Stop This Train might very well be my favorite song of all time. Wait. Haven’t I said that before? Well anyway, it’s enough for me to have put in about 20 hours of work to make this Stop This Train piano tutorial - which has become a real shiner. Hi Guys! Back in the day ... Read more
Maroon 5's This Love was the hit that first brought them fame. It's also their best song to date. Hi Guys! I remember when I first heard Maroon 5's first mega hit song "This Love." I was working at an ice cream parlor, saving up for what would be an awesome next year filled with ... Read more
Your Song by Elton John is one of the benchmark songs of Pop-Piano, placing Piano-driven pop songs firmly on the map. In this tutorial you'll learn the exact piano parts as per played on the record by Sir Elton John himself. And a few variations taken from some of his live renditions of Your Song. ... Read more
Feel it Still might very well be the best song of 2017. Heck. Portugal the Man might be the very best band we've seen enter the charts in years! What a track. I definitely feel it still. Hi Guys! How's it going? It was in fact my girlfriend who notified me of a "new song ... Read more
In this tutorial I'll show you one of the most-viewed acoustic tracks of John Mayer's show "where the light is" - his hauntingly beautiful performance of Tom Petty's Free Fallin' Hi Guys! How's it going? Free Fallin' is an immensely popular song from John Mayer's "Where the light is." A live CD/DVD where John shows ... Read more
Roses by Outkast might just have one of the most awesome piano intros out there. In this lesson we’ll break down that exact piano intro, chord by chord, lick by lick. Hi Guys! What's up? When I myself first heard the tune Roses by Outkast, I couldn't play piano yet. I recall that moment quite ... Read more
Billy Joel's "She's Always A Woman" is yet again a perfect embodiment of how to play piano by chords ear and heart. Hi Guys! How's it going? Due to the grand success and enthusiasm displayed regarding the previous Billy Joel lesson, another one of his that maybe even holds my personal preference in terms of ... Read more
Probably the most iconic piano song of all time. Billy Joel's classic "Piano Man" uses hints of Jazz, Blues and Pop-Piano and is an embodiment of Piano Couture's chordal approach to playing piano. Hi Guys! What's up? In a time that's both super-exciting and utterly rough (more in-depth personal story in the newsletter and to ... Read more
Ed Sheeran's Shape of You might be one of the easiest songs you've wanted to learn lately. However, in this sub-5 minute tutorial I'll also show a couple of alternative ways to play this 4 chord loop - perfect for you beginners looking to get some tips on how to "body-up" your chords Hi Guys! ... Read more
If you're looking to learn how to play the beautiful "Say You Won't Let Go" by James Arthur on piano - this is your post. Hi Guys! How's it going? This week finally another song tutorial. Has been a while, since I did one of those. This in the light of shifting more towards the ... Read more
re: stacks - as I've already mentioned a few times before, is one of my favorite tracks of all times. However bare and simple the recording (crappy even!), the bed of harmonies, supporting that hauntingly gorgeous melody is just so unbelievably strong. Music in its purest form. Beautiful. So, a few weeks ago, since I was just starting ... Read more
With Isn't She Lovely, Stevie Wonder was an early pioneer, bridging a gap between Jazz -with its heavily extended voicings and 2-5-1's- and Pop -where four chord loops would become the standard. Although premiering this blunt form of turnaround, because of it's juicy implied "V" (the dominant in the "in between" 2-5-1, leading to a ... Read more
I decided to stick with the big hits one more time this week, so if you're interested in how to play Billboard's current no 1, The Chainsmokers - Closer, this is your tutorial. Consisting out of just 3 - albeit quite juicy extended - chords, this tune once again proves how monotonously minded and sound/production driven ... Read more
Sia keeps outdoing herself in the field of chart topping pop music. Hit after hit come from her hand and/or throat and I am quite positive that with her (now still new) "The Greatest" she is again shooting for peak position. After hearing the arguably biggest name in current popular music - Sia play her ... Read more
Jamie’s “These Are The Days” is one of those perfect pop/jazz-piano-mix tunes that holds a TON of valuable skills, licks & techniques to re-use in the rest of your playing. A true treasure trove. I could write a ton about Jamie as a pianist. How awesome, talented and crazy skilled he is on the keys and ... Read more
How could I not make a solid tutorial of THE summer hit of 2016 -Justin’s “Can’t Stop The Feeling”- when it holds such an extensive amount of funk, groove, fresh- and tightness, mainly because of its killer bassline? Yes I know. I’m a bit on the late side with publishing this one. Sorry for that. However, I felt it ... Read more
How to play Prince – I Wanna Be Your Lover. Prince is cool. Was cool -sadly-. Super cool. Right? One of those one-in-a-billion musicians of a simply out of this world caliber. Playing in their very own ballpark with the likes of Michael, James, Marvin, Stevie and I could name a few more. But not ... Read more
