Over my 80+ years, I’ve blundered into a fair amount of what you demonstrate on your channel….and now, I’ve discovered you! What a find! It turns out I have a pretty decent foundation to build on to incorporate some of your enhancements into my playing. I’ve been up most of the night and can’t wait to get started when the household awakens….
As a (long retired) teacher, Headteacher, Performance Management assessor (blah blah) I am extremely impressed with your style, approach, clarity, intelligence. Thanks.
I have been practicing these basic ideas for a week my progress has been slow but I didn't give up and I have begun to get it wow when I play the c maj scale harmonized it gives me such a feeling of balance moving the chords is what took so much time I had to analyze exactly what I was doing moving the inversions now after a week the pay back feels huge in our out of balance world a simple act if playing this harmonized scale can make you feel balanced great lesson
What a wonderful way to make practicing scales enjoyable, while introducing creative ways to build skills for improvisational piano playing. Harmonizing scales with your techniques sounds beautiful. You paint with sound the way an artist paints with color. Thank you!
Adam is the best teacher I have found on the internet, he doesn't leave important parts out and explains everything in detail and properly - can't say the same for many other people doing this. Thank you Adam!😄
I’ve been trying to figure out how to make practicing scale feel more interesting and be more effective at the same time. This is just what I needed. Thank you!
What a cleverest approach to learn for both scales and chords at that same time. 👍🎉 Not boring and sounds lovely so wants to carry on more and more. Thank you so much for sharing this video. I really appreciate it and this is what I am looking for me and my students. 🙏 Thanks Lily
Wow, this is such a revelation..brings together scales, keys, chord progressions, inversions, meaningful bass lines and so on..I am really grateful for this inspiration, thank u Adam 🙏
The keys coach has a talent for teaching.. I don’t ever feel I’ve walked away from a cold dry lesson with piano tips Viewing these lessons is like attending a beautiful concert but knowing how to play it yourself afterwards
I just found this video, having learned the idea from your other similar one which uses a different left hand series of base notes. Brilliant!! Especially for beginner (improvising wannabe!) who would like to be intermediate! How is your project for a new course online going? If it is all like these lessons it will be fantastic for a monthly subscription!
Hi Peter - glad you enjoyed the video! The course is coming on well and aiming for launch in early 2025. Do keep an eye on your emails! I'm likely to be throwing in some bonus live sessions as well - so that will be useful for questions etc. Thanks for the support!
Again. Thanks, man. Even though I know a lot of these concepts is awesome to see him put together in this way. It made me want to stop going to work today and go back home and get on the keys
Outstanding articulation and a great way to make it fun! Very cross-contextual application and creative harmony potential. I love block chord melodies!!
This is an excellent video and you are an excellent piano teacher. There are hundreds of piano teachers on TH-cam with their own unique methods and techniques, but most of them don't take the basics and create really interesting and practical musical variations like you have done here. The left hand movement is something I've never seen before and it's really helpful, thanks!
Wow. I've been practicing the Rule of the Octave, which has helped since I am not musical, never have been. CPE Bach and Handel might have differed on the choice of chords, but this is really nice sounding. This one video gives a pianist a roadmap for months, or years of fodder. Merci beaucoup.
I think people starting out will always be much better served learning scales progressively which is what I did using ABRSM progressive studies or/and the circle of fifths...that way nothing missed!
Seems very useful indeed. Must have knowledge in order to be able to improvise and go deeper into the music and feel it on another level. Can’t wait to practice it. Thanks a lot! You’re amazing. P.s GUYS DO PRACTICE CHORDS IT’S THE BASIS OF EVERYTHING!
I've said it f'years... Learn the I, IV and V in one key and you can do most anything with scales and your ears... and embedding the scales in chords (and inversions) takes care of a lot of theory and technique in the one type of exercise. Very much like this practice regime... It's also useful as, like guitarists, your bread'n'butter function in a group is often to provide rhythm and accompaniment... but many just want to play lead (or solos)... ...and can you say Mike Post, Dave Grusin and others... for how this practice approach sounds? 😁 Fanx! a heap for posting...
