Learn 29 Crucial Piano Skills... From One Song 🎹🙌
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Күн бұрынYou can learn a huge amount about piano and music theory by digging into songs. So in this tutorial we look at a song that can teach us a vast amount about different aspects of playing the piano and musical creativity in general - especially in the areas of piano chords, comping, jazz piano style and how to play around with melodies.
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I’ve made a PDF to accompany the tutorial. It includes an outline score for the song, some tips and exercises, plus chord diagrams visualised on to a piano keyboard for those of you who aren’t confident music readers. You can download it (for free!) from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive or Dropbox. Here are the links:
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MS ONEDRIVE: 1drv.ms/b/s!Alnla1DuJXkzg2irC...
DROPBOX: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dgegfe...
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00:00 Why songbooks are amazing for pianists
01:14 “A Song That Even I Can Sing” - piano and vocal
03:12 Music that sounds complex is often simple
03:26 Key, structure, tonal tightropes
04:41 Vamping
05:14 AABA structure
07:23 Melodic engineering
08:49 The mechanics of swing
10:22 Swing with anticipation and triplets
11:37 Switch off the targeting computer, Luke
11:59 Different types of sheet music, inc piano-vocal score and lead sheets
13:21 Managing rhythmic anticipation on the piano
14:28 Beware beat loss!
16:13 Chord symbols and why you shouldn’t obsess about them
17:18 Chord extensions: the basics
19:13 Omitting notes from complex piano chord extensions
19:42 Rootless chord voicings
20:40 Alternative labels for extended chords (feat. G7sus4)
21:46 Tonal ambiguity in complex chords (more interesting than it sounds)
23:19 Non-diatonic chords: the basics
24:33 Chord substitution and cadences
28:46 Non-diatonic chords add colour and variety
30:42 Chromatic mediant modulation
33:01 The circle of fifths and escaping from the B section
33:53 Passing chords for fixing wonky cadences
34:54 Summaring the B section run-out chords
35:29 Pedal tones are glorious
37:14 All about comping on the piano
37:47 Stride comps
39:35 Exploring your own piano comps
41:15 Thinking about the piano’s sustain pedal
41:53 Make MUSIC on the piano, not random plonking about
42:48 Where to find more stuff on piano chords
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@BillHilton Ай бұрын
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@dmcgwhisper5945 Ай бұрын
Ive subscribed 😊
@dmcgwhisper5945 Ай бұрын
I was once asked to take a piano solo in the Beatles, I saw her standing there. We performed the song faster than the record. I had no clue to make it sound exciting like the song deserves. My solo was clunky and uninspired. It was rubbish. How would you approach that solo? My challenge to you Bill if you choose to accept it is to show us this, construct a solo in this song, on this platform 😊 Watching and waiting. Thanks
@heatherjones879 Ай бұрын
I love to do this, dissect songs and go through song books, and learn the chords. Love music theory.
@rickseymour1972 Ай бұрын
To say you're not a natural when I saw and heard what you played at 14/15 yrs old? But THIS video here is just genius. Listen to this guy!
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
Couldn’t have done it without you, Rick! 🫡
@karenconnell3290 Ай бұрын
Bill, this is amazing. Thank you so much. It's going to keep me very busy. PS. You have a very pleasant singing voice
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
Thanks Karen! It was a bit of a hard grind to make, so I really hope it helps you...!
@PianoWeekends.-.68 Ай бұрын
Hi, I’m a passionate jazz piano student who has been studying for a few years with different teachers. You have a really good thing going on here in this video. Your song is well written for the purpose. I just wanted to share that the stress (Or the accent) goes on the shorter 8th note (which comes on the off beat) not the long one(=on beat) if you’d like to play in swing feel. Accentuating the off beat is one of the first things I learned in swing articulation. That’s a huge topic for beginners, and it takes some getting-used-to if you’re accustomed to accentuating the on-beat notes which is the case with the many other styles of music, such as classical, or rock music for example. But if one’s serious about learning jazz, then it’s definitely going to be something essential to look forward to. Good luck 🍀 everyone!
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
This is an excellent point, and while I don't think I'm wrong exactly, I should definitely have made off-beat stress clearer. What I'm saying is that if there are two swung eighths on a single beat, then the former is often slightly stressed relative to the latter; however, when it comes to *whole beats* it's certainly the case that off-beats are stressed as part of swing... and I completely forgot to mention it! Anyway, pinned comment so that hopefully people will see it. Glad you like the song!
@priyansukushwaha5195 Ай бұрын
Best piano channel ❤
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@MartiA1973 Ай бұрын
I have gone from zero musical experience to passable playing entirely on Bill's shorter video-plus-PDF video in under a year (didn't have a proper instrument for the first few months)s so this was a bit of a seven-course meal; but a brilliant one! Taken in stages with the PDF and stopping as soon as the new information got a little overwhelming, then practise and go again. Piano is, IMO, never going to be quick or easy as a mature student but this works and, surely, that's the point.
@stephkirwin1898 Ай бұрын
very fun. as a self taught pianist old time folk rock guitarist this was a good way to visualize a song on the piano. thanks. well explained lesson
@MarkHunterSolo Ай бұрын
Impressive - I wish all the song sheet music which I wasted my money on in the old days had been written properly like this.
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
Thanks Mark! Yes, what I've tried to do is produce something that's best-of-both-worlds in terms of giving plenty of useful information, but at the same time allowing for flexibility in performance. Since this one seems to be popular I might produce some more!
