Essential Piano and Keyboard Exercises

Name: Essential Piano and Keyboard Exercises
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Get faster at the piano and improve your improvisation skills with these 6 arpeggio exercises.

Created byWillie Myette

Last updated 2/2018

English

What you'll learn

Your technique and fluidity at the keyboard/piano will improve.
You'll notice a BIG leap in the flow of your playing,
Your playing will sound more professional because you'll have a more flowing technique.
You can use these exercises to create your own songs!

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 53m total length

Introduction1:53
Discover six essential arpeggio exercises to boost arpeggio fluidity, including outer and inner arpeggios and waterfall endings. Use these as springboards for your own songs and Oscar Peterson style runs.
The Classic9:40
Skipping11:05
Outer/Inner9:24
Explore outer and inner arpeggios built on a C major 7 chord, with fingering patterns across inversions and hands to shape improvisation and voicing.
Five to Four5:10
Waterfall4:06
Upper-Structures5:18
Explore upper structures in piano playing by using C major seven arpeggios, moving through sharp extensions and dominant seventh chords to enhance improvisation, practiced slowly with left-hand patterns.
Bonus6:37

Requirements

You will need a piano or keyboard for this course.
You should already know how to play at least 2 or more major scales

Description

We know that knowing the "right" notes to play at the piano is only the first step. You also need the technique in your fingers to play smooth melodies without hesitation. Learning your arpeggios are a big part of good technique at the piano.

So what is good technique?

It means being able to play what you HEAR without hesitation. It's also the kind of playing that turns heads. When people hear you playing beautiful, flowing piano, their ears are perked up and they want to hear more!

This course teaches you how to play and use your arpeggios. This isn't a boring course that just teaches you how to play an arpeggio. In this course you'll learn 6 different arpeggio exercises that you can transpose into any key to help you sound more professional at the piano.

Do you play keyboard or synth? Well these exercises are just important for you too!

Sheet music is included which shows you each arpeggio exercises written out with proper fingering.

Who this course is for:

If you want to improv your technique at the piano you should take this course.
If you want to get better at improvisation, this lesson is for you!
If you need more flow in your playing, you should take this course.