Free Piano Podcasts On “Good Stuff Every Pianist Needs To Know About Music!”
Free Piano Podcasts On Syncopation, Suspensions, Cadences, & Other Good Stuff For Piano Players!
Good morning. This is Duane Shinn. Today I’d like to show you my free piano podcast. They’re free and you can go over there and listen to all of them if you’d like to. It’s at a site called Spreaker, S-p-r-e-a-k-e-r, and if you just type in Spreaker followed by Duane Shinn you’ll come right to it. I’ll also put the URL in the information right below the video as well, okay? (Here it is: http://www.spreaker.com/user/duaneshinn)
Let’s take a look at that. There’s several; there’s more than this. Let me expand that a bit. Yeah. There’s one call “Syncopation in Music” that you can listen to: how to make any chord sound complex using parallel and contrary octaves, Plagal cadences. Let me just give you a sample of what these sound like. This won’t be very loud because my mic doesn’t pick up the computer speaker very well but you can get a sample of what it’s like.
Podcast: “Hi. This is Duane and I’d like to share with you today some good stuff you really ought to know about music theory. Today we’re going to take up the plagal cadence. Plagal is a big two dollar word that simply means a chord progression that goes from the four chord to the one chord in any key. If you’re in the key of B flat, the four chord would be E flat and the one chord would be B flat, and so on like that, okay?” This particular podcast is six minutes long. Most of these are five, six minutes. Some are a lot longer. A couple are twelve minutes, and so on.
There’s a key of C review, several of those. Then the modal scales: Dorian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and so on. That’s fascinating, too. The N6 chord in music: very, very few people know what the N6 chord is. The commonality of music. Suspensions in music. The overtone series. The Picardy third: what is that? Most people don’t know what the Picardy third is. Three musical cadences every pianist should know. Then right hand rapid fire runs. Polytonality: what is it? What’s a tune made out of? Passing tones: what are they? That’s a long one, ten minutes I see. Parallel stack third chords and another one on the Picardy third.
Lots of good stuff there. Good stuff you really ought to know. Every pianist ought to know that. Go on over to http://www.spreaker.com/user/duaneshinn and listen to any of those podcasts, okay? Like I say, I’ll put the URL down below the video here so you can click right through to that. Thanks for being with me, and we’ll see you again soon. Bye bye for now.