Back in the day, I was intrigued by Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Elton John, Alicia Keys, Gavin deGraw, Jamie Cullum, John Legend and my uncle Jeroen (man could he sing & play)
Just sit at the keys, never looking a sheets. Never exactly playing the same thing twice.
As if they were improvising every time.
So different from what I was used to from my classical sheets-lessons.
After making the connection that many guitar players were actually doing the same, I had a breakthrough..
Piano Like A Guitarist - Approaching piano through Chord-theory
Playing Chords got me much closer, but still not quite to that sound, quite that freedom.
After years of dissecting the how to play those Chords (and this really took me years and years, even beyond my Conservatory study) I was able to put it into a tangible, teachable framework:
- Rhythmical Patterns
- (Breaking) techniques
- Grooves
- Embellishments
- Fills
- Licks
- Improvised arrangements
- Freedom
These are the things that are not only harder to grasp than Chord-theory, but also take practice to internalize. You need to feel them.
And that is exactly what we’ll be working on in this BootCamp.
Understand - feel - practice - internalize.
This BootCamp focusses on the elusive "secrets" of Pop-Piano’s greats.
How they handle their chords to actually form that sound & create their compositions.
Grasping that will give you much more:
- Musicality
- Creativity
- Freedom
So... pretty much the best things about playing music. 😎
