This document provides an introduction to piano technique through 86 chapters that cover a wide range of topics. These include exercises for developing skills like hand independence, comping, improvisation, different piano styles like blues, boogie woogie and jazz, chord voicings, scales, chord progressions, songwriting, and more. The goal is to help readers improve their piano playing abilities through learning essential techniques.
This document provides an introduction to piano technique through 86 chapters that cover a wide range of topics. These include exercises for developing skills like hand independence, comping, improvisation, different piano styles like blues, boogie woogie and jazz, chord voicings, scales, chord progressions, songwriting, and more. The goal is to help readers improve their piano playing abilities through learning essential techniques.
This document provides an introduction to piano technique through 86 chapters that cover a wide range of topics. These include exercises for developing skills like hand independence, comping, improvisation, different piano styles like blues, boogie woogie and jazz, chord voicings, scales, chord progressions, songwriting, and more. The goal is to help readers improve their piano playing abilities through learning essential techniques.
This document provides an introduction to piano technique through 86 chapters that cover a wide range of topics. These include exercises for developing skills like hand independence, comping, improvisation, different piano styles like blues, boogie woogie and jazz, chord voicings, scales, chord progressions, songwriting, and more. The goal is to help readers improve their piano playing abilities through learning essential techniques.
2. A cocktail piano walkthrough 3. A couple of piano hand independence exercises 4. A couple of useful turnarounds / vamps 5. A quick piano blues turnaround 6. A rhythm exercise for pop piano comps 7. Advanced ballad comping exercise 8. Advanced blues piano tutorial - playing blues in E 9. An easy cocktail piano exercise 10.Αugmented 11.Basic jazz piano comping 1 12.Bass voicings 13.Blues and boogie woogie 14.Blues piano solo 15.Buddy Bolden's Blues 16.Building seventh chords on the piano keyboard 17.Choosing and using piano chord fingerings 18.Choosing chord inversions in a comp 19.Chord resolution 20.Classic boogie woogie piano bass line 21.Cocktail piano tutorial - the basics 22.Comping Pop Piano 23.Compound licks for blues and jazz 24.Crush notes for blues piano 25.Diminished and diminished seventh 26.Easy Piano Improv: The 4 Minute Jazz Piano Tutorial 27.Easy piano tutorial: arpeggios (Adele) 28.Extending piano chords in a simple progression 29.Flat ninths and tritone substitutions 30.Folk rock/soft rock piano exercise 31.Hammond organ improvisation technique 32.How chord progressions work 33.How classical piano can help your improvisation 34.How to write a song 35.Improving your jazz piano comps 36.Intervals - the basics for musicians and songwriters 37.Introduction to comping 38.Jazz improvisation on A Foggy Day 39.Jazz piano improvisation exercise - C minor 40.Jazz piano improvisation exercise - dorian mode 41.Jazz piano improvisation exercise - E flat 42.Jazz piano improvisation: pentatonics 43.Learn blues piano: the basics 44.Learning piano chord positions 45.Minor chords in major keys 46.More cocktail piano - arpeggio runs 47.More piano hand independence exercises 48.Ninths and "the country third" 49.Pentatonic scales for improvisation 50.Piano boogie woogie walkthrough 51.Piano broken chords for the left hand 52.Piano chords basics - make your progressions flow 53.Piano chords: some tips for non-pianists 54.Piano chords: the dominant seventh 55.Piano crush notes in other blues keys 56.Piano improvisation detailed walkthrough 57.Piano improvisation exercise - minor pentatonic 58.Piano improvisation exercise in C (with easy left hand!) 59.Piano improvisation: back to basics 60.Piano improvisation: how do I know which notes I can play? 61.Piano scales - why bother? 62.Piano tutorial: adding ninths and sus fourths 63.Piano tutorial: chord progressions and dominant chords 64.Play rock piano 65.Playing blues piano in E, A and D 66.Pop piano comping exercise, five chords 67.Practising 1-4-5 piano chords 68.Practising swing rhythms on the piano 69.Really basic harmony 70.Right hand chords in piano blues and boogie woogie 71.Right hand leading in pop piano comps 72.Shell chords for jazz piano left hand 73.Songwriting chord progressions 74.Split chords on the piano - some basics 75.St. James Infirmary Blues 76.Stride piano - basics of the left hand stride 77.The major seventh 78.The suspended fourth (sus or sus4) 79.Tips on piano chord voicing 80.Tremolos and arpeggios 81.Two and a half tips for smoother piano playing 82.Two-chord piano improvisation 83.Using your piano's sustain pedal 84.Various types of 6th and 7th 85.Walking bass lines on piano 86.Working with non-diatonic chords in progressions