Interesting video by Jamal from Gospel Musicians about borrowing from the relative minor to add tension and interest. Nicely demonstrated and with some wonderful chord voicings to analyse and explore!
How to Play Piano – From Unboxing Your New Piano To Understanding the Keyboard!
Wonderful, fun and highly recommended video from my friend Jack Duxbury on your first steps as a beginner piano player. Jack takes a nice approach to fast track you past the theory and get you making nice sounding music as quickly as possible.
Oscar Peterson’s Tricky 4 Bar Break On C Jam Blues
The fabulous and talented Aimee Nolte breaks down some of the incredible riffs played by Oscar Peterson on one of the tunes from a favorite album of mine, Night Train. Aimee gives some fascinating insight and demonstrations of the techniques used by Oscar.
Completely Change Your SOUND with this ONE Idea
Corey demonstrates wonderfully how using inversions can completely transform the sound of your playing. Something I already do myself but I realise there is even more possibilities and options after watching this lesson.
Jack’s Top 3 Hammond Organ Tips & Tricks!
My favorite demo guy, the funny, mega-talented and lovely Jack D shows us some essential tricks on the Hammond organ. Fun trivia fact, we come from the same home town!
How to write Chords and Songs in Minor
Another excellent lesson from Jake who shows us how to build chords and progressions from the minor scale. This is a topic I’m exploring myself to provide more options and colours than what you get from the major scale chords.
Taking A Worship Song From Beginner To Advanced
Yet another lesson from the wonderful Warren. I’ve watched over and over again, replicating what Warren plays on my own piano, There are hundreds of gems in just the first ten minutes, some very tasteful licks, turnarounds, voicings and passing chords. Highly recommended!
How To Use Diminished Chords In Your Progression
Another excellent video from Warren and one of the best lessons you’ll find on YouTube about diminished chords.
Minor 2 5 1 Rootless Voicings & Improv
This is a topic I’m working on myself at the moment, making sure I can nail these minor 2-5-1 in all the keys. This video is very helpful in showing us the most important voicings and why they work.
Introduction to 2-5-1 Passing Chords
One of my new discoveries, Warren is our guide on this fantastic exploration of how to use 2-5-1 progression as passing movement to bring us to the IV and vi chord.