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Oo I am LOVING your videos! Thank you for making these. I love creating music and feel like I get stuck in a rut with the chords and progressions I use.
That's potentially very useful feedback, as I'm kind of testing a few new approaches with this tutorial. Which bit in particular was too small, if you don't mind me asking?
Yes, very much so, Dafydd - his "rolling" style (as he calls it) has played a really important role in building the vocabulary of pop piano over the past half century. A really big influence is church music, actually - you can heard loads of hymnal techniques in the suspensions. There's a lovely quote from him about songwriting: "when in doubt, I write a hymn!"
Most people seem to imagine me as a kind of raffish, floppy-haired, square-jawed mashup of Hugh Grant, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig. AND THEY'RE RIGHT! OK, maybe apart from the floppy hair
