Simply Find Your Natural Limit

You need a good left hand. Herein, I simply show what I used to do 25+ years ago in the practice rooms regarding octaves and stride. Finding your natural limit means find a tempo BPM at which you can do each exercise without stumbling, for at least a minute. If so, push it by 15-20 and try again... until you get to a tempo which doesn't need a metronome since it's fast and precise.

You need a good left hand. Herein, I simply show what I used to do 25+ years ago in the practice rooms regarding octaves and stride. Finding your natural limit means find a tempo BPM at which you can do each

You need a good left hand. Herein, I simply show what I used to do 25+ years ago in the practice rooms regarding octaves and stride. Finding your natural limit means find a tempo BPM at which you can do each exercise without stumbling, for at least a minute. If so, push it by 15-20 and try again... until you get to a tempo which doesn't need a metronome since it's fast and precise.

You need to know these to help you acquire a nice bunch of common chords as well as helping you acquire jazz repertoire with much more ease since these chord progressions in these keys appear at least 80% of the time. So just get them down once and for all! You can embellish them at a later date...

Have been asked recently to help 'adult learners' get started so I made this video to give you the most important things to work on, no matter your path. Nothing overwhelming. No silly books. No heavy philosophies. Just a simple truth:

Have been asked recently to help 'adult learners' get started so I made this video to give you the most important things to work on, no matter your path. Nothing overwhelming. No silly books. No heavy philosophies. Just a simple truth: major scales and finger independence are the absolute foundation of your piano journey. I talk about some other stuff too and provide many examples of course. From this video, I'm happy to make further videos in slightly more detail so it perhaps becomes a mini playlist. Good luck!

Years ago, I created a major scale mastery game to confirm how well students know their major scales. Many say they know them but when playing this game, we see they don't! You start on a note and, from a random

Years ago, I created a major scale mastery game to confirm how well students know their major scales. Many say they know them but when playing this game, we see they don't! You start on a note and, from a random number generator or long recording of your own, using numbers 2-7, say the answer BUT the answer key is the NEW key for the NEXT number to apply to. I show some variations of this game too. If you can do this on a second by second basis, away from the piano, for at least 2 minutes, then you know your major scales. So, can you do it?

An interesting question was asked recently about why chord progressions work rather than the how. In this episode, with piano examples, I try to answer this question, while also talking about certain chord types. I provide a homework for you to try out at the end.

Hopefully you've got the melody down from Part 1 and are now ready for the basic chords of this beautiful piece. I demonstrate in Eb since the chords you'll learn herein, as well as the progressions, exist in countless other songs

Hopefully you've got the melody down from Part 1 and are now ready for the basic chords of this beautiful piece. I demonstrate in Eb since the chords you'll learn herein, as well as the progressions, exist in countless other songs written in Eb (this is originally in the rare key of Db). Part 3 will embellish the chords and discuss performance ideas.