Remember to check out my books - How To Really Play The Piano, Seven Studies In Pop Piano and An Introduction To Cocktail Piano! Links here: www.billspianopages.com/how-to-really www.billspianopages.com/cocktail www.billspianopages.com/seven-studies
This is one of the best piano tutorials I've seen on TH-cam - I love your relaxed style. And you've reassured me that it's not a bad idea to break off from my jazz practice to continue my struggle with a Bach fugue! Thank you!
Thanks very much indeed! Absolutely keep breaking off for Bach. I'm also a big fan of interspersing bits of jazz with diversions into my big book of Mozart sonatas - it's the same sort very precise, elegantly engineered, deeply internally logical composition that I think backs up jazz and other improvisatory styles so well. Perhaps that's because both Bach and Mozart were formidable improvisers, and things like the Goldbergs and the French Suites are (as I understand it) essentially written-down improvisations. And there's tonight's musicology lecture done with...!
And thank you for the kind words! Thanks, too, for pitching in on the blues scale debate earlier - often I find other people's comments give a different angle, or hit on a better way of explaining something than I do. It is appreciated!
I just made it up, really. It's a pretty natural and predictable progression, using several features (OK, cliches...) common to many jazz progressions - e.g., major 7th of the root chord to dominant seventh of the sixth (Fmaj7 --> D7 in this instance), when the sixth would naturally be a minor. When you've played and listened to a lot of these tunes, you begin notice the common structures in the progressions!
Very nice thank you! I especially like how you mention the idea of leaving modes alone at the start. Very important in my opinion! It seems like a lot of attempts to teach people jazz get bogged so down in theory they forget the main component of the style which is learning to freely move around within the chord structure with as much freedom as possible. You are doing an excellent job at giving people a good start at feeling their way into jazz!
To be fair to fatcat, it's pretty easy to hit the wrong post/reply button on the YT interface. I've been using it for three years solid and it still trips me up. Cheers for thinking of me, Spoddie - last year Amazon dropped the price at the start of December, so it might be worth waiting a week or so anyway :)
Hi Bill, Drummer/percussionist here who loves hacking away at real book tunes on the piano. I really enjoy your videos, please keep 'em coming. Much thanks from the other side of the pond.
I've been playing piano for almost 20 years, have a degree in piano performance, and have never been taught any jazz techniques. I feel like a complete noob when it comes to jazz, but this video was awesome and full of great ideas. Thanks!
This video really helped me to understand the core elements needed in jazz piano improvisation. While watching the video I just want to go and play the piano, but I also want to keep watching and learning! Both educational and inspirational. Thank you so much for making these available.
I'm glad I found this video. It is just what I was looking for. As new to jazz piano I've learned a lot in these 20 minutes. Sure, I'll recommend this video if anyone asks me about an introduction to jazz piano.
Thanks you very much Bill :) I'm a classical player, and I've been trying improvisation for 2 or 3 weeks, your videos helped me a lot :) You certainly have a gift make tricky things become simple, many thanks ;)
Awesome, Bill! One of the biggest takeaways here for me has been the idea of cross-training... It's one thing to know "what to do", and so much something else to put it into the hands! Thank you again!
There are a few videos around youtube that actually explain modes without the theory. Pretty helpful in having fun instead of getting bogged down by the details.
Hey Bill - I learn't some (basic) classical piano over 25 years ago and recently bought a dgx-230 thinking I would pick it up again..... your videos and tuition have made that whole process so much better now! Cheers!
No problem, Marco - glad it's helped! It actually works pretty well with slightly later material, too - I often hack through Mozart sonatas (very badly...) between sessions of improvisation practice, and find they help, too.
Very good helpful lesson Bill . Thank you , and no rambling here very useful comments you made- for me as I am interested in learning more thoughts on Jazz theory and practice. Please keep on posting and sharing your lessons. Inspiring !!
SO GOOD! I've been playing basic jazz piano for years, after a few simple lessons and then lots of practice with bands. Never really knew what I was doing - I suppose I've probably been doing substitutions and pentatonics just from listening, but never understood how it actually worked. I'll be able to build on this for sure now. Thanks again!
