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Play Any Pop Song By Ear Using Chord Progressions & Melodies: Piano MASTERCLASS - Beginner's Guide
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About Play Any Pop Song By Ear Using Chord Progressions & Melodies: Piano MASTERCLASS - Beginner's Guide
Welcome !
Welcome to Day 1 - C E G notes - UPDATED
Vid 2 - The Rest Of Notes - UPDATED
Vid 3 - continuity of video 2 - UPDATED
Vid 4 - Black Keys
Vid 5 - Your First Challenge! - UPDATED
Vid 6 - special key names
Vid 7 - Double flats and sharps
Vid 8 - Summary - UPDATED
Welcome to Day 2 - Intro to scales
Vid 2 - Why do we use scales
Vid 3 - Whole and Half Steps
Vid 4 - Major Piano Scales
Vid 5 - How to play major scales on the piano
Vid 6 - How to play minor scales on the piano
Vid 7 - How to play minor scales on the piano
Vid 8 - Scale Challenges
Vid 9 - Correction of the challenge
Vid 10 - Octaves Challenges
Vid 11 - Key vs Scale
Welcome to Day 3 - Chords
Vid 2 - Major Chords
Vid 3 - minor chords
VId 4 - From major to minor chords
Vid 5 - Major challenge and correction
Vid 6 - minor challenge and correction
Vid 7 - Inversions
Vid 8 - The 5' chords
Vid 9 - Major 7 chords
Vid 10 - minor 7 chords
Vid 11 - Inversions challenge
Vid 12 - Splitting piano chords
Vid 13 - Splash chords
Vid 14 - Sus 4 and sus 2 chords
Welcome to Day 4 - Mastering chords
Vid 2 - What are chord Progressions?
Vid 3 - Chords in Left Hand
Vid 4 - Chords in Right Hand
Vid 5 - Playing chords and octaves
Vid 6 - Left Hand Patterns
Vid 7 - Right Hand Patterns No.1
Vid 8 - Right Hand Patterns No.2
Vid 9 - Combining Both Hands
Vid 10 - Playing your first song
Welcome to Day 5 - Diving Deeper
Vid 2 - Intro to combining hands
Vid 3 - The 4 levels of learning
Vid 4 - Advancing Left hand
Vid 5 - Advancing right hand
Vid 6 - More advanced right hand
Vid 7 - Blending with Rhythm
Vid 8 - Hand positions and posture
Vid 9 - Using pedal
Welcome to Day 6 - Play songs
Vid 2 - Start with left hand
Vid 3 - Continue with right hand
Vid 4 - Play "Someone like you -- Adele"
Vid 5 - Transpose
Vid 6 - Can't help falling in love Overview
Vid 7 - Tutorial of our second song
Vid 8 - Easy on me -- Adele
Vid 9 - Play dozens of songs
Welcome to day 7 - Playing by ear!
Vid 2 - Step 1: Finding the key
Vid 3 - Step 2: Finding the chords
Vid 4 - Step 3: Finding the melody
Vid 5 - A Thousand Year Overview
Vid 6 - In Detail tutorial
Vid 7 - Two big challenges coming!
Vid 8 - 1st challenge correction
Vid 9 - 2nd challenge correction
Welcome to Day 8 - Fast learning (Level 1)
Vid 2 - First Elite Training
Vid 3 - What are intervals
Vid 4 - minor vs major intervals
Vid 5 - 2nd's
Vid 6 3rd's
Vid 7 - 4th and 5th
Vid 8 - 6th and 7th
Vid 9 - Train like a pro (Secret No.1)
Vid 10 Secret No.2
Welcome to Day 9 - Fast learning (Level 2)
Vid 2 - How 3rd's are related in a chord
Vid 3 - Find sharps in Major scales
Vid 4 - Find flats in Major scales
Vid 5 - What if there's no sharps and flats
Vid 6 - Make an exercice together
Vid 7 - First big challenge and correction
Vid 8 - Second big challenge correction
Vid 9 - Exceptions
Vid 10 - What about minor scales?
Vid 11 - Revise everything
Welcome to Day 10 - Make it sound magic!
Magic 1 - How I decide inversions
Magic 2 - How I play the melody
Magic 3 - How I play the chords & Melody in the same hand
Magic 4 - Arpegiating
Magic 5 - Advance Left Hand
Magic 6 - Advance more Left Hand
Magic 7 - Ultra Power Left Hand
Magic 8 - Play octaves in right hand
Magic 9 - Using the pedal
Magic 10 - Using the metronome
Magic 11 - Putting it all together
Play the pop song: ABCDEFU -- GAYLE
Welcome to Day 11 - Improvisation
Vid 2 - Improvisation for beginners
Day 12 - Start reading notes!
