Timing is everything 1. Stevie Wonder I Wish.

In the previous few lessons, I told you about the importance of bass notes and what ‘optional’ notes arise by using the bass to define the harmony. In this particular lesson, using the famous keyboard groove of Stevie Wonder I Wish Now, as many of you know, I like to approach the ‘theory’ part of ... Read more

Billie Jean part 2: full song++

Last time we finished by taking a quick look at the first and most important part of the whole song: the bass line. Just like the original, this video starts with this 'one-in-a-million', signature part of the song. As I want to teach you about the importance of bass notes, devoting such a major, two-part lesson ... Read more

Unzipping Billy's Jeans - Creating your own harmony 2.

  In the previous lesson I started telling you a bit about harmonizing a melody. A skill you can either use to build your very own, unique piano part for a song, or to easily find out what specific instruments are playing on an original recording, for you to copy those parts to the piano. ... Read more

Somebody that I used to know – Gotye

  What? Just these three simple chords? Most definitely. This tutorial will give you a perfect example of just how complex you can get, by creating / copying different instrumental parts, cross-flowing over- and into each other, when diving into the options that chords give you when combined with different patterns. Using different inversions, the ... Read more

Acoustic Piano - Upright

The ‘regular’ piano. Although it’s sound, ranging from flanging, drunken and out of tune, cowboy-saloon honkey-tonks to bombastic, heavily-compressed rock-slammers, is far from ‘regular’, but closer to both spectacularly beautiful and extremely recognizable, this instrument is what most people think of when hearing the word ‘piano’. It is one of the most popular instruments in ... Read more

Using chords to see and simplify note relations.

Hi All! To illustrate this lesson, I'll use the song '9 crimes' which features a piano riff of 2 measures (8, 4th-note beats) that starts at the very beginning of the song, and except for very minor variations on the first chord (which wel’ll see in a sec is Amadd9) continues in exactly the same ... Read more

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