Any major song can be played in any major key (although singers can't always sing in all keys, depending on how high the highest and lowest notes in the tune are), so you should be able to make it work in C if you have to. More broadly, if you're trying to work out that kind of thing, have you thought about some basic lessons, a self-teaching book or an app like Synthesia?
Thank you Bill for a very good explanation of beginners improv which I am hoping to master. I'm 67 and was taught piano conventionally reading music from 8-16 years but was never taught chords even though I guess I was unknowingly playing some of them in the written music. I am now teaching myself chords (boring) and hope to then be able to eventually improvise to some degree without written music in front of me as I have been playing for years. Cheers.
Glad to hear you're getting back into piano, Robert! Even though it's been a long time you'll probably be surprised how much of what you learned 50+ years ago is still there in your muscle memory. Keep plugging away: my dad didn't start lessons until he was 65, with no previous experience, and did well.
Feeling much more confident about soloing now. this really aloud me to move on from repetitive bass lines. trying a lot of different voicing and what not really expanded my ability. thank you.
Great video. I can't recommend checking out this guy's shell chords tutorial enough too. It really helps you get your jazz chord voicings together. Shells, extended/substituted chords and a few scales can get your feet wet in jazz before you descend into the mindbending stuff.
Great vid, and very good balance between playing and explaining. Especially explaining why you do some things is very interesting. I would be very interested to hear more about the left hand and how you can vary with that to make an interesting basis. Keep up the good work!
I am studying and watching your videos. They are really good and easy to understand. I am also studying Jamey Aebersold. Thank you for publishing your great talent. I hope to be more competant at the piano.
I can certainly get a copy dispatched to you, though I've no idea how long it'll take - if you're willing to try, so am I. If it doesn't arrive I'll happily refund the cost. Glad you like the channel!
Your videos are worth watching just to hear you play, you're an amazing musician (plus I love British accents :P) I'm a mandolinist and I've been going over your videos on pentatonic scales for improvisation ideas, but now I can't stop watching your channel. I don't even play the keyboard! Haha keep up the good work, if nothing else your vids have helped me understand chords and improvisation a little better.
Thanks for the videos!! As a guitar player who has recently started learning piano, im finding them really useful! (Also for summersising the video in the description if i want to go over but not watch the whole video again) cheers!
Thanks Bill ! That was a great introduction for me into the seemingly impenetrable world of jazz. Thanks for the sixteen bars. I not arrived, but hey, I've left!
Nice one Bill! This video is exactly what I was looking for: very clear and concise. Also, I very much dig your accent and tea drinking habits! Subscribed!
Just in case he doesn't get to you soon, I'd recommend checking out his videos on hand independence. They're quite good, and you can find tons of other exercises elsewhere on TH-cam as well.
Glad the tutorials are helping, Dick :) I live in Wales these days, but my accent is south Lincolnshire. So sort of Midlands - part of what I call the "duck" belt...
Thanks! Really great video, I often nodded in agreement on things I kind of suspected but never actually understood properly. I've tried another jazz channel on youtube but found it too formalized.
Well said and explained. Exactly the kind of tutorial that I'm looking for. I'm excited because I've finally passed that stage where I simply copied and replicated songs, and I can finally play expand and manipulate chords as if I owned them! Thanks for making good explanations!!! :)
No worries :) What we have is a problem if terminology: I play a bluesy style of jazz, which I (and many others) are happy to define as jazz. You - and, I daresay, many others - do not define it as such, and you have a total right not to do so. The problem is, that's as far as we can go. Who's to say what is and what isn't jazz? But you have a point worth making: I would absolutely encourage you to make your own video response - as I said, I'll be very happy to accept and link it.
ohh for sure, yeah i have a lot of fire spinning, flow props and music videos i need to upload. I just don't have a lot of time right now because I admin a page on Facebook and it takes up a lot of my time and working. I'll get them up there by the end of this summer haha everyone is requesting
Yes, agree. The cross-training idea is great. And it's inspiring me more to continue and never drop my "classical" training with my teacher on my very first years (or mounth actially) of piano :-)
i somewhat agree with the groove piano.... but thats just cause i go to unt... but still bill hilton is not bullshit... hes actually pretty darn good at explaing concepts, and for an advanced player like myself, or even a beginner, its quite useful! i'm actually teaching a student and i think i might use his book :)
Thanks Bill, I appreciate the way you've explained the building blocks of playing jazz, very clear and simple. I'm actually interested in hearing you speak about how to play with a jazz groove after being able to improvise with the 2 hands together. Did you make a video about it?
