Practising 1-4-5 piano chords
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bit.ly A step-by-step exercise that helps you understand the importance of the first, fourth and fifth (1,4, 5 or I, IV, V) chords in major keys and helps you learn to find them instinctively on the piano keyboard.
Jazz piano improvisation exercise - C minor
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Don't forget to check out my book: bit.ly Improvisation exercise for jazz, blues and funk piano. A fun way of developing keyboard improv skills and understanding of chord sequences and the blues scale. Includes full chord sequence and right hand notation in a pdf for learners.
Piano tutorial - bass voicings
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Understanding bass voicings and how they make a difference to the sound of your chords and harmonies.
Jazz piano improvisation exercise - E flat
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More improvisation in my book: bit.ly If you're developing jazz or blues piano skills, this should be a pretty useful improvisation exercise. It's in E flat, which is a pretty common jazz and blues key, and it's the kind of drill you can use either as an absolute beginner or when you've made a...
Piano improvisation exercise in C (with easy left hand!)
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bit.ly First video on my new Nord Piano 88! Anyway, this one is a quick C major improvisation exercise which isn't super easy with both hands together, but it does have a dead simple left - which means you can focus on getting the patters in your right hand sorted out.
Buddy Bolden's Blues - piano tutorial
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More on blues piano in my book: bit.ly This is an overview piano tutorial for Buddy Bolden's Blues - a really good New Orleans-style blues by Jelly Roll Morton. It's a useful blues to look at for a number of reasons. First, it has an interesting chord progression which differs from the standard...
Building seventh chords on the piano keyboard
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In this piano tutorial I look at how to take the natural chords of a key and extend them by a seventh, using a simple technique on the piano keyboard. It all comes down to understanding how basic chords are constructed using thirds.
Five interesting piano performances
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bit.ly I've got pretty sore hands at the moment, so this video is a discussion of other people playing the piano. They are: Lady Gaga, Nina Simone, Alfred Brendel, Olga Kern and Jools Holland.
Easy piano tutorial: arpeggios (and Adele)
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bit.ly Arpeggios are incredibly useful if you're interested in playing pop piano. In this tutorial I look at the basics of arpeggios (or broken chords, as they are sometimes known) and how you can use them in your piano comping and improvisation. At its most simple, and arpeggio is just a pattern...
Introduction to comping
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More on comps in my book: bit.ly Comping is the art of improvising a "comp" (accompaniment) to support vocals or other instruments. Piano comping is a really vital art to master if you're going to become a skilled pop pianist.
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