Learning basic piano improvisation using the C major pentatonic scale!

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  • Опубліковано 10 лис 2024

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  • @timotheemonet330
    @timotheemonet330 7 місяців тому +1

    Loved it!

  • @VincentComet-l8e
    @VincentComet-l8e 5 місяців тому +1

    That's a great intro - thanks for posting. It's given me plenty to practice on.
    Have subscribed...

    • @SheridanSeyfried
      @SheridanSeyfried  5 місяців тому

      Thanks so much! Good luck with your playing!

  • @tylkopytam
    @tylkopytam Рік тому +1

    best simplest explanations and I saw tons of it, thanks!

  • @lancelouw2763
    @lancelouw2763 3 роки тому +2

    Very helpful. So simple yet so nice. Thank you for taking the time to show me this 🙏

    • @SheridanSeyfried
      @SheridanSeyfried  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you Lance! So glad you found it helpful. I find this chord progression very soothing and satisfying and fruitful to improvise with. All the best with your music making!

  • @lynndarcey7161
    @lynndarcey7161 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you for this clear, concise and well-paced lesson. I like your statement “There is no wrong way to start.” Your demonstration with your LH (without using your thumb for fingering) allowed me to not get hung up on fingering but listen to the chords and pay more attention to your RH.

  • @kunalkishor8635
    @kunalkishor8635 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing video... lots of musical knowledge! Please keep uploading.

  • @eddted2876
    @eddted2876 3 роки тому +2

    Good he NAMES EACH keynote and CHORDS. Letters.marked is helpful too! He.explains well! Just don't rush it.bro for.beginners! Do MORE demos with counts!

  • @carrollrobinson468
    @carrollrobinson468 3 роки тому +1

    thank you sheridan i got that this got me on track you are a good teacher

    • @SheridanSeyfried
      @SheridanSeyfried  3 роки тому

      Thank you so much Carroll! Good luck with your piano playing and creativity!

  • @SheridanSeyfried
    @SheridanSeyfried  3 роки тому +3

    Want some more ideas for this? I had my students compose (with my help) and improvise (without my help) over this same chord progression, playing each chord 2x in a row (C C Dm Dm F F C C). They used the pentatonic scale in the right hand (but with some occasional F's thrown in, since F can also work nicely since it's part of the Dm chord (2nd chord) and F chord (3rd chord). Here's the video: ua-cam.com/video/y5-KrKD2FJs/v-deo.html

  • @danieljamespt
    @danieljamespt 2 роки тому +1

    Everything you say is poetry my guy

  • @evelynn_teoh
    @evelynn_teoh 3 роки тому +1

    thank you.🥰🥰. all good tips

  • @juneclarke7618
    @juneclarke7618 3 роки тому +1

    Great lesson

  • @elefectomariarosa
    @elefectomariarosa 3 роки тому +1

    I really liked this video

  • @kimyoung3484
    @kimyoung3484 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much ♥️♥️♥️👍🌹🌹🌹

  • @iremix4FUN
    @iremix4FUN 2 роки тому +1

    I been looking for this vid but no one showed me how to use it to make a melody

    • @SheridanSeyfried
      @SheridanSeyfried  2 роки тому

      Do you mean that this video helped show you how to make a melody?

    • @iremix4FUN
      @iremix4FUN 2 роки тому

      @@SheridanSeyfried Yes . Can you make a vid doing pentatonic scale in patterns in a different scale

  • @vipinabhishek
    @vipinabhishek 3 роки тому +1

    Nice

  • @lynnebebout6069
    @lynnebebout6069 3 роки тому +2

    Very helpful, but I have to ask what is up with your fingerings? And the out of tune instrument?

    • @SheridanSeyfried
      @SheridanSeyfried  3 роки тому +2

      Quarantine project-couldn’t get a piano tuner! Also, I’m assuming you mean fingerings for the LH chords-if so, it’s because it’s easier to see what notes I’m playing if I use those fingers. I should have said that I don’t personally use that fingering! Some beginners gravitate toward that bizarre fingering and I find that they grow out of it pretty quickly

  • @christianweise8806
    @christianweise8806 2 роки тому +1

    Why did he choose c,d,e,g and a? Why not f for example?

    • @SheridanSeyfried
      @SheridanSeyfried  2 роки тому +1

      That’s a great question. There’s no reason not to use F-it sounds great, especially over the second and third chords, since F is one of the notes in those chords. The reason for sticking to C D E G and A is because it is a limited set of notes that has its own sort of melodic logic (called the C major pentatonic scale). Play them up and down a few times and you’ll hear that logic-it’s so strong that the listener can usually make sense of a melody built on these notes even when the chords underneath don’t contain those notes. The other reason to keep to these notes is that F clashes pretty strongly with the first chord, whose members are C, E, and G. Particularly it clashes with the E-E is the note the F wants to resolve to when it’s played over a C. So, basically it takes a little more musical experience to effectively use F over this chord progression, so to make things a little easier for beginners I limited it to the notes of the pentatonic scale.

  • @robdonell9915
    @robdonell9915 3 роки тому

    Sure nice to watch fingers that aren’t jeweled or tatted up.

  • @andig97
    @andig97 День тому

    Ur right hand is in the pentatonic but ur left is just playing any chords? I dont get how that works

  • @CrankyRayy
    @CrankyRayy 3 роки тому

    guys just drawing on his piano

  • @samehsalah9532
    @samehsalah9532 Місяць тому

    Lots of talk