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SoloingTechniques.com Improvisational DVD for jazz, R&B, gospel piano to learn tricks, licks, runs, riffs, and soloing techniques. This improvisational DVD will take your licks and chops to another level. Learn Gospel, jazz, R&B scales and soloing skills. Urban Soloing Techniques Volume I is an amazing improvisational soloing DVD for gospel, neo soul, jazz, and R&B styles. You are probably sick of playing the same chords and doing the same few runs and tricks that you find so mundane. Well now you will be able to spice up your playing with an arsenal of solos, licks, tricks, runs, riffs, and “phat” improvisational techniques. Urban Soloing Techniques Volume I is slated for the beginner to intermediate keyboard player. We will teach you the basics of soloing as it relates to scales, grace notes, fingering techniques, and ear training. Most importantly, we are giving you all of the important tools that you can use in today’s music, which will keep you contemporary and not “old-school” sounding. Many of the licks and tricks are taken from very popular gospel runs and jazz improvisational riffs that you hear in your favorite jazz and gospel artists. Look no further! This is the DVD you need to FINALLY phatten up your playing and take your chops to a whole other level. Urban Soloing Techniques Volume II is a continuation to our extraordinary Volume I DVD set and is slated for the intermediate player. We teach in a “shed style” manner in which we go crazy with every riff, lick …

Hey, in this video I am going to show you how to play a bit of Jazz. I apologise sincerely for accidently having my piano transposed. I didn’t know it was in the wrong key untill after I recorded the video. I hope the video is still helpful in some way. Ben

This is the third wide screen version of the Piano Chord Tutorials. This one has many new chords for you to learn and some riffs to practice.

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Hey, I’m sure many of you have heard of David Sprunger. He is an online blues piano teacher and owns his own site with some great blues riffs on it. Check it out: www.playpianotoday.com At the beginning of his videos there is always a piano intro and in this intro is this set of riffs. I have “sort of” worked it out and here is my rendition of the riffs in that intro. *Edit* Sorry for the poor camera angle and nervous speaking; I wasn’t very experienced back then! Hope this video helps Ben

Learn to Play Jazz Piano the Funky way! SoloingTechniques.com Improvisational DVD for jazz, R&B, gospel piano to learn tricks, licks, runs, riffs, and soloing techniques. This improvisational DVD will take your licks and chops to another level. Learn Gospel, jazz, R&B scales and soloing skills. Urban Soloing Techniques Volume I is an amazing improvisational soloing DVD for gospel, neo soul, jazz, and R&B styles. You are probably sick of playing the same chords and doing the same few runs and tricks that you find so mundane. Well now you will be able to spice up your playing with an arsenal of solos, licks, tricks, runs, riffs, and “phat” improvisational techniques. Urban Soloing Techniques Volume I is slated for the beginner to intermediate keyboard player. We will teach you the basics of soloing as it relates to scales, grace notes, fingering techniques, and ear training. Most importantly, we are giving you all of the important tools that you can use in today’s music, which will keep you contemporary and not “old-school” sounding. Many of the licks and tricks are taken from very popular gospel runs and jazz improvisational riffs that you hear in your favorite jazz and gospel artists. Look no further! This is the DVD you need to FINALLY phatten up your playing and take your chops to a whole other level. Urban Soloing Techniques Volume II is a continuation to our extraordinary Volume I DVD set and is slated for the intermediate player. We teach in a “shed style” manner in …

Segments from: Leather, Flying Dutchman, Doughnut Song, Cornflake Girl, and Father Lucifer. Happy New Year! The fuzz monster shows up in the audio here and there but not too loudly or frequently, fortunately. He (she?) has a special dislike for my tutorials, and seems to enjoy infesting them more than song performances. I understand it has something to do with radio frequencies near the amp (?) but I am past the age of understanding all of that tech stuff. Maybe in another life. Fortunately, when you play at your piano or keyboard, there will be no fuzz… unless you have an obnoxious friend with a raspy voice wheezing into your ear the whole time. How to Play Famous Tori Amos Riffs Part I: www.youtube.com How to Play Famous Tori Amos Riffs Part II: www.youtube.com Songs included: Leather: www.youtube.com (Spontaneous performance for a friend) Flying Dutchman: www.youtube.com Doughnut Song: www.youtube.com Cornflake Girl: www.youtube.com Father Lucifer: www.youtube.com (Is he Santa Claus in disguise?) Hope everyone’s doing well! -B

Includes: Spark (extended), Cornflake Girl, Lust, Bliss, Take Me with You, Space Dog. For songwriters: A little tidbit of information about Spark… There is only one minor chord in this song and it’s in the chorus. Everything else is Major. How is that possible? It’s one of the most haunting and dark songs ever written! And yet it is almost entirely weaved together with Major chords. Tori employs a very powerful style here using major chords in a sequence that implies a holistic minor identity. What she does is she plays a major chord, for instance E Major, and then follows it with a chord that prominently pronounces the “third” in that major chord’s parallel minor. The note G# distinguishes E Major from its parallel e minor, which uses G natural in its stead. After playing E Major, Tori moves to a setting that uses G natural in a very strong anchoring position, like C Major (where G natural is the fifth) or, as in the bridge, G Major (where it is the root of the chord). Another good example of this is the part of the bridge preceding the climax and mini-climax. Right at, “say you don’t want it,” she moves from A Major to a booming C in the bass, C natural being the third in A Major’s parallel of a minor. Mastery of these techniques is just one of the reasons why Tori is the best pop/rock songwriter living today, in my opinion. So kudos to her for bringing us Spark. Here are some links to covers of the above that may be helpful in tying everything together. Spark …

Many new piano chords and a few riffs. Be sure to watch Piano Chord Tutorials #1 and 2 before watching this. Also check my free website at; www.ezpianochords.com If necessary, just pause the video and practice each new chord as it is shown, or watch it again. The chords shown here that are new for beginners ar DEA and B plus a review of C and F and G chords plus some riffs.

Learn to play harmonica. MUSIC 100 Put the video on pause and read these side-bar notes before you watch. There are two aspects of music that particularly interest us – melody and harmony. In blues, the melody will be played by a lead instrument (for us on a harp) and the harmony (chords) will be played -usually – by a guitar or a keyboard such as a piano or organ. Playing blues has to do with improvising. What you want to avoid when improvising are ’sour notes’ –ie notes that sound discordant! THE FACT IS you can play ANY note ANY TIME! ~ But there is a ‘trick’ to it! There are notes that sound right and some that definitely sound ‘wrong’ ! YOUR EAR TELLS YOU WHICH NOTES ARE HARMONIOUS AND WHICH ARE INHARMONIOUS! HOW TO DEAL WITH SOUR NOTES ~ DAMAGE CONTROL – Trick #1 -ooo- HOW TO PLAY RIFFS THAT ‘FIT’ EACH TIME ~ Trick#2. One of the skills you have to learn ~ is how to cover a mistake. Whenever you play a discordant note, what some call a ‘wrong note’ – you get off it right away! You certainly may use them as stepping stones, meaning when you play it (or them) you just touch them and quickly move to the next note. Another way of saying this is ~ you can use discordant notes as links to bridge one harmonious note to the other. Again, let it be clear: the trick is to not dwell long or linger on the discordant note. In real terms ~ you may use all notes when you play, but discordant notes you use as passing tones. Yes! DO use ‘discordant notes’ – they give your music …