I found this video very helpful. I should point out one small mistake, just in case anyone is feeling confused by it. 😬 When you explain the second position (at 6:46), your right hand is voicing the 5th, 3rd, and 5th intervals, but any other time you play this second position (like 7:25, 7:49, 8:33...), your right hand is actually voicing a 5th, 1st, and 5th. Both structures sound nice, but I wanted to make sure other viewers understand the discrepancy.
Got my self a good Roland workstation for my 60th Birthday. I can’t play at all but I am an average guitarist and tenor sax player. I want to have some fun writing songs and making some accompaniment for my other instruments. I used to be able to put my hands on a keyboard and spread my fingers 1 3 and 5 and experiment from there (trying to find add 9"s). Finding your channel has been inspirational. You are so inspiring. You are a gifted teacher. I have viewed guitar and sax tuition on the web for many years but I have never seen anyone as encouraging and as inspiring as you. You create such a relaxed atmosphere in your videos that encourages beginners to give things a try that might seem intimidating otherwise. And your constant emphasis that we are here to have fun whilst learning in a relaxed way, is so important and often missed by 90% of other tutors on the Web. I just wanted to thank you for the joy that you are giving me. I am only a couple of weeks playing at the moment but I am so excited about working through all your tutorials. Thank you so much. You will give me years of pleasure.
I'm in love with this video. It's just exactly what I want to learn. Beautiful contemporary music, kinda melancholic and simply wonderful. These chord changes with the 3rd at the top, how could you not love them?! And all of that just within the plain old C/AMin scale. Thank you!
Haha, glad you liked it David. I do love these 'relatively simple' methods of creating music. That third at the top is a good stepping stone into melody writing. You can almost just hear the melody when you change chords and it becomes a game to simply fill in the notes. Thanks for the kind words. Really appreciate it!
Ok that was just WOW 😲. Such a little thing, such a big impact. I’m gonna have a look at this during my practice sessions. 👍🏻 Thank you so much for these videos.
You're very welcome. I love coming up with these relatively simple techniques to get massive great sounding and feeling results. stick around and check out some other vids.
Learning piano is one of the most difficult challenges i have ever had, thought not yet there, but i have seen the Green light towards success. Thanks for your undeing efforts to teach adults like me.
Just listened to A Star is Born, which was great. So I thought I would look again at Instant Epicness. And I thought I would give you another LIKE here. It has boosted me again to play the chords, I just wish I could sound as good as you.
It´s the best Inspiration, seeing you having such fun playing piano. Don´t know any other piano teacher who is able to be as focussed on the keys as you are. Thank you for giving me so much help for my left Hand Accompaniment. Now I´ll go brew myself a cup of coffee... :)
Hey Josef, thank you so much for all the work you put into your videos! They always sounds great and are very inspirational for me. Keep going on and have a great day Greetings from Germany Martin
Wow! Brilliant! What ever you do in the future, I would like to see it numbered. I really relate to numbers for sequencing or for difficulty. Numbers make it easier for me to decide which video I want to watch. Thank you so much for all your help. M
Hey Melissa, I quite like that idea. I have actually made playlists on various topics and difficulty levels. Feel free to check those out. ua-cam.com/channels/2VELs7Mfz81cZxC9A6-JOg.htmlplaylists
Hi Joe, just to let you know that here in Rio de Janeiro, very far away, I enjoy your magnificente video classes regularly. Many thanks for putting time, effort and talent at the service of piano students around the world.
Great stuff Carol. Have a go for yourself. Get used to how those chords are spread and feel with both of your hands, then just move it around in the key. You'll be amazed how awesome you can sound.
OMG! Thanks so much for showing that! As you might saw on my other comment, I love making film music and this is just what I needed! Thanks a ton man! It's just important having these different ways of playing the chords. Thanks again man!
This one I shall learn just now. Very melodic and epic pattern ! I'm going to impress my wife with this one ! Thanks Josef ! You are an ekselent piano teacher. And I love the sound of your Fantom too !
Yeah, I liked this video. Some of my 'in my humble opinion' better videos down get the massive amounts of views, but they are there for those to explore my channel. Also 'Ekselent'... I like the 1920's villain vibe :) Don't forget that what your hearing is not my fantom. Its quantum leap pianos virtual instrument.
