Simple piano techniques. Beautiful sounds.
As I write this, we are in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic. It’s a stressful time for many people, and for many different reasons. I’ve always found the piano to be a source of relaxation and stress relief – like a trusted friend just waiting to help me through difficult times. Whether it’s the middle
Let’s say you’re sitting at your piano or keyboard, looking at an unfamiliar piece of sheet music, or maybe a lead sheet you found online, and you come across a piano chord you haven’t seen before. If you have my free visual piano chord chart, you would have a 98% chance of simply finding a
Jazz piano can seem kind of “mysterious” or “magical” to the uninitiated or untrained, but once you know a few basic tricks, it’s easy to see how to create your own jazz piano arrangement using just a few standard techniques. In this post, I’ll show you – in both video and text/picture form – how
I like Barry Manilow. There, I said it. I’m a grown man with a beautiful wife and 4 growing children, and I’m a professional piano player. And I like Barry Manilow. I can still remember listening to an 8-track tape of his Greatest Hits and playing his songs on the piano as a teenager… watching
Contrary to my own kind of mental block I’ve had for years, and possibly your own belief about your ability to play “flashy” piano licks and styles, boogie woogie piano is amazingly easy to play, and all it takes is a little analysis of some bass patterns and right-hand licks, with a few turnarounds and
372 chords covering all keys, and NO sheet music to read!