All Chords Like It!

To help with learning how to improvise, a few guidelines are useful which you then rely on less and less as you improve. One is to choose a common note across all the chords of the song and to base improvised lines on it (as in, away from and towards it). Summertime, in Am, can use D since it's the 11 of A, b3 of Bm7b5 and b7 of E7b9... it works nicely. Herein are a few examples of using that note. Combine this with other improvisation videos I've made and you'll start sounding very good indeed!

Time Stamps
00:00 - Intro
00:21 - LH shapes
01:30 - Choosing the note of interest
03:09 - Choosing a pool of notes
04:31 - Chord tones
05:00 - Blues scale and more
05:40 - Space also a note!
06:23 - Melody with other notes
07:39 - Review

To help with learning how to improvise, a few guidelines are useful which you then rely on less and less as you improve. One is to choose a common note across all the chords of the song and to base improvised

To help with learning how to improvise, a few guidelines are useful which you then rely on less and less as you improve. One is to choose a common note across all the chords of the song and to base improvised lines on it (as in, away from and towards it). Summertime, in Am, can use D since it's the 11 of A, b3 of Bm7b5 and b7 of E7b9... it works nicely. Herein are a few examples of using that note. Combine this with other improvisation videos I've made and you'll start sounding very good indeed!

Trying to overcome a difficulty by repeatedly playing it reinforces that you cannot play it and you will probably give up before you finally succeed due to the unnatural approach. In this video, discover how to dissect an issue into its smaller

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Perhaps my most important video. I wrote an article and created a PDF for you to help get everyone on the same page, to get real about what you truly know and what you can truly do, no excuses.

Perhaps my most important video. I wrote an article and created a PDF for you to help get everyone on the same page, to get real about what you truly know and what you can truly do, no excuses. Everything is contained in this video and the PDF. So for a while, stop you repertoire building and stop messing around with random technical exercise books and have some self-analysis time. Feel free to share and print the simple, two-page doc as much as you wish. Feedback to inspire others greatly encouraged. Main points: major scale mastery, chord types, weak fingers, the most important technical exercise and some common chord progressions. As always, eyes closed, find your natural limit, don't compare with others and Play You!

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Stride appears in many genres of piano music: accompanying singers, solo piano, classical, romantic, pop; it's also just a really good technical exercise for precision. Herein, we go from simple pinkie bounce all the way to open octave chromatic connections! I

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