Piano playing is a skill that develops over time, but there are a few things you can do that improve your playing almost immediately. Please watch this short video for 7 ideas on making your piano songs sound better. Click … Continue reading →
Your Piano Playing – Is It Smooth & Flowing? Have you noticed that most piano players aren’t very smooth – but kind of jerky? Of course sometimes that is appropriate for certain types of songs, but for the most part, … Continue reading →
Are You Using Musical Embellishments In Your Piano Playing? Are You Using Musical Embellishments In Your Piano Playing? It is an easy thing to do and musical embellishments add a touch of interest to your songs. One kind of embellishment … Continue reading →
Combing Left Hand Piano Techniques In this video I demonstrate how various left hand piano techniques can be combined in the context of one song. ***For lots more good stuff on piano playing come on over to my website at … Continue reading →
Piano Runs and Fills You Can Learn To Play Good morning. This is Duane, your headless piano teacher, and today I’d like to cover two or three of the piano runs and fills that great pianists use. Now they use … Continue reading →
Using Two Hand Block Chord Voicing For Piano Songs Good morning, this is Duane. Today I’d like to cover two hand block chord voicing for piano. Two hand block chord voicing. There’s different ways to play block chords. One way … Continue reading →
Here are five piano playing techniques that are so simple to do that even beginners can do them. There are hundreds or thousands of advanced techniques, and we will cover many of those in later posts, but today I want … Continue reading →
http://www.pianolesson.tv/ There are literally hundreds (or thousands) of different ways for any piano player to make his or her songs more interesting by adding the appropriate filler and/or piano run to a song. Watch this short video where I demonstrate … Continue reading →
When studying the piano, a student encounters a myriad piano styles. To master the instrument, at least several of these styles must be learned, and all if at all possible. Knowledge of various playing styles enables a pianist to enjoy and play in any genre and to cross-polinate styles to create a fusion he or she can call their own.
Continue reading →What in the world is “naked music?” You know it when you hear it, but the words that describe it sound strange, don’t they? We’ve all heard of popular music and rock music and gospel music and jazz music, but … Continue reading →