An iconic Pop-Piano groove written and performed by an even more iconic band. The Beatles have been one of the early definers of pop music (and Pop-Piano with it). Their ingeniously crafted songs as well as trade-mark riffs -like the one on piano that I'll teach you in this lesson- have been an inspiration for generations to come. By ... Read more
Yet another fine example in the series “how to translate guitar grooves to the keys,” using a more current hit-song: Shawn Mendes – Stitches Piano Tutorial turned out to be another gem for all of you more beginner Pop-Pianists. For those that know their chords and patterns, this one is actually quite easy to play, though ... Read more
Dire Straits - On Every Street is one of those songs that makes you wonder where real music has gone these days. When I first heard the beautiful instrumental intermezzo -which later translates into the killer guitar-riff outro of this tune- I must admit there was a brief moment where I suspected angels to be peeing ... Read more
Stevie’s “I Was Made To Love Her” is one of those true classics that very few don’t know. On the other hand, very few do know how f’in badd-ass the bass part of this song -played by the great James Jamerson, the founder of “cool” contemporary bass playing in my humble opinion- actually is. The groove is ... Read more
A melodic piano riff, left hand chords and a juicy accompaniment part can all be found in this piano tutorial, where I teach you exactly how to play Lukas Graham - 7 years, his current beautiful piano-hit. As always, we'll be tackling the exact piano part(s) as played on the original record. Always nice to see a piano-driven ... Read more
A Justin Bieber Piano tutorial. Who’d ever thought I’d end up making one of those? Not me. I can tell you that much. What I can also tell you, is that it very likely won’t be the last, ’cause like so many others I’m officially converted and from the hater I once was, I too am now ... Read more
When thinking Pop-Piano, it’s hard not to note the awesome influencer, pioneer really, of this style: Billy Joel - and maybe particularly, his iconic song: New York State of Mind. Now Billy has quite a few really nice, iconic Pop-Piano tunes under his singer-songwriter belt, but the out of this world piano intro to this particular ... Read more
If you’re looking to get funky, simulating an out-of-this-world bass part with your left hand -upping your the skills of that hand AND your timing an uncountable amount of levels once aced- than: this is your song. Holy crap I just can’t get enough of the funk in this track by the Weeknd. Really impressed here with ... Read more
Typical Bond-style Orchestration and a Pop-Piano-at-its-finest part, supporting yet another killer vocal-performance from our good friend Sam Smith. Sam oh Sam. You're blowing up man. An f'in BOND theme-song? Wow. But let's be honest: 100% deserved. What a singer. For a Bond theme-song, I think this one's actually a pretty cool tune too, right? Gotta love those Bond vibes. The ... Read more
Do not confuse Adele with Lionel. I know. They’re probably literal opposites, but still. It’s a bold move from this British diva choosing a song title that is already… -looking for superlative… found none- quite famous. So they might indeed be opposites as to what meets the eye, however now they also have two major things ... Read more
Some credit to the “founders” of our style (Pop-Piano), I thought, would for a change be in order again. There’s something about classic tunes.. I mean, who makes songs like these anymore nowadays? Right? A guy, a piano, a strong melody, solid harmonies played in an organic way on our beloved beast of an instrument. ... Read more
Every now and then -it’s rare, but it happens- a magician arises from the deep dark depths of music-wonderland. With so many crap pumped out and stuffed in our faces by the wealthy record companies via the main Radio, TV and Internet channels these days, I’m even happier when this happens now than ever before. ... Read more
Easy stuff to play here when you know your chords and patterns, yet very demonstrative showing how cool an simple three-chord part can become when adding a nice basic break-up pattern. Looking for a nice piano-driven track to suit you beginner Pop-Pianists, I felt OMI’s feel-good-summer-vibin’ track “Cheerleader” -which tops this week charts- could not ... Read more
Get ready to groove your socks off, upping your left hand bass skills while learning this brand new feel-good tune by happy(ness) generator Pharell. He did it again, or in any way is going to do it again. Launching together with and on the recently released Apple Music platform as a feature track, both starring in the official ... Read more
Probably one of my most in-depth, versatile tutorials to date. Obviously I felt the need to put in some extra effort here, since this mega-hit -originally written on a piano by a professional Pop-Pianist (Charlie Puth)- features such an impressive set of Pop-Piano skills and techniques that watching this lesson alone could give you a ... Read more
What a beast of a piano sound. Quite the cool voicing techniques in this one as well, smoothing that sweet set of chords out over this killer piano-riff intro. I figured it was time to record and post some Rihanna again! The tutorial for this song of hers is suitable for you intermediate players that ... Read more
Althought the chords in this one are quite smooth, since they’re simply laid down this song really isn’t that hard to play.