I like the idea, not 'mary had a little lamb though'... She needs blasting along with her lamb into the stratosphere ;). Joking aside... check out my latest video on melody, you might like it - ua-cam.com/video/plv5qfdhk5E/v-deo.html
Request: Ambient Piano (This video may be all we need to make lots of ambient music, but what do I know. Could you give further ideas for beautiful, spacey, nice, repetitive, dreamy, pensive, slow, arpeggios/chords?)
Two thumbs up👍👍 great going.... Pls make a video on how to find the chords of any song and play along... And how to play music when someone is singing... That'll be really helpful..
Yup. I have a premium product planned on playing music by ear. I will explore it in some youtube vids though. You seen this video about playing while singing? ua-cam.com/video/eF04fwsvJnA/v-deo.html
Garima Gupta - paste any UA-cam songs url into Chordify.net and it will show you the chords, although it has some errors, a little knowledge will let you make the needed fixes...
I tried this for the first time today, Love it and will keep practising until I get it right. Issue I have is that stretch to the right hand little finger note while keeping the other notes accurate! particularly at 6:57 playing the G&E with right hand at same time. Is this normal and just comes with practice?
Literally just bought a piano having played guitar for years. Starting from scratch and your UA-cam channel is absolutely brilliant, fantastic teaching method and awesome lessons for any beginner to pick up having never played piano before. Going to really enjoy learning with your videos and content.
How did I miss this tutorial? It’s great. Can you do a tutorial on rhythm - as you keep the rhythm going - I struggle with this. I’m sure you’ve probably done one already, if so could you head me in the right direction, please? By the way, I’ve passed your site on to a lot of my friends who are just beginning, they think you are genius too.
Jozef, greetings from Poland. Thanks to you, I finally managed to make some progress in learning to play the piano. It is not easy to start at the age of 36, but your advice helps a lot. Keep it up!!! P.S. Your name looks like it has Polish origin. Józef Sikora :)
Loved this video I can get the C but can't reach that E, stretch as i might, with my right hand my little finger was broken years ago and hooks in just a bit to much :(
✅ 🎹 Check out my BEGINNER ‘Sit & Play Piano’ course 👉 creativepianoacademy.com/sitplaypiano Any requests for up-coming piano tutorials? Let me have em' right here!
Sometimes we put MIDI of a melody on a Piano Roll in software. But when I want to put the chords, not able to perfectly match the emotion of the song ( I mean not able to identify the Chords ). Want tutorial on that please. 😄😃
Sometimes, people move out of the scale, like in a chord progression or maybe like at a climax, which completely changes the mood of the song. The problem is that when I try to do it, it sounds horrible or if I do catch on some good moves, then I am not able to build it up. Could you kindly take something like that. P.S. Could kindly tell what's happening over in this video at around 1:54 to 1:57. You may also get an idea what I was talking about if you listen to the full sing. ua-cam.com/video/m463AgR-IJ0/v-deo.html
Love that song you linked. Looks a lot like the 'code studio' setup. I did a cover of 'madari' if you havent seen it - ua-cam.com/video/B96u0o9_Nks/v-deo.html So basically that 'transition' chord you are talking about is a diminished chord (at least thats what my ears tell me). Its a whole other world to explain and more than I can do in a comment. Basically, we can use it to link 2 chords or even move between keys.
Joe, another great video, love the ideas you present. Curious if you've seen Scaler by PluginBoutique? Amazing tool that not only has huge libraries of chords and flexibility in how it voices them, including artist chord sets, but it also will detect input notes and/or chords and tell you the applicable scales and modes, and rank them depending on the number of matching notes... might inspire you for some add'l chord ideas - not that you need them! Thanks again!
That software looks really good. Fairly cheap as well. I'm always keep to try out stuff like this because you never know enough. 'proper' music theory is a bit of a weakness of mine so it's probably a great learning tool. I'll check it out!
