Easy way to improvise on the piano!
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- čas přidán 21. 02. 2018
- No wrong notes playing piano! (over a ii7-V7-IMaj7 progression)
• Easy way to improvise ...
Today, Scott is focusing on improvisation by focusing on a often used chord progression that can provide a "pain-free" way to noodle around without any wrong notes.
Scott will be using a ii7-V7-IMaj7 chord progression. We'll be using the key of C. A standard chord contains three notes. We are going to turn these chords into 7th chords by adding a fourth note. Instead of having to jump up and down the piano, Scott makes it easier by moving down an octave and stacking them in a different order. In this way, you barely have to move your hand and simply have to find the notes with your fingers.
Now, with your right hand, Scott shows you how you can move all the way up and down the white notes and how each note can mesh with the chord you are playing with your left hand. Scott then shows how you can progress up and down the scales, use chromatic runs, and more, with keeping the whole idea of improvisation and creativity in mind. You can do it!
The last chord Scott shows you is a nice transition chord called a C sharp diminished chord that helps lead you back into the other chords. Finally, Scott combines everything and shows you how you can use these chords and scales to get creative and improv on your own!
Again, it is known as a ii - V - I (say 2-5-1) progression, and the more you practice - and there is not need for speed or accuracy - the more you can use your brain to make music. That is the focus of Scott's online pianoinalfash.com piano lesson learning environment - focus on learning how to play music, not read music.
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No wrong notes playing piano!
• Easy way to improvise ... - Jak na to + styl
Just what I need! I’m an experienced, classically trained pianist who wants to move beyond the constraints. Thanks for showing me how!!! 🌞🌻🌻🌞
Your videos and course are helping me to reduce my dependence on printed sheet music...and actually PLAY, be playful, on the piano after a lifetime of reading sheet music and being frustrated when I make a mistake. The mistakes disappear when I play this way. And it’s fun. Thank you!!
You are so welcome! Glad things are working out for you and you are having FUN!
Awesome teacher and thank you!
Piano Guy I think your on line course is great, especialy since I can go back to the classes any time I want. I highley recommend it to all. Your CZcams videos are great and give me more to things to practice
Thanks for the nice words! SUPER happy you are having fun playing. That's what it is all about!
Triplets, chords tones, Ii, v, I, and diminished, wow, I understand that! Didn’t get the c# addition, but progress! ❤️
Thank you, Piano Guy. When I was younger, my piano lessons were all about memorizing the notes on a page and playing them back perfectly. I mostly hated it. Learning how to improvise over chord progressions is so freeing. It opens up a new world! I am enjoying piano now and gaining much more musical understanding than when I was just trying to be a perfect copy of somebody else.
I am SO happy to hear that :-)
Just simple! You’re amazing!
Excellent lesson Scott! This is exactly the sort of thing I am looking for as a supplement to the Piano in a Flash course. Nice review of inversions and chord tones. Thank you!
This is so great. Thank you. A really helpful direction to improve for soloing possibilities that I've not known how to begin.
Brilliant Scott, thank you , I can’t wait to crack on with this as an addition to my Piano in a flash course with which I am learning more than I ever have done before
You're SO welcome! Have fun!
You're the best teacher I've ever seen. Thanks
Thx! Glad it helped...
Fantastic video! Thank you for this.
I've been listening to several 2-5-1 Progressions but Scott's approach is the most interesting one to play.
Yes, great job Scott. The target note was my hang up. Thank you for shedding light on that one. I was just randomly use the scale of the chord to try improvising without any fore thought of a target note as you just explained. I tried that target tip tonight and now I’m off and running, it was the missing piece. I’ve been practicing the three chord pattern that you just went over going around the circle 5th and am excited about applying it to all 12 ii V7 1maj7’s.
GREAT TEACHING, MY ANXIETY IS LESSENED, THANK YOU🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
very nice i really learned something in an easy way to understand thanx
Nice job!
Thanks so much. Even though I've done tons of online lessons, I'm just that long-term classical player who needs (needed) a chart to be able to play. Finally, with moves that are really easy for me, my right hand was free to noodle, and after 10 15 minutes of noodling, tunes and motifs and licks began to emerge.