Quite suitable for beginner pianists that want to get these chords at their fingertips or aspiring singer-pianists that haven’t gotten a tight hold of rhythms & patterns yet, but do want to sing while providing themselves with nice harmonies.
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
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.
Now here's one that is very suited if you're just starting out with Pop-Piano. Yes, I know guys. It's been a while. Quite a while. I wanna start by saying thanks for all of you that have been eagerly waiting and kept faith. Those of you that shot me messages asking, pleading, BEGGING for new ... Read more
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.
Why? Where have I been?
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:
Timeless piano-riffs are those that just ‘ring’. That sound brilliant and get stuck in your mind the very moment you hear 'em. Good old, true Pop-Piano music: music that is driven by one of those masterly crafted riffs, played on our beloved instrument. This is one of ‘em. And guess what I’m gonna show you today? How it’s built (out of chords and patterns of course!) and how to play it.
I don't think you'd really have to be 'into' hiphop to appreciate both the inspiring lyrics and the out-of-this-world, coolness-oozing piano riff that carries the track by this awesome pianist. Let me take you by the hand here and introduce you to the amazing Robert Glasper.
Concept learning. That is what this lesson is all about and that is exactly what I love about- and what for me defines Pop-Piano vs. conventional piano-learning.
Some tunes just have that quality of instantly becoming a true Pop-Piano classic. Driven by one of those killer Piano-riffs (you guessed it, created and played all by- and with Pop-Piano techniques), that are so signature for this awesome band, one might call this song the summum of Pop-Piano music.
Guitar-riffs on piano truly can sound wonderful sometimes. This is yet another example of copying some phrases played on another instrument (yes, you guessed it: guitar), adding some 'piano flavored techniques' (and some of my own sweet and sour taste) to it and creating a unique but awesome piano part.
Ok guys, we've seen quite some nice songs pass the tutorial bridge, sure. We've also had our fair share of fine grooves that -when played IN the groove- made you wanna dance like there is no tomorrow. But this one...
Boogie, soul and funky old school swing at it's finest. It's truly one of those classics that have founded and inspired a whole generation of songs to follow in it's path and beyond. Awesome music.
Old cities have always intrigued me. As have old songs. Don't you feel that music was just a tad better back in the day?
No?
Then I'm left with only these two suggestions:
Where would you rather be? Jess Glynne, the super-talented guest vocalist for this mega-hit by Clean Bandit sings to us there’s no place she’d rather be and frankly so there is for me :). Perfectly happy actually. However, that question might get you (as it got me) thinking about setting some goals for yourself. Preferably piano oriented if I may hand you a suggestion ;). Where would you rather be in regard to your level of playing?
What an extensive, much-to-be-learnt from lesson this turned out to be. A super cool song to start with, of course. Killer track. When I flipped on the camera to film this one I knew it would become quite the tough lesson to learn, but that it would become such a gem of a tutorial … (which is not to brag btw. ‘cause that’s not completely my doing here, just a LOT of different Pop-Piano techniques, -tips, -tricks and -know-how’s come together in this song).
The mega-popular first single of this alternative teenage hit machine has truly left it’s mark in all of the western world’s musical memory, putting Lorde firmly on the charts.
Although Royals’ has also been requested quite a few times, since the song is mainly vocal-oriented -and y’all know it’s quite lame to copy vocal lines on a piano-, I decided to go for this super-nice example of using a few easy triads and inversions from the slightly more advanced key of F#, play ‘em on a cool synthesizer (piano works perfectly fine too, as you’ll hear) in super-easy pattern and shine-follow-up: her second hit ‘Team’.
A simple pattern over our oh so beloved four-chord progression creates this atmospheric keyboard part.
A beautiful piano-ballad which perfectly illustrates and exemplifies how the relationship to the harmony (and thereby sound and atmosphere) of playing the exact same note supported by different chords / bass notes completely changes.
