Arpeggio – Chords Broken Up Good morning! This is Duane, and we’ve been doing a series of videos on music theory, and we’ve titled the series “Good Stuff You Really Ought To Know About Music!” One thing you really ought … Continue reading →
Helpful Left Hand Chord Patterns Out Of “Broken” Chords Do you know what a “broken” chord is? Instead of playing all the notes of a chord at once, you stretch them out and play them one at a time. … Continue reading →
Open-Voicing With Broken Piano Chords Good morning. This is Duane. Today I’d like to talk about open-voiced arpeggios – broken piano chords. You know what an arpeggio is. First you know what is an archipelago: a series of islands. Arpeggios … Continue reading →
Flowing Piano Arpeggios – A “River of Sound” Watch this video on flowing piano arpeggios to create a sustained sound in your left hand using chords. ***For lots more good stuff on piano playing come on over to my website … Continue reading →
Piano Left Hand Pattern – The “Alberti Bass” Watch this video on the “Alberti Bass Chord Pattern” Here’s An Easy Piano Left Hand Pattern – breaking up a 3-note chord. Maybe the easiest style of all, except for perhaps just … Continue reading →
The Alberti Bass Piano Arranging Technique Good morning. This is Duane, and we’re involved in a series of arranging styles on the keyboard. We’ve taken up three of them so far, and today’s going to be the fourth. The … Continue reading →
Broken Chords – Arpeggios – The Key To Playing Rapidly On The Piano Good morning. This is Duane, and today I’d like to talk about the importance of learning to play broken chords – arpeggios. You’ll never really play rapidly … Continue reading →
The Alberti Bass – An Easy Way To Break Up Chords There are many ways to break up a chord, and we have talked about many of them. Today I would like to cover the Alberti Bass broken chord technique … Continue reading →
Left Hand Arpeggios – One Way To Play Chords Good morning, this is Duane and today I’d like to talk about left hand arpeggios. An arpeggio, as you probably know, is simply a broken chord. A chord is three or … Continue reading →
Arpeggio is an Italian word meaning broken chord. Simply speaking, when we play an arpeggio, we split a chord in to its component notes and play them individually.
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