I hope you offer a piano camp at some point or perhaps guest teach for a weekend a Finchcocks... I would love to have some focus time to pick this all up. Keep up the great work!
Never ever do I get bored of scales! i do them every day. Have a teacher (4 decades playing and 25 years teaching)... that includes scales in all my lessons. I know D for instance very well 4 octaves. I play a lot of Clementi - D scale in the piece currently learning! Easy now! I learn all Major and Minor..scales in thirds...sixths... Russian scales...and always note what key the music I start to learn is in...play that scale through a few times... before starting. I avoid taking any short cuts and just play my scales! 😊
Loved the video and I am able to get this into my fingers as an exercise. But how do you start loosening up and improvising based on this concept? Looks easy when you do it but would love some more guidance on that part.
Hi Simon, glad you liked the video! Good question! I think it's about moving away from thinking of this as a 'scale', and thinking of it more as a pool of potential chords you can use when you're improvising. I plan on making a video on this at some point... there's a long list on videos I need to make! 😂 Thanks for supporting the channel!
Terrific video, looking forward to trying it out. Pretty ingenious and I'm sure it's harder than you make it look. Like to ask why the midi keys are all yellow? I found it hard to follow, perhaps just because it's new to me, but I really miss the bicolor keys. Helps me see how the chords can be spread across two hands. I'm probably the only person to mention it😊Thanks!
Hi - I chose that bassline because the notes fit with the chords I'm playing in my right hand. Hope that helps! if you're looking for other keys, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/UJsiZ_FqMe8/w-d-xo.html There's a pdf lesson book with all the scales written out in other keys.
Great video. Now how remember my piano lessons from 40+ years ago, the reason for scales was also to learn when and how to tuck the thumb when going up or step over it when going down. That seems to be getting lost a bit with this (beautiful) excercise. Would it be feasable, to play the scale in the right hand "old school" (i.e. the boring way) but put the color in using the left hand playing chords and arpeggios and rhythm and whatnot? That might even be practiced interchangably ...
Firstly I'm really enjoying ur tutorials thanks a lot! I like the sound of this one but I'm have trouble understanding the point. How does this help using the scale and how did u come up with the base line? Apologies if I'm missing something obvious
Hi Liam! So glad you’re enjoying the tutorials! So with this one, it helps using the scale in a harmonic sense - it gets the main chords within a key (I, IV and V) really secure under your fingers. It also helps with practising triads in your right hand as well. The triad shapes are great for improvising and it also helps getting those colourful triads (sus2 and sus4) into your playing. The bass line is actually one taken from a book of harmonised scales for organists(!) - however there are many variations. Let me know if there any other things you’d love a tutorial on. I’m always on the lookout for things people would find useful! Cheers!
This is a bass line that is actually used by organists when harmonising scales - it fits with every note in the scale and creates a bass line that works in opposite directions to the scale note
Greetings Sir 👑 Tutorial is on Point 🎯 Up in this Here Joint 🏡 I'm so glad I found you! So far I watched only (2) of your videos, which will take my piano skills as high as me practicing them will go! All these years! God knew exactly what I needed!🙏 Thank you for this tutorial ❤ Health 🥑 Wealth 💰 and Bliss ✨ #ladyduchess👑
Just found your channel and love your tutorials! I messaged you on IG but for some reason I'm not getting the PDFs - I plugged in my email twice... Thanks in advance man!
When you say an add 9 it looks like a sus2 to my uneducated eye, is the only difference the amount of time you hold? As in sus2 sus4 you typically migrate off pretty quickly?
What is the name of the technique where you press down a key with one finger or thumb, and then while holding it down, you replace that thumb or finger with a different one, freeing up the first one? I see pianists do that all the time but they never teach how to know when to use that technique. I never see classical pianists do that for some reason. Also, why do you call it keys playing instead of piano playing?
Hi Joe 👋 I don’t think it has a name really… I’ve occasionally heard people refer to it as ‘crossover’. Regarding keys vs piano - they’re very similar! Ultimately I’m aiming content towards people who play both acoustic piano as well as keys (Rhodes, Wurly, Synths, Organ). I also prefer calling it keys!
