Lay Me Down – Sam Smith.

Pop Piano oozing all over this track. Quite a cool one for those of you that are just starting out learning some patterns, or who are trying to get a little closer with 7’s and some other extensions. Pretty decent (doable) level for a ‘accompany yourself’ rehearsal (or even: recital!). I put yet another ‘full ... Read more

W.I.L.T. - Marvin. Tha G.

'[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat I'm listening to' is a weekly series of music that reigns at the top of my personal playlist. Music that I think is cool and deserves a mention and some attention. This week: Marvin Gaye. I guess it's just one of those weeks. What can I say. One of the greats. Obviously always in ... Read more

Ed Sheeran - Thinking out loud Piano Tutorial

A primer, a ballzy improv of a Pop-Piano part and a full piano tutorial that might go deeper than I've ever gone featuring Ed's current mega-hit.

This song features a piano track (honors shared with the guitar, obviously) that once again exemplifies the capabilities of the Pop-Pianist that works his chord magic perfectly.

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I'm Not The Only One – Sam Smith.

Some serious Pop-Piano riffin’ going on in Sam’s new tune. 

Pretty easy to grasp (I hope) whilst VERY illustrative to show how to turn a few simple (but nice ‘eh?) chords into an actual piano part. In other words: how to play Pop-Piano: using chords and patterns, sound cool without limitations and play with heart, soul and ears. Easy does it, as this song shows once again.

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A Sky Full of Stars – Coldplay

Dance-style tracks often revolve around a fairly simple repetition of a riff and / or the same synth-pumping chord progression over and over, but when the main part of a tune – like with this weeks tutorial featuring mega-hit – is derived from a chord-style driven, organic Pop-Piano part like this… wow. Chris Martin, you’re the man.

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Stay With Me - Sam Smith

Ease comes in many forms. Personally I like the ones that sound good best, but that's just me 😉 . Sometimes the difficulty lays in finding that which is in the end turns out to be easy. Strip the whole shebang down to what's actually essential. Effective. And sometimes that leaves you with just 4 different notes for an entire verse.
Their (changing) mutual harmonic relationship is what is important though. That is what counts. That is what's valuable. Keeping that in mind, this weeks tutorial, however easy it may be, teaches us many chord-skill refining lessons actually, amongst which: 

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