Great news! Glad it helped Brian...
This was great! I'm hoping it will be leading to more jazz stuff, hint hint!
man do i love your heart for music and people wanting to learn. you're a good man with a ton of patience and desire to teach stubborn and hard headed people. I've wanted to learn piano all my life. paper teacher lessons going every week for a half an hour to finally learning michael row your boat a shore. made me frustrated and give up. you've given me new and fresh hope to try again. i play guitar fairly well. Hard to believe i know. Thanks alot.
Thanks so much for the nice words... Glad it helped!
Great lesson! good idea's.
So exciting Scott! Santa brought me Scott’s Favorite Fake Books #1&2 for Christmas and I’ve already learned my very favorite song, Left my heart in San Francisco plus I was able to figure out the intro using your ear training techniques. My family is totally impressed! Now this video will give me a great next step to go it alone without needing sheet music and jazz it up even more. Thank you Scott!!!
Attaboy! Good for you Steve :-)
Sounds like you are cranking right along Steve. Good for you!
Thanks once again, Scott. This video along with the “Wrong Noteless Noodling “ have given me the encouragement to keep going and learning. Now that I am retired I even have time to read and try your PBS materials I bought in 2003!
Attaboy Alan! Good for you... :-)
Very great presentation, you can even use this to practice chord quality exercises. 11th, 9th, 13th, b5, etcs
Great teacher... thank you...
You're welcome!
Amazing, thank you so much
You're welcome!
Thank you for this explanation of basic improv .maybe now I can begin to put some of this other theroy to work and apply some tritone subs and ninths and elevens maybe even sharp and flat extended chords . The theory isn't very useful if it can't be applied to create music. Thanks again I think I might be able to put this to practice
Many thanks for your playing. It was simple and more fun... I am from Indonesia...
Awesome job teaching
Thx for the nice words... :-)
What i like about your videos Scott, is that you get straight into and don't spend the first 2 minutes waffling a load of old shit 😂.
This is excellent way to free your inner senses to find what works to feel and anticipate the harmonic stuff. This is helping so much. I am considering your courses but other factors may impinge? Great teaching Scott. You are giving me long awaited breakthroughs with music. I'm older and was too stuck in trying to trapped in the "other' pathway you mention, ok for classical but can impede others. I've realised I really like playing improvisation way. Like to do it with a bit of jazz too. Close to it here really. Thanks again.
Fantastic! Glad to hear this is helping ... :-)
FUN🎶🎶
I just started your course, I am at the Happy Birthday song. I hope I will get to the point to do what you just showed in this tutorial . For now I am just dreaming..........
C# sounds a bit jazzy. Thanks for the tips! :)
Thank you so much Steve Jobs for awesome Gadgets and piano.
One thing that was overlooked is the differentiation of the '7'. The ii7 and the V7 include the "dominant" 7 whereas the C7 is a major 7 which is 1/2 step above the 'dominant' 7
Took lessons for 6 years when a child and never was taught progression. What do you have that would help. Was classical music reader.
You're pitching me underhand... :-) Check out my online method at pianoinaflash.com You could prob start in Course 3 with no problem...
Yeah! Freaking OUT!!!!!
How do I manage to get my fingers on the keys. I don’t have long figures
So that C# dim is the natural 7th in the Major D scale? I've heard that the diminished 7th the "leading tone", is this an example of it?
Man really great tutorial i've been playing the piano for 10 years but nobody taught me better to improvise than this. But hell you kinda look like steve jobs
Thx! But seeing as Steve Jobs has been dead for many years, I sure hope I'm looking better than him :-) (No disrespect intended...I was a huge Steve Jobs fan)
@@pianoinaflash mate you look dashing
Learn this and perhaps i can play in the shopping mall
I have trouble with small hands
What’s the easiest way to start playing piano?
The video is too rushed, for me, as a beginner.
Your voice is too low n inaudible to follow your lesson but applying own music sense n looking up your fingering on 7th chords I understood.please high up your voice to be audible.