| Have you ever wanted to just sit down at the piano | | | | (all tones together) then we break them up. For an |
| and play what you feel? Without worrying if it's good | | | | excellent example of this, see the author's free piano |
| enough or if you have enough "talent?" You can when | | | | lesson "Reflections in Water" available below. |
| you learn how to play piano using the amazing open | | | | Once we've got this very large chord structure down |
| position piano chord! | | | | in our hands, we can then use it to create music with. |
| This chord structure allows the complete beginner to | | | | Improvisation simply means spontaneous expression - |
| create modern sounds at the piano FASTER THAN | | | | learning how to create in the moment. Improvising does |
| ANY OTHER METHOD! After teaching piano for 14 | | | | not have to be hard! Once you get the chords down, |
| years, I can safely say that I've never seen students | | | | you're left with the melody creation aspect and this is |
| progress as fast as they do when working with this | | | | easy to because all you use are the notes from the C |
| chord position. Let's examine how one can improvise | | | | Major scale. |
| right away using the open position chord. | | | | We use our chords much the same way a painter |
| First, you must learn how to use it. The easiest way to | | | | uses a palette of colors. We create using chords and |
| do this is to simply learn the chords in the Key of C | | | | the element of time. In the example lesson "Reflections |
| Major. We take the entire 6-note chord and move it up | | | | in Water," the chords you play are in a given order. All |
| step by step. First we play C Major 7, then D minor 7, | | | | you have to do now is play them in that order and |
| E minor 7, F Major 7, G 7, and A minor 7 and finally, B | | | | improvise your own melody! |
| half-diminished. We play the chords first as solid chords | | | | |