4 Easy Piano Tricks To Sound Like A Pro 

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David is the best teacher I have ever experienced, and Im 61! Ive had school teachers, university professors in natural sciences, professional trade teachers. Somehow he expresses himself very clearly, understandably and relaxed in a way that draws your attention. I think even the best education does not make you a good teacher if you dont have the right charisma, if you can not pull the students with you. And David can, plus he has obviously a good education behind him.

Also Kevin Castro is ace. I have invested in lifetime membership

Appreciate for that

Wow! I didn’t know that!

Jajaja, así es, nunca pensé en eso

😂 so true!

Pianazo!

Jajaja tremendo pianote, cierto. I speak Spanish and I never considered such thing.

See if you can find the isolated bass line for the iconic Yes song "Roundabout", in which Chris Squires plays (or praps more accurately, ghosts) grace notes to several notes in succession during the pattern which runs under each verse. In each case the grace note was simply a repetition of the note he was moving from, which in some contexts works very well. It's technically quite hard for a keyboard player if the tempo is fast, but there is almost always a crafty fingering which can render it possible if you care to put in the time for experimentation. If you can't find the isolated bass track, or even if you can, it's well worth listening to Rick Beato dissect this phenomenal tour de force of rock music on his "what makes this song great" series. I recall him briefly discussing the bass line, which he isolated. A keyboard bass line with fantastically funky grace notes is Herbie Hancock's left hand, in any performance of Chameleon. Many of the grace notes are either an octave, or a seventh, above the note being graced.

@@Gottenhimfella Thanks for your answer! I looked that bass line up (while Beato kind of "strikes the wrong chord" for me). It is undoubtedly a stroke of genious, but it still remains a single bass line - and doesn't answer the question that I tried to raise (in a language that's not my mother tongue). My question concerned harmonic context, which we don't have in the bass line. For example, David plays a grace note for the third of chord at the five minute mark of the video, and he plays it 'top-down'. Could he do the same thing in the same situation for the fifth or the root note?

@@Ilmatar101 I took it from your first post, when you said " I kind of struggle choosing what note I 'grace up' or 'grace down' in the *bass* " that you were asking about bass lines, which are usually one note at a time (monophonic) lines. It seems I read too much into that word. Grace notes are (I guess) a "stylistic flourish", and it's perhaps dangerous to try to find rules to guide matters of taste. I would personally recommend that instead of looking for guidance based on rules, you study the playing of people whose artistic output excites or satisfies you. For me, I tend to lump together grace notes, chord voicings and non-simultaneous chord playing (such as flam), because anyone who is a genius at one of these things generally has their own signature in the other two areas, which to me are all related. So as a keyboard player I listen carefully to players like Larry Knechtel (Bridge over Troubled Water), Rick Wakeman (Morning has Broken), and Paul Griffin (American Pie). These three were all brilliant session musicians, and they effectively arranged, as well as coming up with inspired piano parts for, the songs mentioned. They were all heavily influenced by the Gospel piano styles of their day, from where grace notes and flam had originally come into jazz and rock music. (Wakeman of course played keyboards for "Yes" at the time when they came up with "Roundabout") Billy Powell (Sweet Home Alabama), Nicky Hopkins (Sympathy for the Devil). and Leon Russell (The Letter, with Joe Cocker) and perhaps most of all, Bruce Hornsby (The Way it Is) are others with a rare talent, in my view, for grace notes. Of course these decorations go a lot further back, Bach was reputedly a master (although many such flourishes in Baroque times were not notated), as were Romantic composer/players like Chopin and Liszt. Lastly, I think David's point that singing is the real birthplace of grace notes is one to bear in mind, and great singers continually provide us with a free education as to what works, just as mediocre ones provide plenty of examples of what does not.

@Gottenhimfella Excellent post, mate! Food for thought (and experimentation)...

@@philmckenna5709 Thanks, mate! Always good to hear when a message has reached a slightly wider audience. On rereading what I wrote, I realise I perhaps left out as many iconic early players as I included , but I won't dilute the message further except that I must include two of the first massive influencers in my playing: Billy Preston, who provided so much beneficial inspiration to the Beatles at a time when they were in danger of exhausting their previous influences (Organ on "Let it Be", composed and performed "That's the way God planned it" Also Matthew C Fisher (Whiter Shade of Pale) It's interesting that Billy, too, was immersed in gospel music for his formative years. I don't know about Matthew, but I was able to discover that during his years at Selhurst Grammar school, Mr Spratt gave a course of musical appreciation after the obligatory religious service. Starting with the classics - Bach and Handel, then Mozart and Haydn and so on to Beethoven and the Romantics. When Mr Spratt reached the latter, he made the remark "The rot set in with Beethoven" This might provide at least part of the answer to to where Matthew found his inspiration for the organ parts of "Whiter Shade". Tying back to the nominal reason for these posts (grace notes): the combination of a particularly haunting drawbar setting on the Hammond (four leftmost fully out, remainder fully in, percussion on the second harmonic), and Matthew's perfectly judged semitone grace note up into the chord which opens the intro, makes it instantly recognisable and intensely evocative even to non-musos, even if playback is halted before the chromatic step down in the bass immediately after beat two of bar one. Today's "worship music" seems to me generally rather less inspired and inspiring. I long since ceased to have a dog (or the reverse spelling!) in the fight, as a did as a child in the sixties, but that still does sadden me a little.

You can find pedal notes in every key :)

Make sure to do exercises for your hands and wrists.

All music is an illusion 😂