12 Important Stuff You Need To Know About Piano Playing
How to play popular piano in 12 easy lesson
1st Chapter
Basic music theory/Technical Excersizes
• Building finger strength
• Daily warm-up exercises
• How to play better
• Practice Routines
• Patterns Using Arpeggios
• No Sheet Music
• Performance Skills emotions and moods can have variations within themselves can instantly create specific moods in your music.
• play soft - play loud
• play soft and loud
• Mix that with speed: practice fast, slow
• The Role of Expression: Control Tempo, Swing, Curve, velocity, Accents.
• Practicing for rhythm
• Practicing for expression : Fear, Anticipation, Sorrow , Joy
Anger Love, Hate, Compassion, Surprise, Tenderness, Anxiety.
• Melodic variety in Patterns
• Rhythmic variety in Patterns
• Variety within a Tune
• Double-Time-Half-Time
• Triple-Time Feel
• Turn , Inverted turn , Trill, Inverted trill, Mordent, Inverted mordent ,Tremolo, Appogiatura etc..
2nd Chapter
Most often used chord And Chord Progressions
• Chord progressions are the essential basis of contemporary western music as they establish the basic framework of a song
• Popular chord progressions . Composing with Chords and Fitting Chords and Melodies Together.
• Extracting harmony from melody Using chord changes
• Re-harmonize any familiar song
• Making progress with chord progressions and creating moods
• You can let your melodic ideas suggest different chords. How to Develop them.
• Chord Voicings for Two Hands
3rd Chapter
Chord Patterns
• Creating chord with different shapes
• Chord Techniques
• Chord Inversions
• Memorize patterns and try to turn them into improvisation
4th Chapter
Different scales
• Scales are one of the most fundamental and useful concepts in western music.
• Improvise with the scale,
• Using scales in composition
• Learn a variety of flexible scales that help you create musical ideas
• Rhythmizing scale sequences
5th Chapter
Diatonic scale and chord progression
• The diatonic circle progression is one of the most common progression you'll see in pop music.
6th Chapter
Mixed rhythmic training
• An internal understanding of tempo, or an internal rhythm
• Exploring various rhythmic ideas
• Rhythmic displacement
• Practice Method for Rhythms without playing the piano.
7th Chapter
Basic and advance rhythms
• Rhythmic motive
• Learn different types of Rhythms
• Rhythms can radically change the character of a piece. Learn How
Using Rhythmic Combinations.
• Thinking Like a Drummer
• Fusion of Styles and Rhythmic Ideas
8th Chapter
Improvising Melodies and Harmony
• Learn a variety of Patterns of musical forms for developing good improvisational skills.
• Create, develop, and express your own musical skills.
9th Chapter
Different patterns of playing notes
• Learn to create and develop melodies.
• Melodic phrases and patterns.
10th Chapter
Scale Motif
• Melodic Structure
• Building Melodies Using Motifs and Phrases
• Developing Your Melodies
• Memorize patterns and try to turn them into improvisation Creating Phrases Motif
• Memorize jazz patterns and try to turn them into improvisation
11th Chapter
Musical Modes
• Harmonizing with Melodies
• Develop a Vocabulary of Chord Progressions
• Learn to create and develop melodies first, then use changing chords.
12th Chapter
Musical patterns in different forms of music like Pop,rock,jazz,classical, folk etc..
• how to find inspiration for musical pieces
• Create, develop, and express your own musical ideas and phrases.