Meet Jordan Stoneman! Jordan is more explosive than a stick of dynamite! He started performing dueling piano shows in Salt Lake City in 2007. Now he plays at Chopstix in Seattle 4 nights a week. Teaching Focus His kind tone makes it easy for students of all ages to relate […]
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This video shows how to add in some extra notes to the right hand and left hand bass line for rocket man!!!
Here is an example of the pink panther when you put it all together slowly.
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 […]
Here are some left hand patterns for the sweet home Alabama exercise. notice at the end some of the fills and walk ups back to the G chord. You can precede the g chord with E, F, F# and then G.
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 🙂
Tritone substitution is awesome. check out chapter 6 in the mark levine book for a better explanation
This is a cool sounding way to play a I to IV progression. The right hand is using 9ths and 13ths on the dominant 7th chords with the smoothest motion possible. (some of the notes are staying the same and others only move a short distance as the chord changes).