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
The ‘regular’ piano. Although it’s sound, ranging from flanging, drunken and out of tune, cowboy-saloon honkey-tonks to bombastic, heavily-compressed rock-slammers, is far from ‘regular’, but closer to both spectacularly beautiful and extremely recognizable, this instrument is what most people think of when hearing the word ‘piano’. It is one of the most popular instruments in … Read more
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Hi All! To illustrate this lesson, I’ll use the song ‘9 crimes’ which features a piano riff of 2 measures (8, 4th-note beats) that starts at the very beginning of the song, and except for very minor variations on the first chord (which wel’ll see in a sec is Amadd9) continues in exactly the same … Read more
I advice reading the post ‘Using chords to see and simplify note relations‘ before going ahead and learning this song to help you better understand the structure and learn a wise piano lesson from it. Then try and look at the song and see how difficult you find it after that story, when I … Read more