How To Arrange a Song Using Intros & Endings Our video today is about how to arrange a song to make it unique. Good morning. This is Duane, and we’ve been doing a series about how to color on the … Continue reading →
Playing Piano Songs Using Swing Bass Swing bass is a style which provides not only the chords of the song, but also creates a rhythm. Good morning. This is Duane. We’ve been doing a series called “How to Color Without … Continue reading →
How To Add Piano Fillers To Most Any Song You can make any song more interesting by adding piano fillers to the “dead spaces” in the song. Good morning. This is Duane. We’ve been doing a series called “Good Stuff … Continue reading →
Good morning. This is Duane. We’ve been doing a series of videos called “Good Stuff You Really Ought to Know About Music,” particularly related to piano playing. It’s music theory related to piano playing basically. One thing you really ought to know about music as a piano player is that if you want to make the melody stand out, there’s several ways to do it, but one way to do it is to use block chords on the melody. Now block chords is where you play the chord in the right hand and the melody in the left hand. Actually, you play the melody in both hands.
Continue reading →Today I will cover an easy piano arrangement of that great ballad “The Nearness Of You” Good morning, this is Duane and we’re doing a series on how to make songs more colorful by adding colorful chords and chord substitutions … Continue reading →
Good morning. This is Duane, and we are doing a series of songs just to show what arranging techniques and colorful chords will do for songs. There is nothing wrong with playing a song as written, by the way, and if … Continue reading →
Moon River For Piano – Adding Colorful Chords Today we are going to finish up arranging Moon River for piano – part three. Good morning. This is Duane. We’ve been doing a series of videos on how to add color … Continue reading →
Some Left-Hand Ideas  To Make Your Piano Playing More Colorful If you aren’t satisfied just playing a song the same old way, but want to add interest and variety to your piano playing – in other words, make your piano … Continue reading →
Amazing Grace On The Piano – For Beginners & For More Advanced Players Good morning. This is Duane and today I’d like to take a look at Amazing Grace on the piano. We’re going to be able to play Amazing … Continue reading →
Piano Arranging – Using Octaves With Intervals of a 3rd Piano arranging is a skill every piano player ought to develop, because it gives him or her the opportunity to “do your own thing” on the piano, without sounding the … Continue reading →
