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Play Piano for Hours

This course is designed to show you how to create your own songs and improvisations allowing you to just "sit and play" for hours. Equal parts composition and improvisation, this has been a very popular course!

10 Lessons

8hr 23min Total

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Play Piano For Hours #1

This lesson shows you how to break up simple triads to create a more advanced arrangement.

Play Piano For Hours #2

Building off of lesson 1, now learn to substitute chords to create a more robust chord progression. We will also use Jingle Bells as a springboard.

Play Piano For Hours #3

In this lesson, slash chords and chord tensions are introduced which change the bass motion of the song and create a more sophisticated “spicy” sound.

Play Piano For Hours #4

In lesson 4 we will add more rhythm to the chord progression to create a better sense of flow between chords.

Play Piano For Hours #5

Now we move into minor and you’ll learn different ways to use relative and parallel minor in your compositions.

Play Piano For Hours #6

In this lesson you’ll discover how to add emotion into your music and see me ‘bare my soul’ more than any other lesson.

Play Piano For Hours #7

In this lesson we will move toward a jazz style and you’ll learn how to create chord structures that sound more open.

Play Piano For Hours #8

I’ll teach you my original song entitled Gratitude and explain how it was composed.

Play Piano For Hours #9

In this lesson you’ll learn the arrangement for the song Gratitude and I’ll answer student questions.

Play Piano For Hours #9 Student Questions

In this lesson I'll answer questions I received from students for this course.

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