes notes which are located under the Middle C. This is why it's most closely associated with left hand piano playing.
The bass clef is necessary because notating music on the treble clef would require too many ledger lines to easily read.
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The bass clef is necessary because notating music on the treble clef would require too many ledger lines to easily read.
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How to Play Basic Major Chords on the Piano
This is related to the previous "How to Play Minor Chords on the Piano" post. Now you will learn how to play the basic Major chords on the piano. Pay close attention to the demonstration of how the chords are played. When you're ready to try it for yourself, pick out a few of the chords and start memorizing their fingerings.
Soon you'll be able to land on the chords without much thought and you can even begin to add in the Minor chords that you learned from the previous lesson to make up a song!
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Soon you'll be able to land on the chords without much thought and you can even begin to add in the Minor chords that you learned from the previous lesson to make up a song!
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How to Play Basic Minor Chords on the Piano
Here is an introduction to playing Minor chords on the piano. Watch the demonstration of each chord being played and listen closely to how each sounds. Then, try it for yourself! Pick out a few of the chords that sound appealing and begin memorizing them.
Soon you'll be able to land on the chords without much thought and you can begin to add other chords to make up a song.
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Soon you'll be able to land on the chords without much thought and you can begin to add other chords to make up a song.
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How to Play 5-Finger Patterns and Chords on the Piano
With this piano podcast, you can learn to construct any Major chord with 5-finger patterns. This will allow you to play any Major chord that you may come across on sheet music or lead sheets.
For 5-finger chord pattern diagrams of all the Major chords on the piano, please see our books available at String Theory Chords.
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For 5-finger chord pattern diagrams of all the Major chords on the piano, please see our books available at String Theory Chords.
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Piano Scales Fingering Technique
The proper technique for playing scales on the piano! These exercises will show you how to form your hands in the correct posture while moving higher or lower on the piano keyboard. You'll also learn the logic behind fingerings and different scales.
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By understanding scales you will have a high advantage when playing musical pieces or improvising. It will also help you improve your piano-playing motor skills to play faster and smoother.
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Blues Improvisation Tricks for Beginner Pianists
If you're a beginning pianist and want to learn the blues, try out these helpful tips to get you started. You'll instantly be able to play blues licks on the piano and sound great doing it!
Take your blues soloing to a whole new level by learning that C blues scale as she demonstrates. Add to it or try it out with trills and thirds. Don't worry if you can't keep up with everything she is playing. Pick out a few hand positions that she uses and memorize those while adding in trills and thirds.
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Take your blues soloing to a whole new level by learning that C blues scale as she demonstrates. Add to it or try it out with trills and thirds. Don't worry if you can't keep up with everything she is playing. Pick out a few hand positions that she uses and memorize those while adding in trills and thirds.
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How to Read Piano Notes on the Music Staff for Beginners
If you're a beginner on the piano, learning how to read sheet music and notes on the music staff can be very intimidating. With this tutorial, it's spelled out for you in a very easy-to-understand format!
As long as you know your alphabet, you can count up and down on the music staff in the bass and treble clef to pick out any note you want. Just follow the guidelines that he introduces in the video and you'll be picking notes out of sheet music immediately!
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As long as you know your alphabet, you can count up and down on the music staff in the bass and treble clef to pick out any note you want. Just follow the guidelines that he introduces in the video and you'll be picking notes out of sheet music immediately!
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How to Read Piano Sheet Music Made Easy!
Here is a great video tutorial which breaks down and simplifies reading sheet music specifically for the piano! The teacher in this video shows you exactly how you can read sheet music and visualize it on the piano before you apply it and actually begin playing. This is a must for anyone new to piano or sheet music staff notation and one of the best lessons I've seen on the subject!
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Learn How to Play the Piano in 10 Minutes
If you're new to the piano, this is a great introduction to get you started in minutes! Learn all about locating the Middle C on the piano and then finding notes and chords. Before you know it, you'll have a few chords under your belt with a good understanding of how to play songs on the piano!
