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Attaching a Progression to a Melody

Jay asked, "I really want to find an easy way, if there is one. The question - If I have a melody, then how do I come up with interesting chord progressions for it?" read more...

Major and Minor

As musicians, we come across the terms 'major' and 'minor' everyday yet not many of us really know what they mean. read more...

How Much to Practise?

Most of us lead busy lives. If you're a student, there are exams and assignments. As an adult, it's even tougher - work commitments, raising children, etc read more...

Demystifying Diminished Chords

Basically, a diminished chord is a stack of minor 3rds. For those of you who have no idea what that means, you can work out a dim chord by starting at the root, counting up 3 semitones, playing that note, then count up another 3 semitones, and playing that note too. read more...

The Major 2nd Chord

In short, major 2nd chords are major triads with the major 2nd added, so a C2, for example, should be thought of as C E G + D. There are 4 inversions of this chord read more...

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Dave
Posts: 16

OOops
Reply #22 on : Tue December 27, 2011, 13:25:42

Sorry just after sending in my question about the chords to play along with my melody line, I saw in an old post the answer I was looking for. But, I do want to say that your forum is very helpful in itself as it answers a lot of questions itself. I just got into the manual and love doing the scale exercises, which I already knew my 12 scales but I love the exercises you have us doing, thanks so much. Love the videos also, please keep them coming.

Terry Hache
Posts: 16

Right Hand Patterns
Reply #21 on : Tue December 20, 2011, 09:07:22

Hi I am a guitar player that knows the basic chords on piano and would like to learn different right hand patterns to accompany me while i am singing. is there one basic one that would work for most soft rock that you could recommend

regards

Sam
Posts: 16

Your teaching is great
Reply #20 on : Thu December 15, 2011, 15:51:55

hi terrence, I like your teaching and Im a huge fan of yours. Id like learn more from you. Ive ordered your manual. eagerly looking forward to learning from it.
hope it contains practice excercises.
thanks
sam
India

Francisco Vargas
Posts: 16

Jazz
Reply #19 on : Tue October 04, 2011, 11:57:51

Hi Professor I play on Spanish Churh in California USA,and I tried look for help on how to play Ballad,NewEage,Blues,Bolero patterns in conbination with Jazz.I need help I have been playing for about 3 years but I don't play very good for play in a band or solo. please I need help.

Salome/Sally
Posts: 16

Song suggestion
Reply #18 on : Sun July 17, 2011, 00:40:50

Hi I really enjoy your teachings and I've just ordered your book, can't wait for it to get here. I have a problem with intro's and wondered if you could give any suggestions. I also have a request could you do the song 'this is the air I breathe.'

Amateur
Posts: 16

Playing by Ear
Reply #17 on : Fri May 27, 2011, 10:26:36

I play by ear since I was 3 y.o.with church hymns to begin with. Harmony comes naturally to me though it may be simple chords and not as complex as the professionals. I enjoy playing that way instead of going through the song books which I find encumbering. I got to about Grade 2 in piano lessons and stopped.
How do you suggest I progress and hone in my ability to improve and still enjoy playing.

warren john caruana
Posts: 16

Piano Improvisation
Reply #16 on : Sat April 23, 2011, 19:49:58

I just wanna have the manual so that i could learn piano improvisation..,

THANKS :)

WARREN

Kevin R Hart
Posts: 16

Book and CD
Reply #15 on : Tue April 19, 2011, 05:17:25

Hi Terence, I have just received your book/cd and have in the first 1 hour have improved my playing just by reading page 16 alone. You call it "Right hand rhythms" but the syncopation with the left hand has made the real difference for me so far. I was over complicating everything where as the simple rhythms I somehow bypassed. Thanks for putting me straight, can't wait to explore the rest of the book, Kevin

Warren
Posts: 16

Re:
Reply #14 on : Mon March 07, 2011, 09:44:42

Hi,
Just wanted to say that the manual is fantastic and looking forward to the dvds. I just wanted to say that it would be good to have some jazz improv in the dvds too.
Warren

Anonymous
Posts: 16

Re:
Reply #13 on : Sun August 22, 2010, 23:32:48

Hi.

Quick question, when you find that there are several bars of one chord, what do you to to make it sound interesting? For instance, in Brenton Brown's Praise is Rising in the key of G, a lot of the verse is simply a G chord.

By the way, your manual is great and has helped me vastly improve. :-)

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