Those of you that have been following me for a longer time know that I just love to play these guitar-riff based songs on the piano.
No piano in the original? Well let's just listen to what the other instruments do and use Chords and Patterns to translate those parts to our much beloved keyboard, creating a piano part ourselves!
An (overly?) produced super-hit that in fact turned out to hold a really (really!) nice piano-part.
When I started to listen what chords this song was built of and make my own piano version out of them by copying some of the synths from the original, I was happily surprised with the beauty of the actual song that came out. Of course, it had already occurred to me that this song had something special when I heard it one of the million-and-some times on the radio wherever I go lately, but translating such a heavily electronic song into an acoustic piano part always does something special to reveal the bare-naked niceness (when it's there) of a tune, doesn't it?
Pop-Piano at it's finest.
Apart from the stunning and heartfelt vocal performance of mister Hiatt on this track, this is one of the greatest examples of just how simple a piano-riff can be to create an atmosphere to melt even the coldest of ices.
In this lesson of course I'll also explain it's 'origin' - the chords and pattern that the riff are built of - in detail so you'll both understand- and be able to reproduce it in many other ways, just like -as you'll also see later in the tutorial- John does himself later on in the song.
Chart-topping, four chord songs. Haven't we already seen quite a few of those...
This is yet another one of those (melody) riff-based tunes that oh so many of you seem to love (request for this one were off the charts).
Dear darlin',
I just wanted to say,
in the exciting spirit of an upcoming day,
another nice Pop-Piano song for you to learn and play.
A super-easy to play song, yet again grooving steadily on the hip-hop mantra:
The title of this song describes my current situation and that of Piano Couture as a whole quite well, actually.
This one is all about the good fortune, smiles, laughter, joy and super-exciting new Pop-Piano skills to be learnt along with it.
You all know this mega-hit that makes your booty shake like there is no tomorrow and as most of you indicated you'd like to know how to play it too, so here it is, tutorialized all for you: 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams.
Our beloved pop-diva Rihanna is on the menu again, with yet another killer Pop-Piano-riff based hit of hers: the awesome 'What Now'.
The intro and verse are obviously very piano oriented. In the first part of the tutorial (up now) I'll explain exactly what's going on and how to play it.
For the second part (coming up Jan. 11), which has a less obvious piano version lurking inside, I created a very own and unique translation-to-the-piano out of all those monstrous synths and beats. (stay tuned).
What a song. Awesome lessons to be learnt here.
'Counting stars' is yet another example of what magic a nice arrangement, -production and - different vocal melodies can do to yet another, mere four chord progression.
In this tutorial I'll show you some various ways of playing them, using some Pop-Piano techniques to both copy the original piano from the record, as to simulate a different instrumental parts and create a unique piano version.
Let’s keep it real..
..that ‘cup-beat’ is definitely awesome, but try and do that with a cup, not a piano ;).
What I WILL teach you in this tutorial is how to play that awesome intro which, on the record, is played by multiple ukulele’s (“what the heck is that?” you ask? A tiny guitar.) by showing a cool pattern over the ruling harmony at that moment in the song: the extension-chord C6add9.
This guy just keeps pumpin' out hits.
In this lesson I'll show you once more how to use Pop-Piano skills to translate guitar parts to piano and create your own unique piano versions.
Add some vocals (optional) and you're good to shine.
This two part tutorial for 'Hey Brother' features:
Talk about a classic.
Michael Jackson... yeah.. I'd really like to write a million words, but nothing that I'd jot down would come even close to doing this man the right he deserves.
He touched, moved, brightened, enlightened, brought joy, tears, moved hips and stirred souls, all through his ground-breaking music.
King of pop. Well, let's just say that sounds like someone that might be fun and educational to learn from! Right?
Yes. This is what being in control of chords and patterns, bringing it back to a fairly basic, but really wonderful piano arrangement means. John Legend is of course a master of the pop-meets-soul-piano-song, and uses the exact methods of playing Pop/Chord/Pattern piano from ‘Hack the Piano‘ to build his beautiful piano songs with. So, for ... Read more
And what an absolute magical track this is. As we've seen quite a few times already, Chris Martin (singer and pianist of Coldplay) really knows how to put his chords and patterns to good use. He is a truly marvellous example of a Pop-Pianist.
This new song of theirs, yet again holds a wonderful (and quite extensive, 14 different chords/voicings for just the verse) chord progression using really nice voicings and inversions and a hauntingly beautiful broken-chord pattern.