Ah you're right! I only did add9 in this video, but you can actually make some of them sus4 - but I'll look at this in another video further down the line.
This is fantastic, but I'm curious about the baseline's relationship to the scale. Was the baseline developed bc its tones are related to the scale in some hip or harmonic roman numeral degree kind of way? Or some other way?
Hi! Really glad you enjoyed the video. This bass line I actually got from a book for organists strangely... but the bass line is derived from the chords in the right hand and sounds interesting and often moves in 'contrary motion' (one hand moving up, the other moving down). You can certainly have a go at coming up with your own bass line though!
Hi! This is just one particular bass line - that fits with the chords I’m playing in my right hand. However, like with everything, it doesn’t have to be fixed. So try coming up with your own bass lines as well!
Interesting, and likely to cause less annoyance with the family. You do make it look and sound really simple but its not. A video well edited, put together and presented. For me… more practice needed, much more. Liked and subscribed.
OK, I have a complaint. I am a subscriber, however, I am so overwhelmed by your excellent content, it seems that I don’t know where to start, and I’m not getting anything done! Lol.
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Over my 80+ years, I’ve blundered into a fair amount of what you demonstrate on your channel….and now, I’ve discovered you! What a find! It turns out I have a pretty decent foundation to build on to incorporate some of your enhancements into my playing. I’ve been up most of the night and can’t wait to get started when the household awakens….
That's so awesome to hear Peter. So glad you're enjoying the content! Plenty of vids on the channel - do let me know how you get on!
As a (long retired) teacher, Headteacher, Performance Management assessor (blah blah) I am extremely impressed with your style, approach, clarity, intelligence. Thanks.
Ah that's very kind of you, thanks so much!
@@thekeyscoach I should also have added “your cheerful enthusiasm”.
I have been practicing these basic ideas for a week my progress has been slow but I didn't give up and I have begun to get it wow when I play the c maj scale harmonized it gives me such a feeling of balance moving the chords is what took so much time I had to analyze exactly what I was doing moving the inversions now after a week the pay back feels huge in our out of balance world a simple act if playing this harmonized scale can make you feel balanced great lesson
That’s awesome Steven! That’s made my day!
What a wonderful way to make practicing scales enjoyable, while introducing creative ways to build skills for improvisational piano playing. Harmonizing scales with your techniques sounds beautiful. You paint with sound the way an artist paints with color. Thank you!
Thanks Lisa!
I want to download, but I don't because I sight reading so well that I would be relying on the music over feeling it. LOVE THIS- well done!
Adam is the best teacher I have found on the internet, he doesn't leave important parts out and explains everything in detail and properly - can't say the same for many other people doing this. Thank you Adam!😄
Thanks so much Joan - such kind words. Thank you! So glad you're enjoying all the videos.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to make practicing scale feel more interesting and be more effective at the same time. This is just what I needed. Thank you!
Ah thanks so much Helena! Really glad you found it useful! Let me know if there is anything else you'd like to learn!
What a cleverest approach to learn for both scales and chords at that same time. 👍🎉 Not boring and sounds lovely so wants to carry on more and more. Thank you so much for sharing this video. I really appreciate it and this is what I am looking for me and my students. 🙏
Thanks
Lily
Thanks so much Lily!
Love this kind of lesson. I think it really goes a long way to impro! 👍
Thanks Janet!
This is awesome. Like the 17th Century “Rule of the Octave”, but with more modern harmony.
You are easily the best chordal piano teacher I’ve found on TH-cam along with pianote maybe. Thank you so much
Wow, this is such a revelation..brings together scales, keys, chord progressions, inversions, meaningful bass lines and so on..I am really grateful for this inspiration, thank u Adam 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
The keys coach has a talent for teaching.. I don’t ever feel I’ve walked away from a cold dry lesson with piano tips
Viewing these lessons is like attending a beautiful concert but knowing how to play it yourself afterwards
Thank you so much Kristina! That has made my day!!
I’m so glad you’re enjoying the channel! Lots more content to come!