At 15:00 it was so satisfying 😍😍 !! And you promise me that you'll reply to my comment even when you'll have millions of Subscribers on this Channel in future. 😃
Haha, millions and millions, lol. Its growing steady and I like the engagement with you guys. I've seen some channels with millions of subscribers and only a few thousand views on their vids.
Ron Domansky, wow this is beautiful. Thanks alot! And this was the cover that i kept listening to. Here's the link : ua-cam.com/video/0rFY35ZSV2w/v-deo.html
Thanks jambalaya for sharing the cover version of "Even If" you have been listening to. I had not heard this one before. Another Great Job of this Beautiful Song for me to add to my Play List. These "Two" are the tops I have heard.
I think I got it right away. So you just play for example a C Major Cord, but skipped the 3th note and play the route note again but 1 octave higher and on the right hand you skipped the 5th note to play the missing 3th as chord and the same thing with the octave. Something like that xD Did I got it before watching the video?
Hey Sukesh. I'm not sure what you mean. Both those sets of notes are the E minor chord. The beauty about open chords like this is that you can spread them out in whatever way you want. This can create slightly different variations. So your version is simply a different way to play it and will sound great.
thank you i am working on this its great , its a three days long weekend and i am spending most of time with my piano thank you for this study material
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I found this video very helpful. I should point out one small mistake, just in case anyone is feeling confused by it. 😬
When you explain the second position (at 6:46), your right hand is voicing the 5th, 3rd, and 5th intervals, but any other time you play this second position (like 7:25, 7:49, 8:33...), your right hand is actually voicing a 5th, 1st, and 5th. Both structures sound nice, but I wanted to make sure other viewers understand the discrepancy.
When those chords were played, my mind : "A broken heart is all that's left". !!! Good stuff brother :) ❤
Got my self a good Roland workstation for my 60th Birthday. I can’t play at all but I am an average guitarist and tenor sax player. I want to have some fun writing songs and making some accompaniment for my other instruments. I used to be able to put my hands on a keyboard and spread my fingers 1 3 and 5 and experiment from there (trying to find add 9"s). Finding your channel has been inspirational. You are so inspiring. You are a gifted teacher. I have viewed guitar and sax tuition on the web for many years but I have never seen anyone as encouraging and as inspiring as you.
You create such a relaxed atmosphere in your videos that encourages beginners to give things a try that might seem intimidating otherwise. And your constant emphasis that we are here to have fun whilst learning in a relaxed way, is so important and often missed by 90% of other tutors on the Web. I just wanted to thank you for the joy that you are giving me. I am only a couple of weeks playing at the moment but I am so excited about working through all your tutorials. Thank you so much. You will give me years of pleasure.
14.53 .potential moment where the melody comes from . you have shown the simple straighforward method.great
Very masterfully executed, you're the master!!!!!!
it seems so much easier now than the first time i saw it, im gonna try this time
I'm in love with this video. It's just exactly what I want to learn. Beautiful contemporary music, kinda melancholic and simply wonderful. These chord changes with the 3rd at the top, how could you not love them?! And all of that just within the plain old C/AMin scale. Thank you!
Haha, glad you liked it David. I do love these 'relatively simple' methods of creating music. That third at the top is a good stepping stone into melody writing. You can almost just hear the melody when you change chords and it becomes a game to simply fill in the notes. Thanks for the kind words. Really appreciate it!
Ok that was just WOW 😲. Such a little thing, such a big impact. I’m gonna have a look at this during my practice sessions. 👍🏻
Thank you so much for these videos.
You're very welcome. I love coming up with these relatively simple techniques to get massive great sounding and feeling results. stick around and check out some other vids.
This video is a real eye opener
Tried and had lot of fun once I discovered the pattern, great lesson. Thanks a lot.
Sounds amazing. I’ve been practicing these today.
Wow ! Magnifique ! J'adore ce genre d'accords !
one of the most straightforward video but so nice to play!!! THANKS!
Learning piano is one of the most difficult challenges i have ever had, thought not yet there, but i have seen the Green light towards success.
Thanks for your undeing efforts to teach adults like me.
It is still one of the best piano lessons I have ever seen, so simple, but so beautilful ,use it every time, I am kind of stuck but in a good way..
Beautiful! Thank you so much; love it!!
