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Swing Low - The 101 Authentic Nashville Piano Style Course
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Swing Low - The 101 Authentic Nashville Piano Style Course

Learn Chords, Songs and Piano Improvisation in the Style of Floyd Cramer
Created byPeter Janzen
Last updated 2/2014
English

What you'll learn

  • Get to know the features of the NASHVILLE PIANO STYLE and apply the rules to songs
  • Learn to play "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" in Nashville Piano Style
  • Learn left-hand-accompaniment techniques
  • Learn important fingering techniques
  • Get new motivation for the achievement and application of your own musical style and expressions.

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Course content

5 sections • 15 lectures • 35m total length

  • Motivation Video2:14

Requirements

  • Daily practice time of about 15 minutes
  • Piano or keyboard (minimum 49 keys)

Description

Play the song "Swing Low" on piano and improvise like the American Hall of Fame pianist of the great era of pop music: Floyd Cramer, who played together with artists like Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, The Everley Brothers and many more.

In this course you will learn the important basics for a professional piano playing. While I show you how to play Swing Low, from the very beginning, I´ll explain you

  • important fingering techniques,
  • the chord structure of the song "Swing Low Sweet Chariot",
  • simple and more advanced left hand accompaniment techniques,

and of course we´ll focus on the 101 Nashville Piano Style with its three main features:

  1. the special upper voice
  2. the famous slip notes, and
  3. the yodle notes

Learn the historic song "Swing Low" which was interpreted in so many different ways, and play it in an exciting new and fresh way.

When you go through this course, you will have learned to apply the Nashville Piano Style , which is the bottom line for adaption to your own style, and for improvising in this style.

With the subscription of this course you also get the sheet music of all presented examples.

Who this course is for:

  • Piano players (from beginner to advanced intermediate) who want to get better at the piano and who want to know one of the most famous piano pop music style

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