Passing Tones In Music & Piano Playing – How To Use Them Listen to my podcast on passing tones by clicking the button below: Here is a transcript of the podcast: Hello again. This is Duane and this is more … Continue reading →
Right Hand Piano Fills – What To Do When The Melody Pauses… Most average piano players just play the melody with their right hand and let the left hand take care of the rest, but that’s a shame, because there … Continue reading →
Locked Hands Block Chords Style of Piano Playing Here is a transcript of the podcast: Hello. This is Duane with more “Good Stuff You Really Ought to Know.” Today we are going to look at the locked-hands-block-chords style. Locked-hands-block-chords style. … Continue reading →
Chord Progressions – What are they and why 7th chords progress as they do Chord progressions are simply the way two or more chords behave in a predictable pattern. For example, the most common chord progression of all is the … Continue reading →
Three Types of Music Scales Click on the button below to listen to this podcast: Here is a transcript of the podcast: Hello again. This is Duane with “More Good Stuff You Really Ought to Know.” Today, I’d like to … Continue reading →
How To Get Started Improvising On The Piano We all admire the improvising genius of an Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock or Andre Previn, but “regular folks” like you and I can improvise too — at a much lower … Continue reading →
How To Transpose & Modulate How do transposition and modulation relate? Are they the same? In this post we’re going to take a look at both of them and see what makes them tick. I’m sure that you have had … Continue reading →
I Want to Learn Piano! One Students’ Search For a Way To Do It Right Written by: David Music may very well be one of the most mysterious concepts on this planet. Pretty much everyone likes one kind of music … Continue reading →
SIX THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MUSIC SCALES Chances are your lessons include scale exercises. And chances are you don’t much enjoy playing them. Very few people enjoy playing scales but they do so much good for our playing that … Continue reading →
Piano Runs: Practice Piano Slowly & Gradually Get Up To Speed “How can I play faster – like the pianists I see on TV?” Every piano teacher has heard this question, or some variety of it, countless times. And it’s … Continue reading →
