Left-Hand Bass Styles For Piano: The Alberti Bass (Video)
The Alberti bass is a style which simply breaks up any 3-note chord
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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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The Alberti bass is a style which simply breaks up any 3-note chord
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Piano players can get a different kind of sound in their chords by using a stack of 4ths
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The word “poly” means, of course, “many”, so polytonality in this context means “more than one tonality”
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‘When The Saints Go Marching In” was written in 1896 and is in the public domain.
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How to “comp” under the melody for a rhythmic-chording style.
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To get a really full piano sound in your right hand, stuff all the notes of the chord between the octave notes.
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Playing the tune of a song in a “single-finger” style leaves much to be desired in terms of fullness.
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Do you know how to modulate from one key to another key?
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Every musician needs to know as much about music theory as possible
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The word “arpeggio” means broken chord, so on this video Duane demonstates how to not only put chords beneath the right hand melody
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