More Right-Hand Techniques For New Age Piano

What can you do on the piano? Answer? A lot! In fact, there are so many ways to hit notes it can get crazy.

One technique that's used by many New Age piano players is the right-hand crossover. Here the right hand reaches over the left to hit bass notes or chords. This adds a very rich and full sound to your playing.

Take Lesson #7: Caverns for example. Here we have an opportunity to practice this technique. The left hand plays a simple ostinato pattern near the middle of the keyboard while...

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Inspiration and New Age Piano Playing

I have a book of nature pictures that sits on my piano. Usually, I'll look at a picture that gives me inspiration before I play. Not always, but most of the time, this is enough to put me in "right brain" mode and transport me to a place where words are not needed. This place is a place of emotion and pure inspiration. I place my fingers on the piano keyboard and play a chord that calls to me. And the magic begins.

We all need to be inspired. For me, nature does it. What inspires you? Do you think of a special place or person? Or is it a memory of days gone by? Whatever it is, we can use these emotion filled experiences as a springboard for New Age improvisation or composition. Anything that will get you to stop thinking and enter the realm of feeling is OK. Once inspired, the intuition takes over and the journey begins.

What inspires you?

Piano Lesson Videos and YouTube - A Perfect Match!

If you've ever visited YouTube you already know how easy they've made it to view videos online. No more waiting for movies to download. No server crashes or time spent counting the seconds until it actually loads.

Yes, they've made it easy for anyone to upload their visions and ideas to the web. In fact, they have an entire section devoted to "how to" do something.

Recently, I uploaded my first video to YouTube. It's titled "Piano Lessons: December Twilight."

And with this video (hopefully) I show you how to...

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How to Make Your Boring Piano Improvisations Come to Life!

Do you think you need to constantly learn new techniques to get good at piano improvisation? Do you believe that getting one more technique under your belt will make you a better player?

Nope. Not going to happen.

If your piano improvisations sound boring it can only be for one reason. It's because you're bored!
It's not the piano or the chords you know or any one of a hundred different things you tell yourself you need before you can sound "good" on the piano. No. The problem is not with technique or chords. It's with you.

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Free Piano Lesson Video: "December Twilight"

Hello everyone. I've posted my first video to YouTube. It's just me playing and explaining how I created the lesson "December Twilight."

Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE0IxCIDb2w to watch this video!

Piano Lesson From Hell

I just came across this amazingly funny video on YouTube. If you've ever had a sadistic piano instructor before, you'll find this hillarious (or sad depending on whether you still play piano or not.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQaK7NHY-4

How To Quickly And Easily Improvise Your Own Unique Piano Music!

Improvisation… the word alone conjures images of free expression. It also intimidates those who have thought about actually trying it but stopped because of self-doubt.

It doesn't have to be this way.

The ability to improvise music at the piano is a skill that, like most others, can be taught. For example, take a look at the lesson "Winter Scene."

Here we have a basic piano improvisation using just 2 chords. The left hand plays a repeating pattern while the right improvises melody. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than this

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