First, this video is amazing and i true believe you are an excelent pianist i do a lot of piano improvisation (i'm not a pianist) but i love harmony and analyse When something sounds good there is always an explanation. For instance to go to F, you suggest a C/E, and that is working because : - C is the F's dominante (so it's a V/V write 6/ ̶5̶) - the bass goes from E to F (so a chromatic climb) that's why this chord progression is working. I think the approach on the piano is one step (in your lessons), i think it's really important to explain the Why. You are very good to explain things, i think you shoud give you a try. Wonderfull video, you are amazing Sorry for my english, i'm french :)
Every set of keys will have a chrome atic passing cord or what I call slash cord when you’re reading from a chart… Sometimes it can be difficult transitioning on black keys
So in my lingo a 'mid-point' chord is a triad with the 3rd on the bottom (Handel used it to very good effect). The 'whole step up' is a '7th on the bottom' and a 'whole step down' is a 2nd on the bottom. The first two are inversions (rearrangements of the chordal tones), but the 2nd on the bottom introduces a non chordal tone - the 2nd, which is a kind of suspension and is a very cool voicing.
Thank you so much for this video. I had to leave a comment and let you know how much this one video has helped me get back into the swing of things with some new stuff to add. I play at church and other gigs and have always had trouble nailin my fill in chords. This gave me a few tips that immediately came in handy for me, Thanks again and keep up the good work. I look forward to seeing more of your videos
You take the info you learn from this talented musician and you apply it to your own style of playing, that simply. keep up the good work i learn from you..
You my prefurd teacher are amazingly great, not only playing, but you teach so well, and you explain so well, and you don't go so fast when teaching so that i am able to pickup what you're playing, others go so fast that it is difficult to pick up. I really enjoy you're method.... samuel Tirado.
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ImprovPianoTips Teaching beginner players basic chords at freaking warp speed, instead of at a beginners speed. Glad you're aware and even said viewers might be lost watching this. Youre a terrible teacher. Impossible to follow.
great lessons man! i learned a lot even though I don't understand some of the talking 😂 i really used a lot of your tips in my playing and i saw a lot of improvement in it 😊 keep up the good work!
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ImprovPianoTips could you check my table : imgur.com/oLF8fVp made it basen on this video.. blank spaces would be weird chords, donk know whether to use them.. Also I would like to know know other formulas for transition :) anyway, thx for first reply
I think my brain just exploded. Ok, I'm going to have to watch this a few more times. I do want to thank you for making sense of what I have heard people doing for a while. I'm a guitarist that has had to become a pianist, my lessons in grade school didn't cover any of this!
Ok, so I got how to transition to, for example from A minor to F MAJOR: - Pick a note half step from F, for example F# - Pick a chord where F# is the "midpoint", that would be D major - Transition to F major through D major. Is there a difference in this rule if I want to transition to F MINOR?
Nik, I was learning the bonus tip but the link doesn’t lead to any video. It now says private. Can you please restore the bonus video with the chord transitions that could be used for intros?
good tip, but i would've also explained, that these are secondary dominants with respectively 9 and 3 in the bass and therefore fit very well in between
+chioma uruakpa I think with a bit of training, there's fingers memories, and when you are improvising you're not creating you're using and mixing up what you Know you can play
That's really cool. Beginner vs expert: are you as an expert working out those chords on the fly or just recalling muscle memory? As a beginner should I focus on the theory so I can work out all the various possibilities using those simple rules, or focus on trying to just memorise a few progressions so they come naturally?
idk about him but for me chords are just second nature cos i've seen so many chords. entering my 11th year of piano (yay?), i've seen chords TIME AND TIME again so its sort of a mixture of knowing the notes of a chord and recalling muscle memory, but i'd say its more of knowing the notes of the chords. as a beginner trying to learn chords, i'd recommend doing theory, but incorporating prac (e.g. a good way i liked to practice chords as a beginner was; a. listening to a bunch of major and minor chords; b. not overcomplicating stuff like trying to remember all these different types of chords cos most of your improv comes from your knowledge of basic chords/scales.) definitely most of ur emphasis should be put on theory, no i dont mean sitting down with a piece of paper studying. i mean stuff like formulating triad chords. a good formula for major chords is root note, then TONE TONE (note) SEMITONE TONE (note). tone=move up 2 notes on keyboard (including both black and white, e.g. if i was to add 1 tones to C i would end up on D, add another and i'd end up on E.) semitone = moveup 1 note on keyboard (again including black and white, e.g. if i was to go up a SEMItone from E i would end up on F, then if i add another tone i'm on G, and hey you've just made a C major chord :)
@@karl6160 thanks man! I have a good handle on the theory behind chords, but usually just play in key of C... So I guess first thing would be to kinda muscle memorise the other chords. What really impresses me is how experts play various inversions and then go and do something extra amazing and kinda spread it over the keyboard or combine it with arppegios.... I guess I'm happy with the path I'm on (self teaching), but curious the methods teachers use and if they maybe recommend beginner exersises that encourage thinking of how to voice chords in various ways
@@simonanderson3961 yeah dude self teaching is SO MUCH FUN. if you're struggling with inversions just think about it simply on a keyboard. when you invert a chord you literally just move the note at the bottom of the chord up to the top. for example with c major C E G, you move the C up to the top to create E G C which is the first inversion. to create a second inversion, working with the first inversion of E G C, move the E up to the top and you've got yourself G C E which is the 2nd inversion of C major. theres not much to teach with arpeggios other than your finger placement on the keys which honestly just comes with time and practice. in my experience self teaching and learning from experience is what got me my best performances overall skills learnt, but also don't be too absorbed with it; its always good to learn off of others as well :)
One more question : minute 3:10 of the video you showed the whole step chord and is Dmaj over C. My question is if we are in C maj scale isn't D minor instead of major. It would be great if you could explain how that works !!!!. Thanks for the video.
when i play the whole step up or down chord. how do i know i should use second position of c chord (6:28)? and when u play the mid point chord in E, u use first position right..so do i just try which one sounds better to decide what position to use? thxx
thank you, thank you, thank you. i've been trying to find the name of what you call "passing chords"; they're my favorite kind of chords. i find so much beauty in them. so thank you :)