Glad you like it - thanks! I haven't yet done a tutorial on that specific question - although I'm shortly going to embark on a series of jazz piano for beginners tutorials which will probably address it. However, you might find the first episode in my new Train Your Piano Brain series handy. Head over to my channel page at th-cam.com/users/billhiltonbiz and you should find it at or near the top of my feed :)
That's the clearest explanation about jazz improvisation I get. Thank you Mr Bill! Please could you tell me why A minor pentatonic as we are in F I thought that the relative minor would be D. Is there a rule for choosing A minor over a F major progression ? Hope you get time to give me an answer…
hey bill, i think your videos are amazing and it is crucial for me to mention that they are very helpful and i do enjoy them a lot so keep it up. i have thought about buying your book for more incredible content but i am afraid of it having lots of notes to read and stuff like that. i tried to learn to read music but i did not like it so my question is, what does your book mainly consist of? what exercises does it contain? i would appreciate if you answered but i understand you are busy.
Bill - As a self taught pianist I have learnt much of what I know from seeing you're videos. May I ask you, how long have you been playing ? What age did you start at?? - Keep up the good work!!
Thanks Mark - I'm really glad my stuff has helped you! Well, if you want the raw figures, I'm 43 now and I started when I was 8. So, the total length of time I've been playing piano is 35 years. BUT - and this is a big but - I didn't start learning improvisation skills until I was about 12, and by the time I was 17/18 I was probably 90% as good as I am now. So the really steep learning took place over a period of five years.
Hi Bill, I'm in same situation as gingerpop, and just discovered you. The dark is clearing, hurrah! Like the understandable way you present. Love the accent too - is that Midlands? Dick from Brum
This is a really great lesson for me as a beginner. As you mentioned leave your questions. So my question is: how to play all the cords in all the keys available. Have seen so many videos. But have not found any one explaining that. So to make my question simple: E with four ### what does that mean in question of key and in question of chords? I am in some kind of struggeling.
Hi Bill This one lesson opens doors to inquisitive minds Yes u r explaining How to -- rather should do! Also appreciate direction where to turn to for secrets-if any- how to determine chords to a tune? Yes-I know them all-including all key names /chords etc Ex: Stella by. Star. When sunny gets blue etc....once I know the tune n key -I'm lost as to chords to play (w/out) looking at sheet music n all 7 available chords in key written---Help. Oh yes-someone's derogatory comment directed at you -let it be seen as; Always consider the source n bless them -god's speed-despicable - comments of gratitude Yes I can get close - but never the sweet harmony given by composer Recommendations please
thank you! i am learning piano now and i know scales are important and knowing your chords are important and i know how to derive them in my head but i never understood how knowing them help you improvise but your lesson making it clear i was wondering if you have any tip for improvising with twinkle twinkle little star?
Thanks for putting this up and writing that book. Just bought it and I really like your approach. Lots of books are either to difficult to start with (Mark Levine, great books though!) or assume you just started playing. I had classical courses and semi-solid understanding of music theory but starting improvisation always seemed to difficult to learn on my own. Here in Belgium that would mean going to jazz school and starting from scratch because classical and jazz are different courses. I'll get back to you on my progress. Thanks again and take care! PS: do you also have an epub version? would be better on my tablet I think.
yo Bill have loved your videos... is there one on how to play in Fmajor? I need to learn the basics for "Our love is here to stay" and i believe its played in Fmajor...
Remember to check out my books - How To Really Play The Piano, Seven Studies In Pop Piano and An Introduction To Cocktail Piano! Links here:
www.billspianopages.com/how-to-really
www.billspianopages.com/cocktail
www.billspianopages.com/seven-studies
This is one of the best piano tutorials I've seen on TH-cam - I love your relaxed style. And you've reassured me that it's not a bad idea to break off from my jazz practice to continue my struggle with a Bach fugue! Thank you!
