Rapid-Fire Piano Runs For Your Right Hand

Listen to this podcast about creating rapid-fire piano runs for your right hand:

Here is a transcript of the podcast:

Hello. This is Duane again bringing you more Good Stuff You Really Ought to Know. Today I’d like to look briefly at right hand runs. You can fill up the empty spaces in any kind of song just through the use of rapid-fire piano runs made out of whatever chord is in force. A lot of people don’t know that. It’s so obvious, but if you haven’t thought about it or haven’t been taught that, I guess it’s not obvious. No matter what the chord is, you just break up that chord.

For example, if the chord is F Minor Seven, you can make a run out of that F Minor Seventh, can’t you, right up the keyboard or back down the keyboard or any combination thereof. (Duane Playing Piano) In our example, we have the chord C Six. It’s always a good idea, by the way, if the melody is E, to put the melody on top in the right. It doesn’t have to be that way, but it just sounds like you’ve got a stronger melody if you keep the melody note on top. In other words, if it’s C Six but the melody was G, (Duane Playing Piano) it would be a better idea to run the run up by playing A-C-E-G. In other words, keep the G on top. Whatever the melody note is, try to keep it on top.

You are probably wondering what’s the time frame there. Well, it really doesn’t matter. You can do it slowly. You can do it rapidly. The thing that defines the time frame is how soon you have to be back for the next note, because this is in the context of the song. If you have three beats and you can go, (Duane Playing Piano) one, two, three, then you go on to whatever the next melody note is, right? If there’s only two beats, then you only have two beats. (Duane Playing Piano) One, two, and then you on … you have two beats here and then you go on … if you’ve got four beats, one, two, three, four, you’ve got four beats to do whatever you want to take that broken chord up the keyboard or back down or hesitate. (Duane Playing Piano) You don’t have to go straight up and down. You could go (Duane Playing Piano). I’ll move from one octave to the next and then I’ll hesitate within that octave and then I’ll move on upward, (Duane Playing Piano) go back down. Don’t feel like you have to go in one direction. You could stay where you are or jump back and forth.

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