piano practice Now it's YOUR turn to be the life and soul of the party!. Click Here 👈 Looking for a beginner friendly pian...
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Now it's YOUR turn to be the life and soul of the party!. Click Here 👈
Looking for a beginner friendly piano exercise? Let's get into this exercise that sounds good, will warm up your fingers, and will brighten up your piano [Music] practice, I call this the "Soundtrack Exercise". This is based on a course progression 6-4-1-5. This is a core progression that lots of composers use in soundtrack, hence the soundtrack exercise. We're currently in the key of B flat major. So B flat major chord 6 is G minor. So G, B flat and D. For this exercise, both of our hands are always playing the same notes. Okay, so we have G, B flat and D - that's our first one. Okay, our next chord is an E flat Major chord but we're going to invert this. Okay, just to make the shifting of our hands a little bit easier, so instead of going down here to E flat major. We're actually going to stay around this area and move the D to the E flat. So just like that. And it gives us the rough equivalent of E flat major. It's the inverted one. So this is the first inversion of E flat major. Next we're going to move to B flat major. So we're going to have an F, B flat and a D. Okay so this is also an inverted chord of B flat major. This is the second inversion of B flat major. And finally we're going to end with F major. This is the root one, the root chord of F major, F, A, C. Just to recap again, we have four chords 6 - 4 - 1 - 5. We start on G minor, go to E flat major, go to B flat major, and end with F major. In this quick exercise video tutorial, I want to share with you three... three levels. So Level 1 is just playing them in "Block Chords". So let's warm them up just like this and repeat. I love the sound. So Level 2 we're going to move on to something a little bit hard. This is what I showed you at the start of the video. Now we are going to play them in the arpeggio form. We're going to break these chords apart. We're going to break them up, play them broken and we're going to do a bit of a contrary motion. So we're going to start outside and come in like this. Start outside and venture in next chord, And if you notice as well I'm doing kind of a slight wrist movement just to release tension. As you progress in this exercise and as it starts to get a little bit easier, try to then increase the speed as [Music] well. I love this exercise because it sounds very epic. I'm actually using the pedal as well if you can't already tell. Uh I love this level too because it really syncs up my hands together. To do this before I practice piano so.... What you're trying to do with this exercise is trying to really sync up so that your right and left hand are playing exactly at the same time. So you might find as you do this you might encounter a problem like this, not fully being synced up. So I want you to really think about it right and left hand 1,000% together. Especially when you're playing fast this problem is going to be more prevalent. We're moving on to Level 3. Now this is a slightly more advanced level of this exercise. This is where I'm going to try to get you to do some IMPROVISING. This is for roughly more intermediate and advanced pianists. But I do want you to try this, which is we're going to start on our G minor chord but this time I want you to move to a new chord and decide for yourself what chords you want to move to. As a very simple rule, you just need to change either 1 note or 2 notes every time you change a chord. So, for example, let me just explain in the exercise I had for you today it started on G minor. And as I change the D to E flat, that changed the chord. Okay, so a chord has 3 notes. Every time you change, even just one note, the entire chord changes. So G minor to E flat major. Okay, I just changed one note to get to there. You can change 1 note or 2 notes if you want sometimes. You can change all 3 notes but just as a very simple rule. Let's try to do an improvisational exercise where you start on G minor and just going to move around. Okay so let me just give you an idea of what to do, I'm going to start with G minor. Maybe I change the middle one now, top two now, bottom top two. Try this exercise. It's a lot of fun. It's a lot of experimenting. Part of the piano player's life is all about expanding your soundscape. In this tutorial you learned four chords 6 - 4 -1 - 5, (G minor, E flat major, B flat major, F major) but now in level 3 let's try to start on G minor and try to venture into other chords by yourself. It's not so important to really fully analyze what chords and what chords for now. But just try to move one or two notes at a time and see where the sound takes you. For some of you this improvisational exercise might give you a bit of anxiety to feel like oh there's no structure. But try to go with it. Try to just see where the sound takes you. Experiment, try to listen to what sounds good and later try to replay those chords and try to figure out what chords those are. This is how I also got really good at piano chords. And learning them by just having fun, experimenting moving into different chords and then with my own ears and my own heart trying to listen to what sounds good. Hope you had fun with this soundtrack exercise. Let me know in the comments how you went with it. I'll catch you in the next piano tutorial. ...
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