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Simple Formula for Remembering Chords on the Piano
With this one short tutorial you'll learn the simple yet reliable formula for playing and remembering hundreds of chords on the piano! This tutorial covers the Major, Minor and Seventh chords but the concept can be carried over to any type of chords out there.
Just remember the rule of 7 and count upward from the root of the chord at the intervals specified in the video.
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Just remember the rule of 7 and count upward from the root of the chord at the intervals specified in the video.
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Learn How to Read Bass Clef on the Piano!
Here is an excellent video tutorial on bass clef and how it applies to piano. You will learn all about the bass clef notes and how they are oriented along with the treble clef. Remember that the Middle C is positioned between both the bass clef and the treble clef.
Get out your piano or keyboard and follow along for more hands-on practice as this will help you to visualize and retain the different notes and keys on the keyboard!
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Get out your piano or keyboard and follow along for more hands-on practice as this will help you to visualize and retain the different notes and keys on the keyboard!
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How to Teach Piano to Kids
In this video tutorial you are introduced to productive ways of teaching piano to kids. Kids are not always the easiest students to work with but the good news is that if they have not yet had much experience on the piano, then they haven't yet had the chance to develop any bad habits. This gives you the perfect opportunity to guide and shape their piano-playing.
If you are involved with teaching piano lessons to young students, or are yourself just beginning on the piano, pay close attention to the methods and techniques described in this video. You'll no doubt learn some creative ways to approach the piano.
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If you are involved with teaching piano lessons to young students, or are yourself just beginning on the piano, pay close attention to the methods and techniques described in this video. You'll no doubt learn some creative ways to approach the piano.
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Proper Piano Playing Posture
When learning to play piano we often don't pay very close attention or even give much thought to our playing posture. Interestingly enough, your posture can be just as important as learning your first chords. If you practice bad habits, you may end up learning to play incorrectly, hindering yourself from progressing as well as you could.
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Pay close attention to how he describes proper hand placement, finger positioning, arm positioning and sitting posture in the video. Practice these habits and even make it a habit to concentrate on each of these posture exercises as you play. After you've practiced it enough times it will become second nature for you and you'll no longer even realize you're doing it!
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Basic Piano Improv
Learn how to improvise on the piano! This is a great video tutorial on how to choose random notes and apply basic left hand chords to them to create improvised songs. Notice how he uses only one finger on the right hand each time and then concentrates on the three finger chord with the left hand to match it.
With this basic pattern in mind you can move around anywhere on the keyboard and sound great doing it! Improv doesn't have to be complicated, you just need to pick out notes and match any type of corresponding chord to it.
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With this basic pattern in mind you can move around anywhere on the keyboard and sound great doing it! Improv doesn't have to be complicated, you just need to pick out notes and match any type of corresponding chord to it.
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How to Read Piano Sheet Music
This video provides a visually detailed introduction into reading sheet music on the piano. This lesson is intended for beginners on the piano and those who are new to reading sheet music.
Pay close attention to where the notes are located on the music staff. As you can see, note names move up the scale alphabetically as you move up the staff. After watching this video lesson, you should be more familiar with music notes and their positions on the piano keyboard and music staff.
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Pay close attention to where the notes are located on the music staff. As you can see, note names move up the scale alphabetically as you move up the staff. After watching this video lesson, you should be more familiar with music notes and their positions on the piano keyboard and music staff.
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How to Play Romantic Piano
Here is a nice introduction to improvising romantic-sounding music and songs on the piano. The first half of the video is more pertinent to beginning pianists. Practice moving through the C, Fm and G chords while improvising notes with the right hand. This chord progression is at the "heart" of many romantic ballads and songs.
Here are representations of the C, Fm and G chords that he uses in the video.
C
Fm
G
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Learn Blues Improvisation on the Piano
This short video tutorial gets into a bit of blues improvisation on the piano. By playing off a typical blues scale (such as C blues scale in this example), you can easily add in fills and improvise to create a nice blues solo improvisation.
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This close-up look into blues soloing will teach you how to effectively take the concepts of blues improvisation to any type of blues music, just pick out the scale being used and have fun with it!
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