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Many of you like her, probably just as many of you don't. However, she's big and she knows how to make her hits.
This lesson teaches those of you that do like her how to play her current biggest hit. For the rest of you it's still a nice exercise of stripping down a monster production and building it back up to a fuller piano-part (chorus).
Yes, we've indeed already been quite funky a few times in the last few weeks, right?
Thing is, this tune just got me noddin' my head right away, the very first time I heard it. As I saw quite a few people around me doing the same whenever this song sounded, I figured the interest for learning how to play it might be quite high.
As there are no keys (piano) in the original, I also thought it might be another fun example / exercise of how to make a piano song out of a non-piano song, copying bass lines (left hand) and harmony parts (in this case a rhythm/funk guitar, right hand).
Super sweet, silky yet jumpy, very nice progression and of course: what a vocal track (not the "lalala", that's a sample, the actual singer. Nice).
Also, as you might have guessed (why else would I put it up??) it's another good, no wait, great example of:
This week is sort of a 'primer', as I decided to try something new: split up the tutorial.
This week our good friend and super-talented singer-songwriter Tom Odell shows us exactly what can be accomplished on the piano, using chord- and pattern-knowlegde. He truly is another perfect example of somebody that really knows how to put chords and patterns to good use in his music. Both for creating and performing his beautiful songs. ... Read more
Here's a very neat trick to find ANY major and minor chord, extracted and compressed from some of Hack the Piano’s new content.
Look, or actually listen, to what an upbeat pattern can do to a very simple, four-chord progression.
Absolutely stunningly danceable tune that's on it's way of conquering the charts.
Pricelessly beautiful music and .. yes.. you've guessed it: involving and revolving around Pop-Piano at it's best.
Since this week, the new All Major and Minor SCALES / KEYS Cheat Sheet was released and is now up for sale, I decided to give away a few by creating a very applicable contest:
Want to win? Here's how:
She's sad.
Guess we should be glad for that... else this song would have never been born, right?
A sweaty, sexy, beast of a beat.
The minimalist approach that we've seen entering the charts many times before is obviously working it's magic for this current monster-hit as well again.
Minimal also implies a not-too-hard to play piano part (which, as I also mention in the end of the video is actually played on a wonderful Rhodes piano).
Yes people, I've gone mad, bad and sadly very, very commercial on this one.
The thing is, I got such a lot of requests to make a lesson for this song, that, when realising it's actually quite a cool tune to learn for both beginners and 'über-pop'-lovers alike ON TOP OF the fact that it demonstrates what wonders a production can do to a relatively simple a piano part (i.e. turn it into something like this).. I decided to give in to your wish.
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