He certainly does have a talent for teaching - great tutorials from this man!!! Thank you Adam!!
I just found this video, having learned the idea from your other similar one which uses a different left hand series of base notes. Brilliant!! Especially for beginner (improvising wannabe!) who would like to be intermediate! How is your project for a new course online going? If it is all like these lessons it will be fantastic for a monthly subscription!
Hi Peter - glad you enjoyed the video! The course is coming on well and aiming for launch in early 2025. Do keep an eye on your emails! I'm likely to be throwing in some bonus live sessions as well - so that will be useful for questions etc. Thanks for the support!
Gosh, If I can just play like you do at 7:30 I would be so happy.
Adam, this video is like a blessing from the Sky, so thank you!!!
You’re welcome!!
Again. Thanks, man. Even though I know a lot of these concepts is awesome to see him put together in this way. It made me want to stop going to work today and go back home and get on the keys
So great to hear that! 😊 Glad you enjoyed the lesson!
Outstanding articulation and a great way to make it fun! Very cross-contextual application and creative harmony potential. I love block chord melodies!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks Ted!
I didn’t know I needed this piece of GOLD Thank you 🎶👍🏻🙏🏽
Great video! Thanks for putting it together!
This is an excellent video and you are an excellent piano teacher. There are hundreds of piano teachers on TH-cam with their own unique methods and techniques, but most of them don't take the basics and create really interesting and practical musical variations like you have done here. The left hand movement is something I've never seen before and it's really helpful, thanks!
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed!
Intermediate player here. Your videos are superb and very instractive. You make difficult things look easier!
Thanks so much! Really glad you enjoyed it and found it useful!
Wow. I've been practicing the Rule of the Octave, which has helped since I am not musical, never have been. CPE Bach and Handel might have differed on the choice of chords, but this is really nice sounding. This one video gives a pianist a roadmap for months, or years of fodder.
Merci beaucoup.
Thanks Lawrence!
I think people starting out will always be much better served learning scales progressively which is what I did using ABRSM progressive studies or/and the circle of fifths...that way nothing missed!
Seems very useful indeed. Must have knowledge in order to be able to improvise and go deeper into the music and feel it on another level. Can’t wait to practice it. Thanks a lot! You’re amazing.
P.s GUYS DO PRACTICE CHORDS IT’S THE BASIS OF EVERYTHING!
Thanks so much! Really glad you enjoyed it - lots more coming soon!
Brilliant lesson, thank you!
You're very welcome!
Wonderful sounds, VERY clear presentation..super good work, sir
Many thanks!
Go so fast! Especially in the improvisation. Thank goodness for the PDF so I can try to understand.
THANKYOU.
What a great way to practice scales , thank you so much for this and the free pdf, 😊
You're very welcome!
Thanks this was a great lesson. I have downloaded your PDF. Thanks.
Awesome, thank you!
I really like your teaching style…
Thank you! 😃
Wow! Great video, more of that, please! 🙂
More to come!
Please more videos like this 🙏🙏
More coming up! What kinds of things are you looking to improve in your playing?
@@thekeyscoach I have started playing piano just 3 month before so I want you to teach how to play chords to sound better and fill at the same time❤
I've said it f'years... Learn the I, IV and V in one key and you can do most anything with scales and your ears... and embedding the scales in chords (and inversions) takes care of a lot of theory and technique in the one type of exercise.
Very much like this practice regime... It's also useful as, like guitarists, your bread'n'butter function in a group is often to provide rhythm and accompaniment... but many just want to play lead (or solos)...
...and can you say Mike Post, Dave Grusin and others... for how this practice approach sounds? 😁
Fanx! a heap for posting...
Very true. Thanks so much for watching! Glad you found it useful!
Adam with a live TH-cam channel? Life has just got better. Great to hear you play. Liked and Subscribed!
Thanks! 🙏
Thank you so much for this invaluable lesson. I just downloaded the pdf.
You are welcome!
Thanks!
I hope you offer a piano camp at some point or perhaps guest teach for a weekend a Finchcocks... I would love to have some focus time to pick this all up. Keep up the great work!
