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Online Pop Piano Lessons: Major Minor 3rd in Rock Around the Clock
Pop Piano Lessons: Learning Musicianship and Theory through Playing
Through Online Pop Piano Lessons, you can also learn theory and musicianship on the way. Whilst theory/musicianship are perceived as quite dry, in context they’re really interesting and quite exciting. I love learning while I play. For instance, the difference between a major and minor third in a scale can be quite a mathematical on paper, counting the number of semitones between each note. In reality though, the sound is very different.
Pop Piano Course: The Kodaly Philosophy
As a holistic music teacher, inspired by the Kodaly philosophy and other wonderful musicianship teachers, I believe that we should always move from sound to symbol.
What’s great about Rock Around the Clock is that it uses the major and minor 3rd of the scale. In this example I play in C, which means that E naturals and Ebs occur. Those pertinent observers of you reading this, will also raise the issue of the Blues Scale which contains the minor 3rd (Eb) and the fact that this fits over the F chord as a very colourful 7th. The interpolation of minor/major 3rds of a scale, the blues scale and 7th chords makes for a wealth of colour.
Learn Pop Piano: The Walking Bass
Want to extend this understanding further? Why not? Then the walking bass is the next fantastically exciting addition. The walking bass, adds a sense of drive and jazzy excitement. It allows you to understand triads and extend them to include the 6th and minor 7th too. The result, a more contrapuntal piece with independent hands – melody and bass.
Improv Pop Piano Lessons
How about another step further? The next step would surely be to explore improvising patterns using the blues scale and the major-minor third colourations over the walking bass.
Holistic Music Teaching
The result would be a mature, rounded musician after a journey from a very simple, but truly interesting melody. How much theory and musicianship have you gained on the way? Lots.
Pop Piano Covers
Did you read it in a book or did you hear it, absorb it and understand it? You lived and breathed it! What’s more, you created your own piano cover.
Here’s this lesson in summarised in video format:
Through Online Pop Piano Lessons, you can also learn theory and musicianship on the way. Whilst theory/musicianship are perceived as quite dry, in context t…
Pop Piano Lessons Online Courses
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Improvise Classical Music & Sound Like Mozart 2: Musical Sentence Form
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His compositions have been performed at Princeton University Chapel in New Jersey, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and at Westminster Abbey in London, among other venues. Jason has served on the music ministry at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York and at St. James Episcopal Church in Hartford, Connecticut, and has taught on the faculty at Westminster Choir College. He has a PhD from Manhattan School of Music, a master’s degree from Yale University and an undergraduate degree from Rice University in Houston.3. Extended Chorale Prelude, Early Trios and Fugal Textures.
Make a Tune 2: Sentence Form
This is where the true symphonic magic evolves. You don’t want chorale preludes or fugues? Well, this is definitely the answer for you then! Develop melodies like a late Romantic or early 20th Century composer!
1. What is a Sentence?
2. Beethoven: Piano Sonata Fm.
3. Bocherini: Minuet.
4. Beethoven: Symphony
5. Vierne: Symphony 1, Finale.
6. The I-V Battle - 1st Idea Skeletons.
7. Arpeggios versus Scales.
8. How to construct your own Mini Development.
9. Use of beginning and ends of original phrases to create Mini Developments.
10. Application to Stanford: Engelberg.
11. Jason Roberts Improvisation on Engelberg.
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