THIS IS EPIC🙏🏽 Will definitely apply it in my playing😇
Glad you liked it Terese!
You are amazing Joe... ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks Richie. you too!
This is the greatest piano lesson I ever had.
Bravo, m8! Cheers!
Just listened to A Star is Born, which was great. So I thought I would look again at Instant Epicness. And I thought I would give you another LIKE here. It has boosted me again to play the chords, I just wish I could sound as good as you.
Great stuff Carol. Yeah, this video never got a lot of attention but Its one of my favourites.
Thank you for making these videos! I'm going to be so much better by the end of this quarantine.
Yep. On bright side at least we have some time 👍
Love this lesson Joe, feels complicated and sounds beautiful. So.. I’m on it. Hope all is well.
It´s the best Inspiration, seeing you having such fun playing piano. Don´t know any other piano teacher who is able to be as focussed on the keys as you are.
Thank you for giving me so much help for my left Hand Accompaniment.
Now I´ll go brew myself a cup of coffee... :)
Hey Josef, thank you so much for all the work you put into your videos! They always sounds great and are very inspirational for me.
Keep going on and have a great day
Greetings from Germany
Martin
You're very welcome Martin. I hope you get loads out of them!
Hi Josef, awesome tutorial. Very much appreciate your piano lessons. Looking forward for your next lessons.
Good stuff! Glad you like them.
Can’t wait to practice these. Looks crazy with all the notes but should be fun 😁
Its beautiful and so helpful. Thank you
Wow! Brilliant! What ever you do in the future, I would like to see it numbered. I really relate to numbers for sequencing or for difficulty. Numbers make it easier for me to decide which video I want to watch. Thank you so much for all your help. M
Hey Melissa, I quite like that idea. I have actually made playlists on various topics and difficulty levels. Feel free to check those out. ua-cam.com/channels/2VELs7Mfz81cZxC9A6-JOg.htmlplaylists
Hi Joe, just to let you know that here in Rio de Janeiro, very far away, I enjoy your magnificente video classes regularly. Many thanks for putting time, effort and talent at the service of piano students around the world.
Thats great to hear Decio. You're very welcome.
Love this!
Thank's for the tips, i love playing freestyle
Best way to get creative I think!
Love the music of the practise, makes it wonderful to listen to.
Great stuff Carol. Have a go for yourself. Get used to how those chords are spread and feel with both of your hands, then just move it around in the key. You'll be amazed how awesome you can sound.
You are just awesome! Thank you so much Love from nepal ❤
Lol .. I’ve just started the 3 part vid .. can’t wait to do this one !!
Thanks a lot buddy !!
Sounds amazing !
You're very welcome. Good luck. Let me know how you get on!
Sonority. "When emphasizing the"-you wanna say-"sonority."
Words are good.
Great video! Of you wanted to apply this to 7ths and 9ths, which notes do you recommend doubling? I guess the 3 and 7? Thanks.
This is great for beginners like me,,,,,does not look hard but it is a challenge.
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Your tutorials are brilliant bru :)
Thanks. hope you get something out of them!
OMG! Thanks so much for showing that! As you might saw on my other comment, I love making film music and this is just what I needed! Thanks a ton man! It's just important having these different ways of playing the chords. Thanks again man!
Yeah, and imagine then orchestrating them out. Instantly sounds big and epic. Horns and strings my friend ;)
Haha indeed! :D Thanks!
Awesome! Epic! :)
Many thanks!
Your welcome Konstantin. Again!
This one I shall learn just now. Very melodic and epic pattern ! I'm going to impress my wife with this one ! Thanks Josef ! You are an ekselent piano teacher. And I love the sound of your Fantom too !
Yeah, I liked this video. Some of my 'in my humble opinion' better videos down get the massive amounts of views, but they are there for those to explore my channel. Also 'Ekselent'... I like the 1920's villain vibe :)
Don't forget that what your hearing is not my fantom. Its quantum leap pianos virtual instrument.
How about a few tutorials on reharmonizing a simple melody. My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean or Mary Had a Little Lamb etc or improvising on a melody
I like the idea, not 'mary had a little lamb though'... She needs blasting along with her lamb into the stratosphere ;). Joking aside... check out my latest video on melody, you might like it - ua-cam.com/video/plv5qfdhk5E/v-deo.html
This is fantastic. Thanks.
