Very interesting discussion from an excellent pianist about how to extract the best tone and expression from your piano.
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Soloing On “SO WHAT”
So What is an essential Miles Davis tune to know with a fabulous Bill Evans minor 7 chord voicing. It’s an example of a modal tune which is a lot of tun and relatively easy to solo over due to the slow pace of the chords. The wonderful Aimee Noite gives you some great pointers about ideas for playing a great improvisation.
How to make SYNTHWAVE PT2
We finish of my Super 8 synthwave track and I’ll share plenty of tips on music production in Ableton Live, arranging, automation, mixing and mastering.
Introducing PIANO INSPIRATION SERIES
My mission is to share the knowledge I’ve learned over 40 years of playing piano, synth and keys. I’ve created my Piano Inspiration Series with the goal of injecting new creative ideas to your playing, improving your technique and music theory knowledge and broadening your repertoire.
The Piano Inspiration Series consists of 19 lessons totaling 6 hours of content. The course is available on the following platforms.
For a complete list of the topics covered so far, please check this post.
Beginners, ready to move on from root position?
Another video I’m working on myself, it goes from very basic concepts to quite advanced in a short time, so some great tips here for everything. Some beautiful playing and the soothing voice of the instructor make it worth the watch!
30 minute SYNTHWAVE challenge with NI SUPER 8
If you are curious about my music production process then this video is for you. We demonstrate the newly .launched Native Instruments SUPER 8 synthesizer by putting together a quick track in a synthwave style.
Woody’s favorite music books
Whilst playing with adding my gear to kit.com I had the idea of putting together a list of my favorite music tuition books that I own and enjoy.
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Money For Nothing on piano is surprisingly fun, here’s how!
Whilst putting together my fun money-themed Patreon promo-video I realized just how much fun it was to play the main riff of Money For Nothing by Dire Straits.
Here’s my breakdown of how to play and enjoy it yourself.
Drop Chords: Your New Harmonic Secret Weapon
Here’s another video on the subject of Drop 2 voicing, a relatively simple but very effective tool to play some very beautiful sounding chord voicing. Make sure to check out the Drop 2 voicing video I shared in my previous post. Definitely a topic I will be practicing myself in the coming months.