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+Miro Baks haha I was teaching Clavinet technique on youtube , and all I had was a synth ... some guys smarted off that I dint have a real clav d6 hahahaha- it was just a simple lesson......omg

+Miro Baks Well said friend~

+Miro Baks Thank you! :)

Agreed. It's a potato/potato situation (imagine I said that two different ways). I'm a rank amateur but I know enough to recognize that it can be a sus2 or an add9. Calling a "Transformed 1st" doesn't diminish the value of this video. It's gonna help me for sure.

Sus4 is nice too.

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@@ATOM-tv4pc He was playing an octave and a third. A pretty big hand.

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Yep, should have summarized that from very beginning

Thank god he's dead too. Now i don't even need the video

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Haha yeah setting you up for life is what this video does

Hey, I find here Really beautiful Performance and improvisation *kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oKyGh6V4qbOlgX0.html*

Don't play Imagine though (in church).

Aside from playing with sheet music, please don’t depend on it. Good luck!

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same here. I haven't jammed or improvised so all what i can do is play pieces by myself. My friends and my dad's friends are jamming and I wanna be able to join in.

Just now reading this! Thanks for the comment ❤ so happy to help.

Appreciate your comment my friend. Play on!

+Jared Butler It's the Internet, Jared. Just as it exploded a world of knowledge for everyone to access, it has also magnified and broadcast stupidity. And thanks, nik. Giving up piano lessons in high school, I realize, is one of my life's biggest regrets. But not too late to learn now =)

It is never too late to get back in the saddle. A year from now, you'll think,"where would I have been if I started a year ago?". Let me know if you need any guidance or the like : ]

This is what it is about. Playing creatively, freely and with enjoyment. Glad to help on your journey and thank you for such a kind and thoughtful comment

English isn't my first language so I'm not familiar with terms such as a riff. Would you mind explaining?

Miscellaneous 28 watch Andrew huang’s music theory video and watch rick Beato’s videos they will teach you a lot

Some Stick riff is just usually a small part or passage in a song.

@@ivanrompelberg7235 listen to: Lynard Skynard, "Free Bird", now that's a riff . . .

Losers who are incompetent and can’t force themselves to really try and blame this great tutorial for the failure while the eating bigmacs and laying on the couch (sorry I got a little carried away there lol)

Of course this is a great video and this pianist is also talented as a teacher I haven’t seen any negative comments but whoever is making stupid comments must be ignored they are just haters, sad useless beings who don’t know what to do with their life apart from criticizing others it’s the downside of technology they’re everywhere on the web They even hate themselves

Thank you 1 year later

ImprovPianoTips lol that 1 year later

enjoyed your videos; Julian, especially the glide progressions.

this is genuinely brilliant! little videos like this can improve anyones ability thanku x

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+heymarley88 Why?

+Snabulax Having to explain that suddenly makes me feel very old. This guy is clearly very competent but when he said ' I think John Lennon...right?' Feel so old.....

+Snabulax that's childish

+Philip Jones "This guy accidentally pronounced John Legend's name wrong." If someone said that, would you feel even older?

Philip Jones, he was only joking, surely.

+George Kettlety Thank you for the comment! I'm happy I could share something new for you :)

Hi Asit! I'm sounding didactic but wish you wouldn't say that so to speak. I feel that if one is so moved as you by piano music that you can make great sounds with this amazing instrument because of your sensitivity and ear and what I feel could be an innate talent too. Maybe you're not playing major classical works etc but the piano and its sounds are therapeutic. I really like acoustic pianos more than digital. If you have room where you live maybe first get a small piano, then maybe after a year get a grand piano. Sometimes, I've heard, some people have given their grand pianos away because they are so hard to move and cost a lot to move. I'm 63 and might part with my few material things and hit the road and be a globe trotting darma bum, yet if I were not to do that maybe I'd make an "aircrete" dome off the grid. I'd then have my acoustic piano moved from where I store it with relatives. It's a very nice small "spinnet" and weighs 298 pounds and can and have hired weight lifters to move it as really all they would carry is 149lbs each. Maybe at first you should get a spinnet. Carpe Diem!

carpe diem man! i'm 17 and i enjoyed reading these texts from two 63 year olds. i have many dreams and it's always nice to see an older person who still have nice things ahead! If i were you i would travel the globe, but thats just because im too eager now, at 17 you know! if you really love playing that piano, if you will actually play it, and if you love your city and country and neighborhood, then why not do the other thing? id say, if you havent been travelling much the last few years, go for the adventure man! its never too late to learn or see things!!

Hi Erik! Nice to think what I wrote was enjoyable and special to as you're only 17. That's great you have insight! I wish more did! You have a kind of sensitivity to what you are exposed to and translate that into positives for your own life and that's profound! Thanks too for your advice. I don't have a lot of material things to part with and maybe next spring I'll leave. I'm thinking of buying maybe an old boat cheap and float a few weeks down the Amazon River and stop to buy food in villages on the way, but have enough room for provisions. I think I could buy a boat in Peru maybe for a low cost and just resell it or give it to a needy person. I'll miss piano, but that's the way it is. Maybe in Santiago or Buenos Aires go online and get a on way ticket somewhere cheap, or if I could get on some boat somehow. I know once I'm in Indonesia I want to go on one of those old traditional sailing rigs the natives use and maybe go island to island for a while. I have to go cheap on only $683 a month Social Security. Imagine, vaccinations I'll need can cost $1,000! That can effect my time of departure. We live on a beautiful planet with beautiful people and thanks for your good words and wishes, and for you too! Carpe Diem!