You're very welcome
Good. What about playing chord melody(not chord in left hand melody in right)and also block chords with the chord in the middle?
Estou gostando muito das apresentações
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
Request: Ambient Piano (This video may be all we need to make lots of ambient music, but what do I know. Could you give further ideas for beautiful, spacey, nice, repetitive, dreamy, pensive, slow, arpeggios/chords?)
Amazing video and waiting next videos
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Feeling motivated 😁
Thats the idea Sanjay!
Two thumbs up👍👍 great going.... Pls make a video on how to find the chords of any song and play along... And how to play music when someone is singing... That'll be really helpful..
Yup. I have a premium product planned on playing music by ear. I will explore it in some youtube vids though. You seen this video about playing while singing? ua-cam.com/video/eF04fwsvJnA/v-deo.html
Creative Piano Academy thanx for replying😃😃
Garima Gupta - paste any UA-cam songs url into Chordify.net and it will show you the chords, although it has some errors, a little knowledge will let you make the needed fixes...
This is really beautiful and very helpful! 😃😃 And lol your t-shirt! 😂 Love from India.
Haha, Love that t-shirt. It was gifted by a good friend who now lives in kerala. Glad you liked it.
You are awesome man.
So are you dude... so are you!
Another great video! Well done! And thanks!
Thanks Tomislav. That means a lot!
This is awesome. Great Videos!!!
I tried this for the first time today, Love it and will keep practising until I get it right. Issue I have is that stretch to the right hand little finger note while keeping the other notes accurate! particularly at 6:57 playing the G&E with right hand at same time. Is this normal and just comes with practice?
BEST Piano channel on the entire WWW + UA-cam universe 😁
Literally just bought a piano having played guitar for years. Starting from scratch and your UA-cam channel is absolutely brilliant, fantastic teaching method and awesome lessons for any beginner to pick up having never played piano before. Going to really enjoy learning with your videos and content.
Excellent Simon. Keep going. You're already a little ahead if you play guitar.
Top stuff as always. You inspire me.
Great stuff John. I hope you put it into action!
hello! can you show us how to play "a million dreams" of the greatest showman. Thank you
How did I miss this tutorial? It’s great. Can you do a tutorial on rhythm - as you keep the rhythm going - I struggle with this. I’m sure you’ve probably done one already, if so could you head me in the right direction, please? By the way, I’ve passed your site on to a lot of my friends who are just beginning, they think you are genius too.
Jozef, greetings from Poland. Thanks to you, I finally managed to make some progress in learning to play the piano. It is not easy to start at the age of 36, but your advice helps a lot. Keep it up!!! P.S. Your name looks like it has Polish origin. Józef Sikora :)
Some people using left hand to make chords; could you explain about these cases?
Thanks.
Loved this video I can get the C but can't reach that E, stretch as i might, with my right hand my little finger was broken years ago and hooks in just a bit to much :(
Which of these would you recommend for using with a distorted guitar power chord? Particularly if it’s a power chord allowed to ring out.
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Creative Piano Academy I would like to learn how to write a song on piano. This lesson is great. Thank you ❤
Creative Piano Academy I mean writing melody line base on chords progression (exp: C G Am F)
Sometimes we put MIDI of a melody on a Piano Roll in software. But when I want to put the chords, not able to perfectly match the emotion of the song ( I mean not able to identify the Chords ). Want tutorial on that please. 😄😃
Sometimes, people move out of the scale, like in a chord progression or maybe like at a climax, which completely changes the mood of the song. The problem is that when I try to do it, it sounds horrible or if I do catch on some good moves, then I am not able to build it up. Could you kindly take something like that.
P.S. Could kindly tell what's happening over in this video at around 1:54 to 1:57. You may also get an idea what I was talking about if you listen to the full sing. ua-cam.com/video/m463AgR-IJ0/v-deo.html
Love that song you linked. Looks a lot like the 'code studio' setup. I did a cover of 'madari' if you havent seen it - ua-cam.com/video/B96u0o9_Nks/v-deo.html
So basically that 'transition' chord you are talking about is a diminished chord (at least thats what my ears tell me). Its a whole other world to explain and more than I can do in a comment. Basically, we can use it to link 2 chords or even move between keys.
