Jazz has a rather undeserved reputation as background music to put on while having a dinner party, reading a book, or meditating. However, if you have never considered yourself a fan of jazz in the past, there is a good chance you may have already liked a jazz song, but […]
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Frank “Sugar Chile Robinson” really knows how to pound on that piano! His feet don’t even touch the ground..pretty adorable, but he means business! He’s so awesomely talented at such a young age!
Here is an example of the pink panther when you put it all together slowly.
Here is a pattern that you can use in a lot of pop, rock or blues songs. It is one of the most common patterns on the piano… The trick is to find ways to add variation to it!
Gospel has a lot of characteristic sounds that you don’t hear frequently in other styles. A good example is playing a #4diminished chord. In the video we’re playing in the key of C so the #4 diminished chord is F#o. Sound’s very gospelish.
Here are a bunch of licks! You should be keeping a small book of all the licks you’ve worked on so that you don’t forget them and can go back and review them when you need to polish them up or try them in a few keys! Steal some of […]
This is a quick video lesson for Hey Jude. Its a good example of how to play the chords in the Right hand with a bass line. At the end I threw in a couple licks… some of them are better than others! Pick what you can 🙂
When students learn from multiple modalities, concepts have a much better chance of sinking in. We’ll try and show students an example by playing it for them. We’ll have them have them read the example. Then actually breaking something down step by step and walking them through the motions really […]
Catalina has worked very hard since the Dueling Pianos Student Recital! She has taken control of her lesson time and is really focused on learning new songs and reading!