@JD-xo3xz Ай бұрын
Thank you for this great skills video. Cheers!
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
You're very welcome!
@harrisfrankou2368 Ай бұрын
Sounds a clever lesson.
@MrBaixoMamelo Ай бұрын
Bill, thank you for this masterclass!
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
You're really welcome - thanks very much indeed!
@_VOJO Ай бұрын
This piece is far from my current piano skills but it's very interesting to see how professional plays it and explains. Only your channel has this serene feeling, you're a great person, you're like idol for new musicians)). Learning by your lessons and they dope tho
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
Thanks very much for the kind words, and I'm glad you found it interesting!
@rachelsmename6 Ай бұрын
this was an excellent tutorial Bill. I love playing jazz music. Do you have videos on walk ups and walk downs, and also inner voice movements and polychords for jazz? Love to be more familiar with those too. Thank you so much!
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
Thanks Rachel - glad you liked it! I've got this on walk ups and walk downs: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrGSdch_l5u2nn0.html -- though nothing as yet on inner voices and polychords. I might add those to the list...!
@Csharpflat5 Ай бұрын
Great show Bill
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
Thank you!
@dafyddrees2287 Ай бұрын
10:27 My bass guitar teacher told me not to rely just on reading the rhythm mathematically. Apparently it’s important to feel it - not to get bogged down. This seems like it would have been a sacrilege to the classical teachers I had when I was a teenager.
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
I think your bass teacher was dead on, Dafydd, especially for this kind of material. I think it's also true in classical material, though there there's the slightly different challenge of reproducing exactly what's written, maybe with some awkward timings. Bit of a tightrope really!
@lawrencetaylor4101 Ай бұрын
You have convinced me and I bought your books and piano packs, but haven't yet dived in. Why not? You did say it's best to already have some keyboard skills. And I haven't mastered my triads yet. I've finished two method books, and started using Moulin de Ville Opus 100. I've played six pieces, and for fun just played the seventh. But I've been transposing the first six into other keys, much to the delight of my teacher and my concert pianist friend. I think this is helping my keyboard skills and I think it's time to tackle your books.
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
Thank you, Lawrence! Good to hear about your progress, especially with the method books, so do let me know how you get on!
@samuelolugbemi5077 Ай бұрын
Thanks Bill ❤. Love your work
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
You’re really welcome, Samuel!
@velcroman11 Ай бұрын
And the rockets red glare pass over my head. I’ll come back to this in a year or three. 👍
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
Some of it is a bit advanced! Thanks for watching though!
@MartiA1973 Ай бұрын
It does come together. First time I watched it reminded me of wind surf lessons. Going under for the third time, but each re-watch / reread gets' me further.
@dafyddrees2287 Ай бұрын
This is what software people call “reverse engineering” and it’s a good skill to have learning something by taking a working example apart.
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
That's what I'm hoping people will sort of extract from this, actually - not so much the individual bits and bobs I'm pulling out of this individual song (though I hope they'll be useful) but also the general kind of habit of looking at material in this way. Like I say in the intro, it taught me *loads*.
@johnjamatia9188 Ай бұрын
Please suggest a book to start learning jazz standard
@DTWilber Ай бұрын
There are a few different Real Books to choose from, basically just a book of all theses Jazz standards
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
Agreed with @DTWilber - in fact, there are lots, and the editions change all the time, so it's probably worth a visit to a music store to have a look at some. If you don't mind the (relatively high) price, then the Hal Leonard Real Book is kind of the industry standard - it's basically a huge collection of lead sheets.
@swel7586 Ай бұрын
Your piano lesson is good. However, you are going too fast .You must move your fingers at a slower paste and adopt a beginner's mindset. To ensure that others are following and understanding what you're saying, try pausing occasionally during your speech. Good luck.
@MrBaixoMamelo Ай бұрын
You can slow down the video speed in the video settings. Down to a quarter of the original speed. Cheers!
@CrowClouds Ай бұрын
Good luck? He has almost 400k subs
@swel7586 Ай бұрын
@@MrBaixoMamelo It's not about reducing the speed of the videos; rather, it's about adopting an educational style that can work with a range of piano students.
@Taichistretchingspace3479 Ай бұрын
The content in this video is superb from early to late intermediate level …My only Teacher for years and I have taken my 14 year old to grade 4……I am 70…sight read like braille but slow player..Life goes on☮️
@BillHilton Ай бұрын
I'm glad you think it's good, but I'm sorry to hear the speed isn't right for you! The great problem of making KZfaq tutorials is that it's virtually impossible to find a pace that suits everyone: you find it too quick, but I guarantee there will be people out there who find it too slow. So what I have to do is pitch the pace somewhere in the middle, where it seems to suit most people, and then I have to accept the fact it will be too slow for some and too fast for others. Broadly, most people seem to like the speed I adopt, and the complaints about it being too fast or too slow tend to come in roughly equal numbers (!) so I think it's about the best I can do. However, as @MrBaixoMamelo kindly points out, there are things you can do to address the problem. As well as slowing down the speed in tricky sections using the KZfaq speed function, you might find it helps to pause regularly and use the chapters function to revisit sections you've found challenging - this is something I do myself when I'm following KZfaq tutorials in other areas. If you're a beginner, you'll also benefit from continuing to work on your basic skills, and perhaps revisiting this tutorial a few weeks or months down the line, when you're a little more confident with the fundamentals. If you have any specific questions about anything, don't hesitate to ask!
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