Secrets For Playing Pop Music On Piano
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2024
- Are you ready to unlock the secrets how to play your favourite pop songs on the piano? In this tutorial, Tom will show you the essential techniques for mastering pop piano, covering chords, groove, and captivating pop song piano arrangements that will make your playing stand out.
The first fundamental is learning how to play chords on piano and piano chord progressions, which will give you the solid foundation needed to play any pop song with confidence.
Next, we'll explore how to infuse piano grooves into your playing, adding that irresistible rhythm that makes pop music so infectious.
But that's not all! The final and most challenging step is the art of piano arrangements, offering invaluable pop song arrangement tips, including how to play melody with chords on piano, to transform any pop song into a captivating piano rendition.
Throughout the tutorial, we'll apply these techniques to iconic pop songs, including timeless classics like Billy Joel Piano Man, the soulful To Make You Feel My Love, and the legendary Hotel California on piano.
Get ready to unleash your musical creativity and master the art of playing pop music on piano!
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I'm a piano teacher still figuring out how to deal with my students requesting to learn pop songs. This may be the most important video on the subject I have ever seen. Thank you for making this!
@@johnapple6646 I'm so glad you've found this helpful, playing and teaching popular music is definitely a dark art!
This is precisely why I always advocate all piano students, learn your chords (not from written notes, learn the structure) and then train your ear. This is critical. Listen and transpose to your instrument then you are unshackled from the chains of terrible sheet arrangements. A little bit of work and I promise you that you will be able to listen to a song, sit down, figure it out and play it in no time. Your style, your way.
I really think this is the single best video on piano playing I have come across, and I have seen a lot. So much valuable information here. Thanks doesn’t cover it.
Many thanks, I'm delighted to know you've found this helpful!
I have been playing piano for my whole life. You have taught me some great things at age 63. Thank you.
I’m a professionally trained pianist but have wondered my whole life how to approach popular music. This video summed up all of the issues I’ve had with popular sheet music and provided solutions to them. I owe you a subscription to your school! Thank you immensely for taking time to post this and answer my questions!
Dear Paddy. Many thanks for this, I'm so glad you found it useful, It is a matrix isn't it!
That melody in Chopin's style sounded really cool.
I don’t think there is anyone else out there who touches how to create pop music on piano like this. Thank you for this understandable explanation! So good!
nate piano bases his pop arrangements on chords, with the melody mostly sung. it is standard comping for pop back to jazz standard arrangements using cheat sheets which are just chords written down with melody notated
@@uklum yes, I am a big fan of this approach- it makes life much easier to just sing the melody. But so many people want to play the tune on the piano too, and I can understand that. I had to learn these skills for my days when I was a piano bar cocktail pianist!
Thanks for your kind words: we are currently promoting a course which is a cumulation of my life in music education. If you'd like to find out more you are very welcome to email us at tom@contemporaryschoolofpiano.com with the subject line "Complete Musician" and we have some discount vouchers available to our fans across the web. Your support is very much appreciated and valued!
@@contemporaryschoolofpiano At my elementary level having a lead sheet style presentation of a pop song keeps it simple so I can comp with the written chords and attempt to sing the melody through the lyrics. It is a great way for me to gain confidence with finding workable inversions and seeing chord progressions. I can also extend this to using 7 chords and other add chords and then I am able to find more jazz voicings. I find now that I don't get much value from sheet music that doesn't include chords written in. At my level it is hard to see the chords within the sheet music and so I don't understand so well how the song is structured. So , for now, I find most value from comping with chords in the right hand and root,octaves or root, 3rd , 5 in the left.
You mention incorporating melody for cocktail piano and this is interesting and I hope to be doing this soon. The Heavy Piano artist on UA-cam and Spotify produces dense, beautiful solo arrangements of pop songs which are very impressive. It's also great to hear Brad Mehldau interpret Beatles etc in solo style. Thanks for the videos and sharing some of your approaches to teaching piano, it is appreciated.
Berklee College of Music
That was GROOVY. KIller arrangement on Hotel California
I started piano lessons at the age of 9 and wrote my first song the same year. I'm 59 now. It's beyond me how people can play the piano and not play by ear. How can you not learn where those sounds are on that keyboard? I understand I may have a better ear than average but I firmly believe if you practice it, any pianist can train their ear. It opens up SO much more enjoyment.
I'm a bassist and when learning a song by ear I listen until I can sing the bass line in my head. Knowing the chords allows me to have a good idea of the notes that would fit within a given key centre. I learned before the advent of UA-cam so repeated dropping the needle on vinyl or rewinding a cassette was the only way to learn a song without sheet music. Even then the sheet music only had chords & the melody but no bass clef. Ear training is a must.
