This song is absolutely beautiful. It’s also very, very suitable for exemplifying how to awesomely use chords and patterns to create / play a piano part. I hope that -if you don’t already know him- it’ll also introduce you to the great Matt Corby. Those of you that have ‘liked’ and are following the Facebook ... Read more
Piano Grooves, patterns, very nice chords. Educational, fun, funky, groovy I just love this song.
A Prince original, made famous (again) by Alicia Keys a while ago.
Have a lot of fun with it!
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This is yet another great example of what can be accomplished by knowing your chords and combine them with a nice set of basic-pattern combination.
Bruno really pours his heart out in this song, touching the hearts of ladies all over the world. Bastard. 🙂
Wanna do the same? Play the piano like he does! Here's how.
Hi All! What’s up? This week I have another massively popular song for you, requested to be ‘tutorialized’ a zillion times. It’s piano-based, thus hopefully easy to grasp and recognise. It’s chord / pattern based (as is all music) and although it’s not too hard to play, there are quite a few neat examples of ... Read more
Hi All! How’s everybody doing? This week is a very short, very informative and highly educational lesson featuring Rihanna’s current mega-hit Stay. Again Rihanna?! Yes, for those of you who mind: SORRY, but: She’s immensely popular (so this probably means the bigger part of you DOES enjoy her songs and learning them). This song demonstrates ... Read more
Questions? Remarks? Show me how you play this song! Please leave a comment below! I’m also very curious which tutorial you’d like to see next!
Hi All! How's everybody doing? Please, in the comments below this post, let us know what you're working on and how the playing is coming along! This week, I'll be handing you a very handy, time-saving and fun tip for learning even better and faster: Training piano, without a piano. Wha?! What are ... Read more
Hey All! What's up? Anything new you're playing you'd like to share? Anything new you'd like to learn? Please tell us all in the comments, or start a topic at the forum and let the whole piano community help you out! (at least, I will :)). Also check out the contest at the bottom of ... Read more
Hi all! How’s everybody doing? I must say that I’m a little disappointed and also scared, for I received not even one new-years-piano-goal-resolution, in the comments of last weeks post! Although a few of the emails I received from many of you, did contain a few (which I already told you, I cannot post in the comments ... Read more
“Still Dre” is just a true classic. One of those very well known, can’t get-out-of-your-head hip-hop beats that is as easy to play as it is catchy. As I say in the video, I put three chord pictures up to make it as clarifying as possible, but actually it’s just Am and Em(sus4) where the ... Read more
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