Thanks very much indeed! Absolutely keep breaking off for Bach. I'm also a big fan of interspersing bits of jazz with diversions into my big book of Mozart sonatas - it's the same sort very precise, elegantly engineered, deeply internally logical composition that I think backs up jazz and other improvisatory styles so well. Perhaps that's because both Bach and Mozart were formidable improvisers, and things like the Goldbergs and the French Suites are (as I understand it) essentially written-down improvisations. And there's tonight's musicology lecture done with...!
And thank you for the kind words! Thanks, too, for pitching in on the blues scale debate earlier - often I find other people's comments give a different angle, or hit on a better way of explaining something than I do. It is appreciated!
I just made it up, really. It's a pretty natural and predictable progression, using several features (OK, cliches...) common to many jazz progressions - e.g., major 7th of the root chord to dominant seventh of the sixth (Fmaj7 --> D7 in this instance), when the sixth would naturally be a minor. When you've played and listened to a lot of these tunes, you begin notice the common structures in the progressions!
Very nice thank you! I especially like how you mention the idea of leaving modes alone at the start. Very important in my opinion! It seems like a lot of attempts to teach people jazz get bogged so down in theory they forget the main component of the style which is learning to freely move around within the chord structure with as much freedom as possible. You are doing an excellent job at giving people a good start at feeling their way into jazz!
Bill, you're right this is jazz. Right from the intro it's jazz. Don't let the ignorant people get in your way! You're awesome.
To be fair to fatcat, it's pretty easy to hit the wrong post/reply button on the YT interface. I've been using it for three years solid and it still trips me up.
Cheers for thinking of me, Spoddie - last year Amazon dropped the price at the start of December, so it might be worth waiting a week or so anyway :)
Thanks! I did actually train as a teacher (English) and worked as one for seven years before I started my business. It was useful experience...!
For so long, i been finding an on-line lesson for jazz, and you just earn a new student.
Awesome videos..Hope to learn from you in the future.
Cheers - glad you like it/them! Flat out with work at the mo, but more videos coming soon...
Hi Bill, Drummer/percussionist here who loves hacking away at real book tunes on the piano. I really enjoy your videos, please keep 'em coming. Much thanks from the other side of the pond.
I've been playing piano for almost 20 years, have a degree in piano performance, and have never been taught any jazz techniques. I feel like a complete noob when it comes to jazz, but this video was awesome and full of great ideas. Thanks!
This video really helped me to understand the core elements needed in jazz piano improvisation. While watching the video I just want to go and play the piano, but I also want to keep watching and learning! Both educational and inspirational. Thank you so much for making these available.
I'm glad I found this video. It is just what I was looking for.
As new to jazz piano I've learned a lot in these 20 minutes.
Sure, I'll recommend this video if anyone asks me about an introduction to jazz piano.
Thanks you very much Bill :)
I'm a classical player, and I've been trying improvisation for 2 or 3 weeks, your videos helped me a lot :)
You certainly have a gift make tricky things become simple,
many thanks ;)
i think ive never been so happy lately. your music made me open my mouth for real! you rock
or is it.... you jazz!!
Thanks very much indeed! :)
Thanks - really pleased you like them!
Awesome, Bill! One of the biggest takeaways here for me has been the idea of cross-training... It's one thing to know "what to do", and so much something else to put it into the hands! Thank you again!
There are a few videos around youtube that actually explain modes without the theory. Pretty helpful in having fun instead of getting bogged down by the details.
Hey Bill - I learn't some (basic) classical piano over 25 years ago and recently bought a dgx-230 thinking I would pick it up again..... your videos and tuition have made that whole process so much better now! Cheers!
The cross training with baroque music tip was great! Thanks.
No problem, Marco - glad it's helped! It actually works pretty well with slightly later material, too - I often hack through Mozart sonatas (very badly...) between sessions of improvisation practice, and find they help, too.
try with some chopin and satie hehe
Very good helpful lesson Bill . Thank you , and no rambling here very useful comments you made- for me as I am interested in learning more thoughts on Jazz
theory and practice.