Vid 2 - Treble clef / G clef
Vid 3 - Bass clef / F clef
Vid 4 - Sharps and Flats
Vid 5 - Chords and Octaves
Vid 6 - Challenge 1 and correction
Vid 7 - Challenge 2 and correction
Vid 8 - What is key signature?
Vid 9 - From key signature to scale
Vid 10 - Let's read some notes together
Welcome to Day 13 - What are rhythms
Vid 2 - The Map of Rhythms
Vid 3 - Seeing Rhythms Together
Vid 4 - Counting Rhythms Together
Vid 5 - Dots
Vid 6 - Rests
Vid 7 - Time Signatures
Vid 8 - Reading Notes Together
Welcome to Day 14 - Start complex key signatures
Vid 2 - Annotations in music
Vid 3 - More Annotations
Vid 4 - Can we play jazz with the knowledge?
Vid 5 - Play Jazz Songs
Vid 6 - Read Notes and read them directly
Vid 7 - Some abstract reading notes
NOTION: The software I used (optionnal)
MUSESCORE: The software I used (optionnal)
Thanks
What You Will Learn?
- Want to play new pop songs on the piano? Or old trendy songs? Want a tutorial for songs like ABCDEFU-GAYLE, or Easy On Me-Adele? A step by step guide is the best solution for beginners. Since I started teaching piano, I wondered why there was so many students that genuinely wanted to play piano, but were not satisfied with the songs. I created this class to solve the problem. We will go through songs that everyone know like A Thousand Year, Can’t help falling in love, No Sleep (Martin Garrix). Yes even EDM songs are covered here for a simple reason: We are learning to play by ear and not a tutorial on how to play like others. You are going to develop your own method of playing by ear through this course that was structured to start from the beginning. If you already know some piano, no problem. I am sure you can find out some useful informations on how to play by ear or improvise. We are going to walk through beginner steps, to ADVANCED levels!.
- There’s more than 130 lectures. What are we going to do through all of those?.
- The short way of explaining it is: We will learn some basic informations, use it to play new pop songs and then use all of this to play by ear. After playing by ear we are going to make it sound fancier by playing in our full hands on literally all the piano keyboard..
- It's divided into 14 days:.
- DAY 1: Piano keys.
- DAY 2: Scales.
- DAY 3: Chords.
- DAY 4: Mastering Chords.
- DAY 5: Diving Deeper into songs.
- DAY 6: You can play lots of songs!.
- Here, we will do many follow-along videos, playing some songs using all the techniques that we learned in the previous videos. I will go slowly in my explanation, leaving you with the time to pause the video and practice while I am playing. The songs are: Can't help Falling in love - Elvis Presley and Easy on me - Adele.
- DAY 7: PLAY BY EAR.
- Here, and fortunately, I will have the chance to share with you the ways that I found the most effective to play by ear. And because I believe that we learn by doing, we will learn by discovering together how to play the song A Thousand Year - Christina Perri and A Sky Full Of Stars - Coldplay. I will give you a challenge to play 2 songs and correct this together by sharing with you my thought process behind playing by ear. The songs are: Stay with me - Sam Smith and All of me - John Legend.
- DAY 8 & 9: Fast Learning.
- DAY 10: Make it sound Magic.
- This is a special part of the course, where I will guide you through my ways of playing like a pro on the piano, and use my full hand to play. But it's not all theory: We will learn a song called ABCDEFU - GAYLE, and trending song by the time I am writing this. My goal is to make you independent as much as possible, so in the future you don't have to refer to tutorial videos on how to sound like a pro. I placed everything you need to know here, to make the songs that you play sound magic. You will be amazed by how much you can do with the knowledge we gained!.
- DAY 11: Improvisation.
- Here, we are not going to do in depth into improvisation, since we already are able to transform songs from boring to exciting. We learned how to play melody and chords in the right hand at the same time, and how to play octaves with your left hand all over the piano. But this section, is going to be dedicated on how to play a melody you like it. So it's more like composition or improvise your composition. It's a fun section if you want to level up in piano..
- DAY 12: Reading Notes.
- DAY 13: Rhythms.
- DAY 14: Advanced part.
- Here, we are going to to over some information that we used, and play jazz with it.We will also go over a music sheet, and using our knowledge, we will play it directly on the piano. I will also here tell you what I was used throughout this course so maybe you want to use MuseScore or Notion.