For today’s video, I compare two primary ways that piano learners learn to play their music: lead sheets and sheet music. Lead sheets are succinct summaries of songs. They feature a melody in the treble clef (often including the lyrics if there are any), and chord symbols above. Lead sheets …
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More on Piano Noodling!
Today’s video is a continuation of last week’s introduction to piano noodling, which is a great introduction to piano improvising. In today’s exercise, as with last time, you will keep the left hand simple playing only two chords while the right hand improvises freely in C position. Here are the …
Explore Your Creativity with Piano Noodling
In today’s video I share a simple piano noodling exercise designed to show piano learners how easy it is to start improvising at the piano. You do not have to be an experienced improviser. In fact, this exercise is doable even for beginners! Here are the steps to your first …
Piano Improvisation: An Invitation for Learners
I have a confession. Though I am a highly capable sight reader and enjoy helping my students learn to read music, as a performer I often prefer piano improvisation over reading sheet music. For example, last year I did about a dozen solo piano shows, including a luncheon, a private …