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19 Must-Know Tips for Beginner Players (Intermediate, Too!)
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Piano Lessons for Beginners - 19 Must-Know Tips for Beginner Players (Intermediate, Too!)

Master the Keys: Unleash Your Inner Pianist with Beginners' Chords to Beautiful Melodies!

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What you'll learn

Understand and play basic and complex piano chords effectively
Apply interesting chord accompaniment patterns in various musical settings
Utilize techniques to enhance left-hand piano playing skills
Compose unique piano ballads and melodies using borrowed chords and voice leading

This course includes

  • 4.3 hours of video
  • Certificate of completion
  • Access on mobile and TV

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0:00 Introduction 0:45 Tip 1 (Extensions) 1:39 Tip 2 (Famous chords) 3:17 Tip 3 (Add motion) 4:08 Tip 4 (Choose the right register) 4:54 Tip 5 (Arpeggiation and muddiness) 5:55 Tip 6 (Chromatic planing) 7:40 Tip 7 (Open vs Closed voicings) 8:55 Tip 8 (Avoid notes) 10:23 Tip 9 (Minor pentatonic) 12:26 Tip 10 (Play out of scale) 14:26 Tip 11 (Don't overplay) 16:05 Tip 12 (7-1-5 and 1-2-5-7 voicings) 18:59 Tip 13 (Voice leading) 20:08 Tip 14 (Add the 2nd) 21:15 Tip 15 (Add the 4th) 22:04 Tip 16 (Thumb "cheat") 23:22 Tip 17 (6/9 chords) 24:52 Tip 18 (Omit the root) 25:36 Tip 19 (Omit the 5th) 27:01 Concluding Remarks So here's a video with a bunch of quick tips and tricks to step up your piano and keyboard playing. I don't go into detail on any one tip which lets me cram a bunch of them in there, hoping they will inspire you! 19 is a funny number - it should have been 30 initially, but the video started getting too long and I had to stop. If you guys like it there will be a part two, and I can already now tell you what it's going to be called: "11 More Must-Know Tips", unless I come up with more tips, which is very likely to happen.

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