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Piano & Keyboard

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Feb 13, 2008

Pete Sears teaches you all about the chords you'll be using when playing the piano or keyboard. This is a great beginners video. ...

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Feb 13, 2008

Pete Sears gives you a lesson on blues scales for the piano. Get ready for the blues! You should have a good understanding of regular scales first. ...

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Feb 13, 2008

Pete Sears teaches you about melodic minors - how to play ascending and descending melodic minor scales on the piano. He demonstarates with C, but you can do the same in any key. ...

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Feb 13, 2008

A Harmonic scale is basically the same as the natural minor but with a chromatically raised seventh degree. Pete Sears shows you how to play it on your piano. ...

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Feb 13, 2008

Minor modes use the same set of key signatures as major modes; whichever signature corresponds to the step pattern of the natural minor scale is considered the key signature for that minor mode. Here, ...

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Feb 12, 2008

Major piano scales are composed of a series of five whole and two half steps in this sequence: whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. This video starts by sh ...

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Feb 12, 2008

Before you can start playing piano, you need to understand how the piano is set up, and how to read music. Pete Sears explains the alphabetic representation of the different piano notes, and discusses ...

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Feb 12, 2008

Pete Sears teaches you how to experiment with your chords while playing the piano. This is a great way to begin learning how to improvise. ...

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Feb 12, 2008

Pete Sears explains about learning to play with an electric piano or keyboard. It's a bit different and you'll need to take a different approach. ...

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Feb 12, 2008

Learn Billy Joel's great song Piano Man and how to play it on the piano. You should already know how to play the piano to follow along. ...