5 easy chords (just triads with a few inversions used, nothing too advanced here), a killer guitar-strum transformed into a piano pattern and a melodic hook + left hand 'comping' that will seriously challenge and improve your technical skills and voicing-knowledge.
This week I have a very nice one for all you up-tempo lovers, blues-piano style lovers, Motown-feel lovers and Northern-soul fans out there.
John Newman, the up and coming rising star (his first hit "Love me again", has already topped the English charts at peak position no. 1, click here for my lesson featuring that song if you missed it earlier), is about to officially release his second single: 'Cheating' in the first week of October 2013.
However, the official music video on youtube has already reached an outrageous 2 million views in just over three weeks time.
Want to be the first to play this song, even before it is officially released? Well, I got just the thing for you right here! :).
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
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.
Now this one is funky.
I think this lesson demonstrates perfectly, how using and adding different patterns can totally transform a piano-part.
First, using and learning the original piano part from this track (that what the actual piano plays on the record), we'll get to know the chords and how to lay 'em down nicely to provide a beautiful harmony-carpet.
Then, in the second half of the video, I'll show you the 'funky' version. That what is played by one of the Electric-Piano's on the record.
Two songs for the price of one! 😀
An all time favourite of mine. In both versions I might add.
I fell in love with this song as a teenager when I first heard it in 2pac's hip-hop version. What a beat. What a groove. What a sweet, sweet Rhodes.
The Bobby Caldwell version, another absolute classic, currently has a steady place in my very own cover-repertoire.
In this lesson I'll show you both versions.
For those of you that are progressing nicely with the course and / or chord- and pattern-knowledge: here's a nice challenge for ya!
Another beautiful 'advanced' piano song.
Another brilliant guitar song by an absolutely brilliant musician, songwriter, singer, guitarist.
I thought that translating this awesome groove, nice chords and patterns to another home-brewn piano version would be more then welcome for the large majority of you.
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!
Any questions, remarks, suggestions, or just plain ‘hi’s’ to spill? Leave a comment below the post!
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!
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
I have to be honest: Christmas songs are -by default- cliché, sweeter then honey and more commercially-loaded then all the christmas-sales they provide with their ofter predictable, inspiration-lacking words and melodies. I love ’em. Most of them not for music’s sake though. Almost any musician is disgusted with them, mainly for the above mentioned ... 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! Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebeurt op deze community en ... 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! Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebeurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen ... Read more
The intro of a beautiful tune, all instrumental, featuring a right hand melody part. A nice exercise for playing single notes with the right hand and chords with the left.
All the sheets from the video can be found below the video (right-click and save to save).
For a more in-depth tutorial click here. 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!
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! Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebeurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen met Piano ... Read more
Here's how to play Stevie Wonder - I Wish! For a more in-depth lesson on this song click here. Questions? Remarks? Show me how you play this song! Please leave a comment below!
For a -waaaayyyyyy- more in-depth lesson of this song take a look here and here. 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! Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat ... Read more
Ah, the Scientist. What a song. Inspired so many people to start playing pop-piano. Chris Martin (the lead vocalist and piano player of Coldplay) is somebody that knows his pop-piano. Knows his chords, knows his patterns. Mixes them up, combines them and uses the exact techniques that I am trying so hard to teach ... Read more
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
Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebreurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen met Piano Couture's Basiscursus Pop Piano.
I advice reading the post 'Using chords to see and simplify note relations' before going ahead and learning this song to help you better understand the structure and learn a wise piano lesson from it. Then try and look at the song and see how difficult you find it after that story, when I ... 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! Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebreurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen met ... Read more
This version (possibly pretty much the closest you can get to the original) of the mighty song 'Paradise" by Coldplay implies a wide array of different techniques and (theoretic) skills all found in the course. Note that the version of this tutorial is quite advanced, but in this lesson I'll also give you ... Read more
Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebreurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen met Piano Couture’s Basiscursus Pop Piano.
Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebreurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen met Piano Couture's Basiscursus Pop Piano.
Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebreurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen met Piano Couture's Basiscursus Pop Piano.
Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebreurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen met Piano Couture's Basiscursus Pop Piano.
Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebreurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen met Piano Couture's Basiscursus Pop Piano.
Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebreurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen met Piano Couture's Basiscursus Pop Piano.
Begrijp je niet wat hier gebeurt en wil je dat wel graag? Leer zelf spelen, -alles wat er gebreurt op deze community en de piano echt begrijpen met Piano Couture's Basiscursus Pop Piano.
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