This is pretty much exactly how i've been teaching piano for many years, and it's amazing how few adults and even kids today, still are not taught these essential skills, so many teachers out there ONLY teaching classical technique, and reading treble and bass clef.... GREAT SKILLS for sure to have, but not as useful for playing contemporary pop music, as one might expect. Thanks for spreading the word.
Amen!!
Brilliant demo, and as a long time arranger keyboard player much more inspiring to me than many piano tutorials have been, to learn/play more piano style
Thank you so much, my search is over.
This a fab video showing how important it is to understand and learn songs from the bottom up.: chords, groove, melody, arrangement. Tom’s video’s are always a great learning tool and inspiring. Thank you.
Thanks for your kind words: we are currently promoting a very ambitious course which is a cumulation of my life in music education. If you'd like to find out more you are very welcome to email us at tom@contemporaryschoolofpiano.com with the subject line "Complete Musician" and we have some discount vouchers available to our fans across the web. Your support is very much appreciated and valued!
Hello, my dear friend! Thanks for sharing this wonderful lesson!🎹🎼🎵🎶💜 Like👍. Very nice! Always be healthy and happy! Have a great day!
Fantastic! You are truly a virtuoso. And your audio sounds great, too! Noticeably improved sound engineering over your earlier stuff. Sound quality deserving of your amazing playing. I have so much to learn. At 62.5, I fear I do not have enough time left to play as beautifully as you (tear rolling down my cheek).
Wow, thank you!
Well I am 72 next birthday in September and I’m still going strong. You have to make the best of the time available. Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring. Enjoy the moment now!
he is not a virtuoso but has an excellent ear and great sense of rhythm.
Lessons from a Real PRO..😍🙏⚡️⚡️💜
Best piano teacher and videos on the web. 👍
Thanks for your kind words: we are currently promoting a very ambitious course which is a cumulation of my life in music education. If you'd like to find out more you are very welcome to email me, with the subject line "Complete Musician" and we have some discount vouchers available to our fans across the web. Your support is very much appreciated and valued!
Thanks. Loved that Classical version of Hotel California. 😂😂 Im inspired now to try that!
Always felt I was lacking because I knew chords but couldn't read music. Your lesson has given me confidence. Thank you.
And extra thanks for the Hotel California chords! I'll be having fun with them today.
Thank God I've found you, Tom! I want to play like this! Got my pack!!! Thanks!
The world gets better because of the people like you. I am amazed ....simply loved it. A treasure for all.
Thanks for your kind words and support!
You are my new go to for piano videos Tom. This is great, giving so many nice options to work on, and good choice of song examples too! Many thanks and keep up the good work.
You're very welcome!
Some real priceless Golden Nuggets of info in this here tutorial!! I learned sooo much.Can't thank you quite enough sir!
You're answering all my queries, just by what your saying, your do right, your are the best. Thank you brother, much love x
Great presentation - one of the very best. Thank you. Look forward to more from you. Houston Texas
Many thanks!
You are the best at teaching holistic piano playing
This is great TY ✌🏼
Thanks for a simple but complete way to approach playing music for the beginner!
I find your lessons so entertaining and engaging. Great job explaining all about groove!
Oh! What a sensational lesson. This has to be one of the best tutorial videos on the Internet and complimented by a really cool teacher.
Excellent lesson exactly what I needed
Excellent video! Exactly what musician should be teaching and explain !
Also fantastic playing!
Thank you
Outstanding piano skills and presentation just witnessed there.
A simple but powerful lesson. Thank you very much.
You're very welcome!
Great video! TY for sharing!
Thanks for explaining pop for me!
Wow. The best thing I have ever seen. All the magic unfolded. As a guitar player coming to piano, this video made me feel at home.
How amazing, thank you!!! ❤
I’m learning chords and inversions for Radioheads’ ‘Creep’…you are so right, it’s very hard to vary it enough to get the ‘groove’. Thank you, you are an excellent teacher; the only one to highlight this important aspect.👍
brilliant piano-playing video. thank you so much.
Beautiful….really good
Awesome insights thanks
So incredible thank you.
Thanks Tom for being so awesome 😊
Thank you for your tutorial on pop piano.❤
I love it.
Thanks for this tutorial Tom. As always simple and straight forward
Kind of opened my eyes and ears, thanks a lot.
fantastic video, very well explained.
This is excellent! I'm trying to get off the page. No easy task. You break it down so well. ❤
Thank you, Tom, for being real...!