Wow, this is massive. Thank you for sharing this valuable lesson. It has covered what I have been struggling to understand. Sunscribed🎉🎉🎉
Thanks Ray! Glad you enjoyed!
Are you actually telling all these for free? No class or website to sign up to???? No catch no course???? If so Bruh, you out here doing God’s work
I joined his Patreon service with a small sub to start! Also you can send donations…..he is a great help to us learners!
I don't know how to thank you, so I hit the LIKE button and SUBSCRIBED!!!! Well, I do know, so I did!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed!
I like this VDO
Never ever do I get bored of scales! i do them every day. Have a teacher (4 decades playing and 25 years teaching)... that includes scales in all my lessons. I know D for instance very well 4 octaves. I play a lot of Clementi - D scale in the piece currently learning! Easy now! I learn all Major and Minor..scales in thirds...sixths... Russian scales...and always note what key the music I start to learn is in...play that scale through a few times... before starting. I avoid taking any short cuts and just play my scales! 😊
Adam, thank you for this awesome video...Can you harmonize the relative minor scale as well?
It is possible! Good suggestion.
Thanks
Loved the video and I am able to get this into my fingers as an exercise. But how do you start loosening up and improvising based on this concept? Looks easy when you do it but would love some more guidance on that part.
Hi Simon, glad you liked the video! Good question! I think it's about moving away from thinking of this as a 'scale', and thinking of it more as a pool of potential chords you can use when you're improvising. I plan on making a video on this at some point... there's a long list on videos I need to make! 😂 Thanks for supporting the channel!
Great ideas and very practical. Thanks. New sub.
Thanks Ian!
Terrific video, looking forward to trying it out. Pretty ingenious and I'm sure it's harder than you make it look. Like to ask why the midi keys are all yellow? I found it hard to follow, perhaps just because it's new to me, but I really miss the bicolor keys. Helps me see how the chords can be spread across two hands. I'm probably the only person to mention it😊Thanks!
Nice methode
Thanks for this!
My pleasure!
Please make a lesson on ear training .. ❤
Amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice chords!
Valeu!
Thank you!
Can you explain why you chose that base line? If we want to practice another scale besides C, how do we know what base line to play?
Hi - I chose that bassline because the notes fit with the chords I'm playing in my right hand. Hope that helps! if you're looking for other keys, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/UJsiZ_FqMe8/w-d-xo.html
There's a pdf lesson book with all the scales written out in other keys.
Great video. Now how remember my piano lessons from 40+ years ago, the reason for scales was also to learn when and how to tuck the thumb when going up or step over it when going down. That seems to be getting lost a bit with this (beautiful) excercise.
Would it be feasable, to play the scale in the right hand "old school" (i.e. the boring way) but put the color in using the left hand playing chords and arpeggios and rhythm and whatnot? That might even be practiced interchangably ...
Lovely
you are amazing
Firstly I'm really enjoying ur tutorials thanks a lot! I like the sound of this one but I'm have trouble understanding the point. How does this help using the scale and how did u come up with the base line? Apologies if I'm missing something obvious
Hi Liam! So glad you’re enjoying the tutorials!
So with this one, it helps using the scale in a harmonic sense - it gets the main chords within a key (I, IV and V) really secure under your fingers. It also helps with practising triads in your right hand as well.
The triad shapes are great for improvising and it also helps getting those colourful triads (sus2 and sus4) into your playing.
The bass line is actually one taken from a book of harmonised scales for organists(!) - however there are many variations.
Let me know if there any other things you’d love a tutorial on. I’m always on the lookout for things people would find useful! Cheers!
Thanks for the reply! Having another go at it 👍
How did you pick the chords playing down the scale?
Ty for the lesson! I didn't get one moment, how was the bass line was build, what is the logic behind it?
This is a bass line that is actually used by organists when harmonising scales - it fits with every note in the scale and creates a bass line that works in opposite directions to the scale note
@@thekeyscoachcould you use the same left hand coming down with the chords? Yeah- I wondered same thing…the left hand seems so random,
Greetings Sir 👑
Tutorial is on Point 🎯
Up in this Here Joint 🏡
I'm so glad I found you! So far I watched only (2) of your videos, which will take my piano skills as high as me practicing them will go!
