Hi All! How’s everybody doing? First of all: Thanks so much for all the kind, sweet, supporting, enthusiastic and positive responses that I received on last weeks, first V-log try! Success. 🙂 Therefore, hereby my second try (taken into account all the feedback I got, hopefully already a little better than the first one, like ... Read more

  Hi All! Yes, yes, yes, it’s here! The brand-new post / newsletter format! It’s 4-part newnewnewnew: 1. In stead of the long, text-based lessons, there’s now a VIDEO lesson (oh shizzle, you finally get to see my face!) with me explaining some kind of piano-related technique. It will either be a cool pattern, a lick, ... Read more

Hi All!   This week I've reached a few very special milestones, that I'd like to share with you who made all of this possible:   500 subscribers on the youtube channel! Yaj! :). Thanks to all you tubers! Please keep sharing and liking the video's.    This '500-subscriber-milestone' is one that I've had in ... Read more

Hi all!   This week I'll continue where I left of last week, showing you the highly effective method B of our three-part travel practice routine.   Method B. Seeing sounds. Where does it work: train, bus, subway, tram, airplane or any other form of public transport + everywhere and every time you have to ... Read more

Hi all! What's up? Today I'm going to devote a lesson to a much requested, follow-up tutorial, to the quite popular youtube video that I made just over a month ago and has already reached over 19000 views in this short period! Wow. Thanks to all you viewers :). By the way, my youtube channel ... Read more

Hi All! How was your X-mas? Did you manage to surprise any family members, playing ‘Wonderful Christmas Time’ from last weeks lesson? I sure did. Well, ‘surprised’ might be a bit to big of a word, as they know I can play a bit of piano by now ;), but we sang. Oh did we ... Read more

Hi All! In this post I'll be talking about an unconventional approach that can help you both better understand music and learn it in a faster and more convenient way, by challenging a 'piano-learning status quo': Using the 'single note'-approach as 'the basics' and first step in learning. Could a 'chords-as-a-first-step'-approach to learning music, only ... Read more

Hi all! This week I have three very cool things for you: 1. A brand new tutorial for a song of one of my all-time favourites: Sting. Wow. As many of you that know this world-famous masterpiece of a song 'Fragile' might recall, the song is not originally played on piano but on guitar. So ... Read more

In this lesson I’ll be talking a little more about translating different instrument parts to the piano, and thus: how you can make your very own piano-part for any song (even those that haven’t got any piano in it) using chords and -especially- choosing your patterns wisely. To make sure (or at least enhance the chance) that ... Read more

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

  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

  As you’ve probably seen in one or more of my video’s -or any of the many other tutorials found on youtube- not all songs that are explained and played on the piano, are songs that are originally played on (just) a piano. Now, how is it possible to play a song that has no ... Read more

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

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

  In this post I’ll talk a little about the role and the musical approach of guitar players in pop-music and how we can ‘borrow’ certain techniques from these pop-guitarists and use them to our advantage in tackling pop-music on the piano. Campfires, guitars and a contradiction. All of you have probably witnessed one or ... Read more