Nice.. please give some more chord voicings...
Dear Sir, on fingering, is it always 145 on left side and 125 on right side? please explain ,thank you!
Coooooool 👍🏻☕️
@creativepianoacademy what software program are you using for the animated keyboard at top of your video.
where can i get the sheet music for the lesson
In what key were you playing when you showed the open voicing at the beginning?
Eb I think. I'd have to double check. I first started playing this technique in Eb but taught it in C to make it easier.
Joe, another great video, love the ideas you present. Curious if you've seen Scaler by PluginBoutique? Amazing tool that not only has huge libraries of chords and flexibility in how it voices them, including artist chord sets, but it also will detect input notes and/or chords and tell you the applicable scales and modes, and rank them depending on the number of matching notes... might inspire you for some add'l chord ideas - not that you need them! Thanks again!
That software looks really good. Fairly cheap as well. I'm always keep to try out stuff like this because you never know enough. 'proper' music theory is a bit of a weakness of mine so it's probably a great learning tool. I'll check it out!
chak de phatta... Excellent Vid :)
Hello sir! I love your work...I just wanted to ask if you use a sustain pedal ? That sounds beautiful
Thanks. Yes I use a sustain pedal. If you want to learn how to use it.. ua-cam.com/video/N3yS7pG1MGQ/v-deo.html
At 1:34 the label says "no key." Funny, it looks and sounds a lot like the key of C to me. 🍵*sips tea*
At 15:00 it was so satisfying 😍😍 !! And you promise me that you'll reply to my comment even when you'll have millions of Subscribers on this Channel in future. 😃
Haha, millions and millions, lol. Its growing steady and I like the engagement with you guys. I've seen some channels with millions of subscribers and only a few thousand views on their vids.
Hi Josef, please can you do a tutorial for the song “Even If” by the Christian group Mercy Me. In the key of C please. Thanks.
I Absolutely Love That Song...I Second This Request!!!
jambalaya, have you heard this cover version by Lance Horsley?...Excellent Performance, in my opinion. ua-cam.com/video/4xrBdegU8Jw/v-deo.html
Ron Domansky, wow this is beautiful. Thanks alot! And this was the cover that i kept listening to. Here's the link : ua-cam.com/video/0rFY35ZSV2w/v-deo.html
Thanks jambalaya for sharing the cover version of "Even If" you have been listening to. I had not heard this one before. Another Great Job of this Beautiful Song for me to add to my Play List. These "Two" are the tops I have heard.
Robert Schumann is smiling down from Heaven. He was the king of rich resonating diatonic chord progressions.
I think I got it right away. So you just play for example a C Major Cord, but skipped the 3th note and play the route note again but 1 octave higher and on the right hand you skipped the 5th note to play the missing 3th as chord and the same thing with the octave. Something like that xD Did I got it before watching the video?
Haha, I think so. you def got the left hand and I think you got the right :)
That "Secret Sauce" ad lol
Its all about the sauce!
why did you played EBE GBG instead of EGE BGB , i thought that is d sequence bit confused guru
Hey Sukesh. I'm not sure what you mean. Both those sets of notes are the E minor chord. The beauty about open chords like this is that you can spread them out in whatever way you want. This can create slightly different variations. So your version is simply a different way to play it and will sound great.
thank you i am working on this its great , its a three days long weekend and i am spending most of time with my piano thank you for this study material
You have a video anywhere of you explaining the 7th degree? Everybody just dismisses it because it’s “diminished” and “complicated.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤️
While doing this I learnt the gohan angers theme
👍❤
oo chak de phattee.....
Lol
Great video. Great tea shirt. I am sure your wife got it for you. I hope you know what is written on it . It is a typical punjabi phrase.
you should wear t shirt with your channel logo
Very nice video chak de phatta
Haha
Vanilla. Video title says "epic," "majesty." Listen to some Wagner, Elgar, Mahler, et al.