Please keep on posting and sharing your lessons. Inspiring !!
SO GOOD! I've been playing basic jazz piano for years, after a few simple lessons and then lots of practice with bands. Never really knew what I was doing - I suppose I've probably been doing substitutions and pentatonics just from listening, but never understood how it actually worked. I'll be able to build on this for sure now. Thanks again!
Very much appreciated. I've gone through a lot of youtube lessons but yours is very simplified and just the way I'd like to play the piano.
Any major song can be played in any major key (although singers can't always sing in all keys, depending on how high the highest and lowest notes in the tune are), so you should be able to make it work in C if you have to. More broadly, if you're trying to work out that kind of thing, have you thought about some basic lessons, a self-teaching book or an app like Synthesia?
Thank you Bill for a very good explanation of beginners improv which I am hoping to master. I'm 67 and was taught piano conventionally reading music from 8-16 years but was never taught chords even though I guess I was unknowingly playing some of them in the written music. I am now teaching myself chords (boring) and hope to then be able to eventually improvise to some degree without written music in front of me as I have been playing for years. Cheers.
Glad to hear you're getting back into piano, Robert! Even though it's been a long time you'll probably be surprised how much of what you learned 50+ years ago is still there in your muscle memory. Keep plugging away: my dad didn't start lessons until he was 65, with no previous experience, and did well.
Feeling much more confident about soloing now. this really aloud me to move on from repetitive bass lines. trying a lot of different voicing and what not really expanded my ability. thank you.
Live and Let Die , I enjoyed watching your videos. They're wonderful and you're a brilliant musician .
Great video. I can't recommend checking out this guy's shell chords tutorial enough too. It really helps you get your jazz chord voicings together. Shells, extended/substituted chords and a few scales can get your feet wet in jazz before you descend into the mindbending stuff.
EXCELLENT VIDEO Mr Hilton. Ive not seen anything broken down quite like this until now. SUBSCRIBED!
thank you thank you THANK YOU! This has demystified a number of things that I've been stumped on...excellent lesson!
Great vid, and very good balance between playing and explaining. Especially explaining why you do some things is very interesting. I would be very interested to hear more about the left hand and how you can vary with that to make an interesting basis. Keep up the good work!
I am studying and watching your videos. They are really good and easy to understand. I am also studying Jamey Aebersold. Thank you for publishing your great talent. I hope to be more competant at the piano.
thanks man. your videos are very helpful. I watched this before, and never fails to amaze me to watch it again
That's very kind of you, thanks!
VERY helpful, Bill. As an aspiring jazz pianist, this is exactly what I need. Thanks!
I can certainly get a copy dispatched to you, though I've no idea how long it'll take - if you're willing to try, so am I. If it doesn't arrive I'll happily refund the cost. Glad you like the channel!
Your videos are worth watching just to hear you play, you're an amazing musician (plus I love British accents :P) I'm a mandolinist and I've been going over your videos on pentatonic scales for improvisation ideas, but now I can't stop watching your channel. I don't even play the keyboard! Haha keep up the good work, if nothing else your vids have helped me understand chords and improvisation a little better.
Excellent - that means a lot. The waters are deep, dark and murky indeed, but well worth the diving into :)
Cheers! Next couple coming up just as soon as I've cleared this pile of work from my desk.... :)
Excellent teacher and good sound on the piano. Will watch your earlier tutorials. Keep it up.
Thanks for posting this. I am enjoying your lessons and learning a lot from them.
Thanks for the videos!! As a guitar player who has recently started learning piano, im finding them really useful! (Also for summersising the video in the description if i want to go over but not watch the whole video again) cheers!
You are a great teacher (and you play well too). Thank you!
Thanks Bill ! That was a great introduction for me into the seemingly impenetrable world of jazz. Thanks for the sixteen bars. I not arrived, but hey, I've left!
Nice one Bill! This video is exactly what I was looking for: very clear and concise. Also, I very much dig your accent and tea drinking habits! Subscribed!
