Monday, May 25, 2015

Lovely day in E

1-4-5 Progression

Today's lesson will show the 1-4-5 progression making use of both hand chords. This is building on my previous lesson.

1-4-5 progression in the key of Db:

This progression can be used in a song as is or the chords are individually helpful too. So let's look at the 3 chords!


Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Proper Technique when playing the piano

Have you ever experienced pain in your wrist after playing for a long time. This is probably because you haven't developed proper technique. About a month ago I started practicing different scales over different chords and after a while my wrist became very tensed to a point that I couldn't play for about a week. Speed development was also limited due to this.

After lots of research I came across a website with some lessons from Zach Evans, a piano player and instructor. He has some good tips on how to develop proper technique. I recently discovered this issue so I will have to unlearn some bad techniques that I developed over the years. Please learn from my mistakes and take advantage of this opportunity You can find him at bestpianotips.com. He also has a Youtube channel that you can subscribe to. 

God bless!

Thursday, May 7, 2015

How to transpose keys

Hi there,

Today's lesson covers the concept of how to transpose from one key to the next. This is important if you want to master playing all 12 keys. I've taken the time to create a video lesson. Please note it is my first, so be a little patient if there are some hick ups.

Hope you enjoy!



You can use this idea and try to implement it with the previous article that covers "Building on Major and Minor chords". Try and learn all those chords in the chart in all 12 keys! This will give you a very solid foundation!

Here is an original composition that I created by practicing most frequently used chords. Hope you enjoy and please subscribe to my YouTube channel for more upcoming lessons.



Please like, share, comment.

God bless!