Music Lessons

Here’s how to play Stevie Wonder – I Wish!   For a more in-depth lesson on this song click here. Questions? Remarks? Show me how you play this song! Please leave a comment below!

        For a -waaaayyyyyy- more in-depth lesson of this song take a look here and here.   Questions? Remarks? Show me how you play this song! Please leave a comment below! I’m also very curious which tutorial you’d like to see next! Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat … Read more

  Ah, the Scientist. What a song. Inspired so many people to start playing pop-piano. Chris Martin (the lead vocalist and piano player of Coldplay) is somebody that knows his pop-piano. Knows his chords, knows his patterns. Mixes them up, combines them and uses the exact techniques that I am trying so hard to teach … Read more

Hi all! This week I have three very cool things for you: 1. A brand new tutorial for a song of one of my all-time favourites: Sting. Wow. As many of you that know this world-famous masterpiece of a song ‘Fragile’ might recall, the song is not originally played on piano but on guitar. So … Read more

In this lesson I’ll be talking a little more about translating different instrument parts to the piano, and thus: how you can make your very own piano-part for any song (even those that haven’t got any piano in it) using chords and -especially- choosing your patterns wisely. To make sure (or at least enhance the chance) that … Read more

In the previous few lessons, I told you about the importance of bass notes and what ‘optional’ notes arise by using the bass to define the harmony. In this particular lesson, using the famous keyboard groove of Stevie Wonder I Wish Now, as many of you know, I like to approach the ‘theory’ part of … Read more

Last time we finished by taking a quick look at the first and most important part of the whole song: the bass line. Just like the original, this video starts with this ‘one-in-a-million’, signature part of the song. As I want to teach you about the importance of bass notes, devoting such a major, two-part lesson … Read more

  In the previous lesson I started telling you a bit about harmonizing a melody. A skill you can either use to build your very own, unique piano part for a song, or to easily find out what specific instruments are playing on an original recording, for you to copy those parts to the piano. … Read more

  As you’ve probably seen in one or more of my video’s -or any of the many other tutorials found on youtube- not all songs that are explained and played on the piano, are songs that are originally played on (just) a piano. Now, how is it possible to play a song that has no … Read more

  What? Just these three simple chords? Most definitely. This tutorial will give you a perfect example of just how complex you can get, by creating / copying different instrumental parts, cross-flowing over- and into each other, when diving into the options that chords give you when combined with different patterns. Using different inversions, the … Read more