+Witek Bielski Thanks! Tea: fuel for musicians.
Just in case he doesn't get to you soon, I'd recommend checking out his videos on hand independence. They're quite good, and you can find tons of other exercises elsewhere on TH-cam as well.
Glad the tutorials are helping, Dick :)
I live in Wales these days, but my accent is south Lincolnshire. So sort of Midlands - part of what I call the "duck" belt...
This is genuinely extremely helpful.
Thanks Bill !! I am a guitar player but I thoroughly enjoy that.
Who knows I might start playing the piano ; )
Keep up the good work.
Excellent as always and yes!...more please! Thanks Bill! :)
Thanks very much!
Cool, thanks - another one's uploading right now. Should be about three hours...
Thanks Bill! I'm a guitar player with a good grounding in music theory and am just starting with piano. Your video is really informative.
Thanks! Really great video, I often nodded in agreement on things I kind of suspected but never actually understood properly. I've tried another jazz channel on youtube but found it too formalized.
+Gustl Schnitzelmoser Thanks Gustl - yep, I try to keep things as clear as I can, though it's not alway easy...!
Well said and explained. Exactly the kind of tutorial that I'm looking for. I'm excited because I've finally passed that stage where I simply copied and replicated songs, and I can finally play expand and manipulate chords as if I owned them! Thanks for making good explanations!!! :)
Great video. Thanks for your ideas. They will help me get to the next level, I think.
Enjoyed it thanks.
I made a big order at Amazon recently and forgot to buy your book, again!
No worries :)
What we have is a problem if terminology: I play a bluesy style of jazz, which I (and many others) are happy to define as jazz. You - and, I daresay, many others - do not define it as such, and you have a total right not to do so.
The problem is, that's as far as we can go. Who's to say what is and what isn't jazz? But you have a point worth making: I would absolutely encourage you to make your own video response - as I said, I'll be very happy to accept and link it.
Finally, Thank you, the second person on TH-cam to know what a Dominant 7th actually is! :-)
I'll ask my music teacher at school I can become the eighth haha
Jazz is my top 1 genre to play
Thanks for the sweet tutorial !
Nikki O'Boyle did anyone hear you?
Huh?
Nikki O'Boyle you didn't upload any vids of you playing jazz, so i'm curious.
ohh for sure, yeah i have a lot of fire spinning, flow props and music videos i need to upload. I just don't have a lot of time right now because I admin a page on Facebook and it takes up a lot of my time and working. I'll get them up there by the end of this summer haha everyone is requesting
Nikki O'Boyle ok, i'll sub to your channel and chose "email updates" option.
This video really helps me understanding Jazz improvisation.
Thanks a lot :DD
Just found your channel. Gotta say, superb.
Thanks Andrew - glad you like it!
Yes, agree. The cross-training idea is great. And it's inspiring me more to continue and never drop my "classical" training with my teacher on my very first years (or mounth actially) of piano :-)
Thanks - glad it was useful :)
Oh my. Oh my. You might have changed my whole world.
For the better, I hope.
great teaching Bill. Thanks.
i somewhat agree with the groove piano.... but thats just cause i go to unt... but still bill hilton is not bullshit... hes actually pretty darn good at explaing concepts, and for an advanced player like myself, or even a beginner, its quite useful! i'm actually teaching a student and i think i might use his book :)
Thanks Bill, I appreciate the way you've explained the building blocks of playing jazz, very clear and simple. I'm actually interested in hearing you speak about how to play with a jazz groove after being able to improvise with the 2 hands together. Did you make a video about it?
Glad you like it - thanks!
I haven't yet done a tutorial on that specific question - although I'm shortly going to embark on a series of jazz piano for beginners tutorials which will probably address it. However, you might find the first episode in my new Train Your Piano Brain series handy. Head over to my channel page at th-cam.com/users/billhiltonbiz and you should find it at or near the top of my feed :)
@@BillHilton thank you so much for the tutorial.
That's the clearest explanation about jazz improvisation I get. Thank you Mr Bill!
