Piano Chords: Bring ’em to life using Passing Tones! (Video)
You can create motion in your songs by adding passing tones to your repertoire of piano techniques.
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Left-Hand Bass Styles For Piano: The Alberti Bass (Video)
The Alberti bass is a style which simply breaks up any 3-note chord
Continue reading →Piano Tips: How To Use “Stacked 4ths” Open Voicing (Podcast)
Piano players can get a different kind of sound in their chords by using a stack of 4ths
Continue reading →How To Play Piano Using Polytonality: 3 Situations
The word “poly” means, of course, “many”, so polytonality in this context means “more than one tonality”
Continue reading →How To Use “Stuffed Octaves” In Your Right Hand Melody (Piano Video)
To get a really full piano sound in your right hand, stuff all the notes of the chord between the octave notes.
Continue reading →Piano Lesson On Putting Arpeggios Under The Right Hand Melody Notes (Video)
The word “arpeggio” means broken chord, so on this video Duane demonstates how to not only put chords beneath the right hand melody
Continue reading →How To Put “Color Chords” Under Your Right Hand Melody (Video)
To get a really full sound in your right hand, try putting in not only the notes of the chord under the melody
Continue reading →Piano Lesson on Putting Chords Under Your Right Hand Melody (Video)
One of the ways you can make your right hand fuller is to put chords under your right hand melody.
Continue reading →Voicing Chords With Both Hands (Video)
How to voice chords with both hands
Continue reading →Fingering of a 4-note straddle
Fingering a 4-note straddle is similar to fingering a 3-note straddle, but of course you are dealing with 4 notes instead of 3, so a slightly different fingering is required.
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