I agree very much! This is such a beautiful planet and one is a fool if one does not understand that. Go for it man! It looks like you have most of it figured out, so why not! There is no other reason for living but to see and experience what you are able to see and experience! Man, people take this life for granted, without trying to experience the world, even though that's what they deep down want! My goals in life are to become a frogman, a marinebiologist and to travel the world many many times.

hI! That's great you are going to seek a niche in the greater design of "modern" life and have a profession. I went to university many years and kept changing my major and ended up working 101 jobs all my life at minimum wage or lower and ruined my back. I think you have many adventures ahead with such a profession. One of my goals was to be an oceanographer. My nephew took a highly rated scuba diving course down in the Keys of Florida and got certification and also with underwater photography. He got a job in Maui in Hawaii working for a scuba diving tourist business there but didn't like their poor safety precautions and quit. He stayed and worked as a security guard and scuba dived, but then returned to US to finish his degree. He then went into Dept of Fisheries or specialized in fish somehow and was assigned for several months to observe fish in a mountain river in Idaho. He was with I think US Fisheries also in Wyoming for several months too. Now he is an "observer" aboard a big floating fish factory in the Bearing Sea off Alaska (at times in high seas it's a dangerous job and had a few close calls with waves washing over the ship deck) and next assignment is off west coast of Europe I think and with US Fisheries. He's had more adventure and paid for it than most do in a lifetime, and all within only 2 yrs after graduating! I didn't focus and sounds like you are, so doing the right thing! I'll only have $683 a month to travel on too. I might decide to live in a place if I like it. I love the sea and also "flight" watching various sea birds in flight, and ships, and sea life in general and will probably stay at times at various sea ports. You have a great plan and staying focused is the key. The sooner you know your major the sooner you get out, although I liked higher education better than high school, yet even in college it can be daunting at times and feeling confined, yet happiness comes from within and one can be happy anywhere, any age. Carpe Diem!

This guy wins^^^

+Joseph Pingel Some of the best musicians in the world who come up with the most beautiful progressions, harmony and melodies you've ever heard know absolutely no theory what so ever.

+Milan Maru, perhaps but I think you might be hard pressed to name five, or if you can do that, convince me that those no-theory musicians are actually telling the truth about what they really know. I believe that Irving Berlin was a natural tunesmith without much need for theoretical knowledge. However, Paul McCartney (who is often cited as not being a theory-wise musician) definitely understands what he's doing. IMO no one can learn to play piano as well as McCartney without understanding music from a higher level. My experience reading, hearing and playing a tremendous amount of music reflects that the best progressions, modulations and melodies are created by composers that are seasoned pros that unmistakably understand the theoretical art form better than kick-around hacks. You might be interested in this blog post (hope this is okay ImprovPianoTips) keyeduppiano.com/simplicity-versus-anti-music/

+Joseph Pingel I always found music theory to be pointless. I know what I want to hear and have no problem finding the right notes with nothing but my ears, no amount of theory will change what sounds good to me.

+DontYaTalkSIlly Maybe not what "sounds" good perhaps but understanding theory in many ways puts a good argument in your head exactly WHY it sounds good. People not formally trained sometimes believe a myth that learning theory will stunt they're already natural abilities but in my experience that's not true. I'm mostly a self-taught, play-by-ear musician that learned quickly that as my play-by-ear skills improved, likewise my ability to read music, memorize it and understand it better improved as well. Music theory is a simple mathematical science that gives order to an infinite universe of musical options. When you understand the science, everything makes a lot more sense.

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If you branch off into a solo, it's supposed to fit in with the original song you're playing.

ImprovPianoTips I like your video, thank you for helping me improving :) Honestly, it's not easy to find a "not complicated" improvisation tutorial video for piano on youtube. Keep doing your work please. God bless you

You're welcome :)! I'm happy I can make things simple to understand - that is always my goal. Take the theory, condense it into patterns and teach away!!!! Thanks for the comment.

thank you for the lesson. i got gf because playing like that

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Years later and he's still here!

Yes, Nikolas is very much alive. He responded me at Facebook. And I planned to learn from him (take his The Everything Package) as he offers one-time-payment and you own all. Most courses are by membership, you are a slave of theirs. Besides that, Nikolas is the only one I found to have 'that mad technique' that I have been looking for nearly all my life. What I don't get is how in the world he could come back to the past (6 years!) just to post a message. Hahahaha!

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Dah-kneww-LOWWWWW! Thank you for the kind words. I'll see you around the gym brotha

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AWESOME! You can do it :)

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Lionel Desir how were you good but at the same couldn't get any good

it's the, eye of the tiger it's the thrill of the fight risin up, to the challenge of our riiivaaals

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also, some questions I've been wanting an answer for a long time: what do you use to add all the extra stuff on the video. ex. the digital piano at the top of the vid, what program would you use for that and does it involve midi?

So true

WOW! What an incredible comment to read. Thank you for taking time to encourage me brother! I do this for a living now full time as of 3 years ago (I had a Civil Engineering Career for 4 years before KZfaq and selling online courses)... What is your end goal with piano? :)

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