Please could you tell me why A minor pentatonic as we are in F I thought that the relative minor would be D. Is there a rule for choosing A minor over a F major progression ? Hope you get time to give me an answer…
thanks dude. very nice concepts in jazz theory, harmony and improvisation :)
Wow this is amazing. I'm so hyped for taking Jazz piano classes next year :D
hey bill, i think your videos are amazing and it is crucial for me to mention that they are very helpful and i do enjoy them a lot so keep it up. i have thought about buying your book for more incredible content but i am afraid of it having lots of notes to read and stuff like that. i tried to learn to read music but i did not like it so my question is, what does your book mainly consist of? what exercises does it contain? i would appreciate if you answered but i understand you are busy.
Bill - As a self taught pianist I have learnt much of what I know from seeing you're videos. May I ask you, how long have you been playing ? What age did you start at?? - Keep up the good work!!
Thanks Mark - I'm really glad my stuff has helped you! Well, if you want the raw figures, I'm 43 now and I started when I was 8. So, the total length of time I've been playing piano is 35 years. BUT - and this is a big but - I didn't start learning improvisation skills until I was about 12, and by the time I was 17/18 I was probably 90% as good as I am now. So the really steep learning took place over a period of five years.
great idea for a vid Bill, bravo.
This made it all to easy! Finally!
amazing lesson thank you!
THESE VIDEOS ARE AWESOME!! THANK YOU!!
Great video! Thanks alot! Looking forward to the next...
You rock dude! Keep up the great videos.
thanks Bill, this was very helpful!
Love this . Good job.
thank you!! great tutorial as always.
Hi Bill, I'm in same situation as gingerpop, and just discovered you. The dark is clearing, hurrah! Like the understandable way you present. Love the accent too - is that Midlands?
Dick from Brum
VERY GOOD teacher!!!!THANK YOU!
It is a Nord Piano. Not a Nord Stage 2, but still a pretty great stage piano :)
The Stage 2 has got organ module and synth in addition to the piano...
This is a really great lesson for me as a beginner. As you mentioned leave your questions. So my question is: how to play all the cords in all the keys available. Have seen so many videos. But have not found any one explaining that. So to make my question simple: E with four ### what does that mean in question of key and in question of chords? I am in some kind of struggeling.
Thanks Andreas! I've replied to your question on your other comment :)
Thank you very much! I can't wait to get this progression down. So, how would I go about changing key?
Hi Bill
This one lesson opens doors to inquisitive minds
Yes u r explaining How to -- rather should do!
Also appreciate direction where to turn to for secrets-if any- how to
determine chords to a tune? Yes-I know them all-including all key names /chords etc
Ex: Stella by. Star. When sunny gets blue etc....once I know the tune n key -I'm lost as to chords to play (w/out) looking at sheet music n all 7 available chords in key written---Help. Oh yes-someone's derogatory comment directed at you -let it be seen as; Always consider the source n bless them -god's speed-despicable - comments of gratitude
Yes I can get close - but never the sweet harmony given by composer
Recommendations please
thank you! i am learning piano now and i know scales are important and knowing your chords are important and i know how to derive them in my head but i never understood how knowing them help you improvise but your lesson making it clear i was wondering if you have any tip for improvising with twinkle twinkle little star?
Great adjectives, seriously man
Thanks for putting this up and writing that book. Just bought it and I really like your approach. Lots of books are either to difficult to start with (Mark Levine, great books though!) or assume you just started playing. I had classical courses and semi-solid understanding of music theory but starting improvisation always seemed to difficult to learn on my own. Here in Belgium that would mean going to jazz school and starting from scratch because classical and jazz are different courses.
I'll get back to you on my progress. Thanks again and take care!
PS: do you also have an epub version? would be better on my tablet I think.
good video, simple, clear and effective..
what was the bach piece that you were playing?
mister you are awesome, i really like it and it helped me a lot :) THANKS!!!
Your a great pianist!
yo Bill have loved your videos... is there one on how to play in Fmajor? I need to learn the basics for "Our love is here to stay" and i believe its played in Fmajor...
Great Tutorial! Thank you.
good video, thanks
Hey thanks brohter this is GREAT!
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Hahaha nice one