Brilliant- thanks !😊
Wow! Hotel California rocked!!!❤
Thanks for your answer…Appreciated
Always a pleasure to watch a master of his craft 👌🎹
Whoo, this was a standout tutorial!! I can use this when writing songs on my keyboard, section by section, on the white keys (transposed to the root). Yeah, that's where I'm at on piano, but I'm loving this.
Thank you for the liberating words of piano wisdom
Thanks for this. Glad the algorithm found your video. You’ve succinctly summed up what I’ve gleaned intuitively over the few years I’ve been dabbling with piano (with no formal training). I will keep an eye on your channel.
Thank you for this information.🎉
WOW! You did it again Tom, Thank you very much for sharing this insight with us. I had no idea, how. At least I can go ahead and establish my groove. Thank you, God Bless. Richard B
Many thanks, Best of Luck with it all!
Wow I love that last part 💕
Thanks for these so useful and great songs too.
It's amazing your lesson about pop songs! Thank you!
Helpful 😊
Very cool lesson, you are a great teacher!
I agree! This is very understandable and doable!! Thank you!!
Brilliant.
Awesome Dear Tom 🎉 THANK you so much Sir 🎉
Very nice to hear that! Wonderful information!
Groovy baby. Yeah.
Excellent Tutorial. I’ve learned more today than weeks ago. Amazing.
Everything your saying is so right. Could I meet more people like you, dude you are ace x
That's why the piano is the easiest and toughest instrument (after the organ, hail to the king) and we love it. Melody and accompaniment.
Fan bloody tastic!
Great explanation. Thank you !
Glad it was helpful!
One of my students sent me a link to this video. Solid stuff. I had the hardest time figuring out how to teach pop music to students, which is funny because playing it is the thing I do best. Even now, you had some explanations that will help me better explain it to my students. Keep up the good work of spreading the groove!
Outstanding, as always! Such timely and relevant advice for all of us scouring the web for pieces and advice. I must learn how to play Hotel California like this. That's my new goal, Tom. Thank you again!!
Its a great chord progression to play with!
Mine too
This guy's great.
you are spot on here - I was classically trained in a conservatoire but assure you the skills I learnt playing in bands as a teenager are every bit as useful in the high school classroom I teach and helping young people form bands etc. It's all about chords, being able to voice the melody at the top by using inversions which gives your left hand freedom to create rhythm through octaves, 5ths and passing notes etc. When you get into playing with vocalists and other musicians your job is then to actually play less and add more to the groove picking out lines in the spaces etc. Great video mate.
xcellent vid mate!
Fantastic, learning the guitar before the internet we had similar issues with notation.
Great video and really helpful to anyone learning the piano and finding the usual songbooks useless more or less. Top notch mate😀 And to add to that is your excellent control of the damper pedal, that is a big part of getting a full sounding piano sound!
Great lesson !! Very practical and useful information! You got a new subscriber 😊Thank you!! 🙏🌹🌹
Oh god this was amazing to watch…
3:20 What I deduced a while ago is putting the melody on the piano is good for a musical solo act, but knowing the chords and for me I play the bass along with it, is good enough to accompany someone who can sing the song.
Or maybe I can play the chords and bass, and try to keep up by la-la-ing or trying to sing
Yes. That's it.
Damn this guy is good! 🎹
pop / Contemporary Music played /Taught ..has long been pretty lacking...Great Video..Cheers!!
That was amazing, thank you ❤. I just subscribed to this channel.
Welcome!
This video resonated with me on so many levels. Most of all it now made me feel more confident because you clarified why certain songs don’t work as piano solos. Many many thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent as usual! Thanks a lot Tom, Inga from Germany
Many thanks Inga
Thank you so much for making videos like this. You are teaching us so much! I’m going to buy the Groove package.
You are so welcome!
You will Love the Groove pack, lot of fun and very enlightening.
Best teacher in London
This is a great video! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Good stuff. There was a point when I was young and trying to get out from under all that classical training which I wasn't very good at. It was a struggle to transition to pop/rock. This video would have saved me a number of years of playing blind.
awsome video im a drummer on my journey to learn piano. sent for my resource pack.
very crystal clear tutorial, i hope i can see the next tutorial, can we talk how laufey tranform jazz song to a pop generation that so amazing
😅😅😅great teacher always
Love the Liszt pose!
I've just started relearning to play the piano. I agree 100% that learning chords is the best first step to learning pop songs. I can't believe how quickly I am able to play. I also prefer using lead sheets. You are an excellent teacher and you've just earned a new subscriber 👍 Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent 🎹
Welcome!!!
I’ve immediately subscribed. A no bullshit, instructive lesson. Thank you! (Not that I can do much of it yet…)
It all starts with chords! Then you are 60 percent there!