
Learn to name the white piano keys from a to g, identify black-key groups of three and two, and practice a five-minute card exercise daily to locate notes.
Explore the difference between major and minor, hearing how major sounds happy and minor sounds sad, and compare the same melody in both keys to hear the mood shift.
Learn to play twinkle twinkle little star in C major, starting with middle C, using a steady four-beat rhythm, and practicing the melody with white and black keys.
Learn to play Beethoven's ninth symphony by forming a clear mental image of the music, singing it, and using precise hand positions to follow the rhythm.
Comping teaches you to play behind a singer using left-hand bass notes and right-hand chords. It lets you rhythmically shape songs without always playing the melody.
Explore major chords and hear how they sound in jazz and bossa nova, then learn to turn any major chord into a major seventh and practice with exercises.
Learn to construct major seven chords from a root by placing notes a half step below the octave, and practice with a cycle of fifths exercise from C major.
Learn to form major sixth chords from major chords, explore adding the sixth across keys, and color your playing with six chords while linking them to minor chord practice.
Discover how to form minor sixth chords by adding a sixth above a minor triad, using the fifth as reference, with examples in F sharp minor and flat six.
explore minor 11th chords: combine a right-hand major triad with a left-hand minor triad, locate the 11 under the fifth, and add the seventh and nine.
Explore piano sounds and rhythm, learn basic principles, and practice complex rhythmic patterns to develop right- and left-hand independence, including octave work in the right hand.
Discover how adding octaves to minor chords creates a tougher sound, with right and left hands aligned, using first inversion voicings in a 3/4 chord progression.
Learn left-hand stride piano by outlining bass notes, chords, and second-inversion voicings with sixth chords to emulate a full rhythm section, with examples like 'Oh when the saints'.
In this course you will learn universal tools that you can apply on just any song! You´ll start of with the basics like the names of the keys, how meters work, fingering, tempos,how to use the pedal, etc. Then you´ll move on to learn songs in three “steps” starting with melodies in the right hand, adding bassnotes in the left and finally put chords to the songs. This will be based on a system which I call ”the sing-and-play-way”, meaning that you should first learn to sing the music, then sing and play it, THEN play it without singing it. In this way you will learn to “sing” with you instrument which according to me is the absolute best and most effective way. Wouldn't it be great if you could play all the songs that you can sing??
You will also learn scales, about a lot of different chords and how to practice them, and also the wonderful pianostyles of stridepiano(jazz from the 30´s) and salsa!
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Down below follows some important tips for ANYONE interested in learning how to play. I hope that you´ll find this useful! :)
1. THE MOST COMMON MISTAKE is to believe that music comes from your fingers playing. The music comes from inside of you and COMES OUT through your fingers.
2. YOU CAN AVOID THIS MISTAKE by three simple steps: 1: Sing, 2: Sing & play 3: Play.
3. ONE OF THE BIGGEST SECRETS is actually very easy. Always notice where you're going and prepare yourself for the next step. I talk about this in the presentation video (free). Don't miss out, this is so important.
4. THE WAY TO PRACTICE THAT NO ONE TALKS ABOUT is to practice "backwards". It might sound strange at first, but not if you think about it. If you're practicing starting from the beginning all the time, what will you learn best? The beginning of course! But as the song goes on you get more and more insecure. Start to practice the end of the song (or the end of the part that you want to learn) first. You will learn the beginning anyway, for sure. This is how most students waist their time, including myself once.
5. TAKE A COURSE ONLINE
Ok, this might sound a little bit cheesy coming from me, being the creator of this course. But I sincerely believe that this kind of teaching is the future. It has so many advantages in the possibilities to watch the videos over and over, the visual aspect and the ability to bring the lessons to you whenever you want and where you want.
Well, that was some advices from me. I hope that I´ll see you in the course!
Take care! :)
//Peter