Play Piano Using The Most-Used Chords In Any Key! One of the most important things that a piano player can know is the primary chords, the three major chords that are used in most every song. They are way more … Continue reading →
Play Piano With Expression: Use ALL Of Your Abilities In Your Piano Playing! Here is a transcript of the video in case you would like to follow along: Good morning. This is Duane and today I’d like to talk about … Continue reading →
Four Pianists turned Politicians Charles Dickens played the accordion, Neil Armstrong played the Baritone Horn, Thomas Jefferson played the violin, and Basketball great Wayman Tisdale played the bass guitar. These are only a few well known people who play a … Continue reading →
Why do I need to learn scales and chords and music theory? Well, if you have the talent of a Mozart or Bach or Erroll Garner or Oscar Peterson or Dave Brubeck, you probably don’t. But if you’re like the … Continue reading →
Enharmonic notes and enharmonic chords — how they work.
Continue reading →How to create a “walk the stairs” boogie pattern in the left hand
Continue reading →The Alberti bass is a style which simply breaks up any 3-note chord
Continue reading →Playing the tune of a song in a “single-finger” style leaves much to be desired in terms of fullness.
Continue reading →To get a really full sound in your right hand, try putting in not only the notes of the chord under the melody
Continue reading →If I already play guitar, can I catch on to piano playing faster than if I didn’t? Already knowing the guitar has it advantages when learning piano (although it depends on your training, experience, and abilities). If you learned to … Continue reading →