All these years! God knew exactly what I needed!🙏
Thank you for this tutorial ❤
Health 🥑 Wealth 💰 and Bliss ✨
#ladyduchess👑
Just found your channel and love your tutorials! I messaged you on IG but for some reason I'm not getting the PDFs - I plugged in my email twice... Thanks in advance man!
Nice Nice
When you say an add 9 it looks like a sus2 to my uneducated eye, is the only difference the amount of time you hold? As in sus2 sus4 you typically migrate off pretty quickly?
What is the name of the technique where you press down a key with one finger or thumb, and then while holding it down, you replace that thumb or finger with a different one, freeing up the first one? I see pianists do that all the time but they never teach how to know when to use that technique. I never see classical pianists do that for some reason. Also, why do you call it keys playing instead of piano playing?
Hi Joe 👋 I don’t think it has a name really… I’ve occasionally heard people refer to it as ‘crossover’. Regarding keys vs piano - they’re very similar! Ultimately I’m aiming content towards people who play both acoustic piano as well as keys (Rhodes, Wurly, Synths, Organ). I also prefer calling it keys!
When did you do sus4? It's in the description. You only did add9.
Ah you're right! I only did add9 in this video, but you can actually make some of them sus4 - but I'll look at this in another video further down the line.
This is fantastic, but I'm curious about the baseline's relationship to the scale. Was the baseline developed bc its tones are related to the scale in some hip or harmonic roman numeral degree kind of way? Or some other way?
Hi! Really glad you enjoyed the video. This bass line I actually got from a book for organists strangely... but the bass line is derived from the chords in the right hand and sounds interesting and often moves in 'contrary motion' (one hand moving up, the other moving down). You can certainly have a go at coming up with your own bass line though!
@@thekeyscoach oh ok thanks my friend, and all the best, you are a truly exceptional teacher, I think you will reach 10x more subscribers soon enough!
When you say choose a bass line, is there a rationale for that bass line? Why did you happen to choose the baseline in the video?
Hi! This is just one particular bass line - that fits with the chords I’m playing in my right hand. However, like with everything, it doesn’t have to be fixed. So try coming up with your own bass lines as well!
Fantanstic😂
May I ask what kind of piano is this? Nord? what version? sounds a bit rich.
It’s a Nord Electro - but I use Ravenscroft 275 rather than the Nord’s in built sounds
J s saunders.
Interesting, and likely to cause less annoyance with the family. You do make it look and sound really simple but its not. A video well edited, put together and presented. For me… more practice needed, much more. Liked and subscribed.
Thanks so much Andrew! The PDF should help break it down even further - let me know how you get on!
When you hit E in the bottom are you clashing with the F chord in right hand?
OK, I have a complaint. I am a subscriber, however, I am so overwhelmed by your excellent content, it seems that I don’t know where to start, and I’m not getting anything done! Lol.
😂 I'll take that as a compliment! Do you think we need playlists for different levels?
@@thekeyscoach That’s a great idea. The problem is that your stratified content will still be overwhelming because all your videos are great! Lol
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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Could you not use the same left hand pattern going back down the scale with the chords?
You could, I think it works nicely to have an alternative method for going downards as well.
@@thekeyscoach more to work on! lol
This is an i termediate version... what about a beginner version
There is actually another version that is aimed more towards beginners: th-cam.com/video/UJsiZ_FqMe8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=viSy-u7f2qoTpxzf
Can't download for some reason. Tested the email and it works ok. here
That’s strange - shoot us a message adam@thekeyscoach.com and we’ll make sure you get the PDF
I can’t work out the right hand. You go over it too fast. Are you using inversions
Yep, they're using inversions of each chord so that the little finger on the right hand moves up the c major scale note by note (I think)
I slowed it down to better follow and oh boy don’t you sound drunk 😊
😂
bro if you can't spell practice right, I'm not gonna learn from you.
I retract my statement, ur from across the pond.
Thanks!
Thanks! Much appreciated! 🙏