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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 just a couple ways:

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Creating a piano run in your right hand usually consists of either playing a scale of some sort or a chord broken up. Listen to this short podcast by clicking on the player below as I describe how to create a rapid piano run using your right hand.

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There are about a zillion things you can do with chords so there is no need to overuse any one technique. To turn a chord into a “cascading waterfall run” you simply take any 4 note chord (you can also do it with 3 note and 5 note chords, but 4 is probably easier simply because of the way our hands are built. Start high on the piano keyboard and simply break up the notes of the chord from the top down, then move to the next inversion of the same chord and do the same, and so on until you get as far down the keyboard as you want. Watch this short video and it will be clear to you:

There are countless things you can do to “fill up the empty spaces” in your piano playing, but the easiest kind of fill is a chordal echo. Like the word implies, you just echo the chord in force an octave or two above the previous chord. Listen to this short podcast and you’ll understand:

One of the most useful fillers for piano playing is the 2-1 breakup. It can be used in countless situations and is very easy to do. All you do is take any 3-note chord and play the top 2 notes and then the bottom note by itself. Then invert the chord up or down and do the same until the time alloted is used up. Watch the short video below and you will quickly understand: