Piano Players: Give Your Songs a Lift By Modulating Up To a Higher Key
Often you can give your songs a “lift” by modulating up a half-step from the key you are in.
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Duane Shinn (that would be me) has good news for you if you want to play the piano. He (me) has little fat hands & stubby little fingers - not at all suited for playing the piano - more suited to making mud pies or some such. I am also fairly uncoordinated with just average musical ability - certainly not a great piano player. But I've learned a ton about music over the years and people tell me I'm pretty decent at explaining how music works & how to progress more rapidly on the piano. Over the years I have developed about 150 techniques for conquering the piano. Most professional pianists can do these techniques, but very few can explain them in a way people can understand. I specialize in making complex techniques simple. I invite you to watch a few of my free videos and see some of these for yourself before making any decision about taking any of my courses.
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Often you can give your songs a “lift” by modulating up a half-step from the key you are in.
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By using chord substitutions, old hymns can be transformed into completely new arrangements.
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We just opened a brand-new Facebook Page so you can have easy access to all my videos, podcasts, articles — all in one place.
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Piano Tips: Parallel & Contrary Octaves Podcast
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This is the last of 4 videos about how a beginner can learn a simple boogie pattern and put it together into both hands.
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A simple right hand boogie pattern you can use.
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In this short video I demonstrate how the walk-the-stairs boogie pattern can be placed in various keys
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Song Robot allows you to see any song played on the keyboard!
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How to create a “walk the stairs” boogie pattern in the left hand
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You can create motion in your songs by adding passing tones to your repertoire of piano techniques.
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