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- one of the things I hear so often from people learning piano is they just want to sit down and play they don't want to be glued to the sheet music or Boxed In
- by constantly thinking about complex Theory or chords they just want to get creative and improvise a piece of music that actually sounds good we've all seen
- those musicians play who seem to just be so in the moment they're not thinking or doing anything else other than just letting the music flow in this video I'm
- going to walk you through an eight-step method of how you can become more free on the piano I'm going to show you how to improvise using chords and if you
- follow all of the steps in this video you'll soon be able to sit down at the piano and a brand new piece of music will flow out let's dive
- in hello welcome back to the Keys coach YouTube channel my name is Adam and thank you so much for clicking on this video I've been so excited about putting
- this video together because when I discovered this method it completely changed my playing I genuinely mean that it's an absolute Game Changer it opened
- up so many new possibilities on the piano particularly in terms of improvising and getting creative and being able to come up with a piece of
- music on the spot if you want to follow along at home I've put together a free pdf lesson book which you can download by clicking the link in the video
- description that will take you through each step that I'm going to cover in this video and it will really help you get these sounds under your fingers so
- go ahead and grab that so step one is to choose your key now I'm going to pick a key that I really like playing in I like playing in the key of F major so this is
- my F major scale and I always think f it's a really nice and bright key I mean it's very personal but that's why I kind of think
- I think it's bright it's got one flat it's got B flat in it just that one there and if I play you the
- scale the first thing is to get that scale really strong under your fingers I'd probably do that in both
- hands so we're only going to think about the notes in F major that's going to be the entire kind of menu of notes that we've got an offer for us today I might
- just do a few little extra exercises to get the sound of that key under my fingers and for those of you that watch the don't practice scales video where I
- took you through how to harmonize a major scale F major harmonized in that kind of a process it sounds like
- this so once you've got that scale really strong under your fingers step two is to take out the seventh degree so what is the seventh degree of F major
- well 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 it's e natural so we're just going to play the scale without that e
- natural this is known as a hexatonic scale because it has six notes another really good way to practice this scale is to change the
- starting note so often when we play scales we actually practice them just from the root to the root which isn't actually how a lot of music works if you
- think about Melodies they're often go below the scale and they also go above the
- scale so what I did there was I started the scale exactly the same f hexatonic scale but started on a
- c and this is a really useful thing to practice because when we come to impr Melodies a little bit later on we're not going to be Boxed In by having the root
- at the bottom or the root at the top we're going to be able to extend so this is where the fun really starts you now need to think to yourself what kind of
- music do I want to create I'm going to go for something slow and chilled I'm kind of thinking of a piano ballad kind of
- style I'm kind of thinking of that Tempo the great thing about doing something slower is that you're it's going to give you a bit more thinking
- time and you're not going to have to process things so fast you're going to just have a bit more time to work out what you're going to play so I'd
- probably go for something slower if you're just starting out with this and it's really important to think about the groove in other words if there was a
- drummer playing with you what would they be playing I'm kind of thinking like I do this all the time I vocalize drum grooves because what it really does
- is it helps you get a sense of the groove but also what it does that's even more important is it gives you the subdivision now the subdivision
- is and I've got that running through my head all of the time when I'm playing it's so important because that's what gives you the rhythmic drive it gives
- you the groove it gives you the energy and it also means that you can dip into each one of those subdivisions when you're
- [Music] playing so I'm really I'm really hearing the sound of that high hat
- as you can probably tell I'm not a beatboxer by any stretch of the imagination but it's so important to vocalize these grooves it really will
- make a difference you're playing the next step is to come up with a baseline now when we get further down the process and you get a bit more comfortable with
- this you might be able to be even Freer with this and actually make the Baseline up on the spot but I think when you're starting out it's quite good to pre-plan
- what your Baseline is going to be so I think what I'm going to do for my Baseline is I'm going to start on one and then I'm going to go to the
- six and then I'm going to go to the four the five and the one so if it's going at that kind of tempo it would be like this 3
- [Music] 4 something like that I might vary that a bit but it's that that kind of idea this is a really useful thing to do by
- the way if you can click your fingers on the beat if you can do this it's so important because you're working on so
- many different things keeping a Groove maintaining a Tempo hand Independence it's all really useful stuff as a keys player you want to think
- of your left hand as this kind of foundation that your improvisation is going to go over so you want to make sure this is really
- [Music] secure so the next stage is to have a go at improvising a Melody over your Baseline that you've created so again
- we're only going to use these notes and we're just going to come up with something that fits in with our groove and works with our
- [Music] Baseline
- and what I was doing there was I was varying the Baseline very slightly by just playing some additional notes to keep the rhythm
- going the great thing about this scale is that all of the notes kind of work together and you don't really get any clashes or notes that don't sound very
- good when you combine them so at this stage I'd probably just recommend not thinking too much about what you're playing in your right
- hand just trying to come up with Melodies that sound Musical one of the things you can get in the sort of habit of doing is finding
- something that works and then just playing that over and over and over again really try and stretch out and try and find new ideas and really challenge
- yourself right think I've played that idea I'm now going to try and play something completely different so all of the time when I'm improvising that
- Melody I've got the drummer in my [Music] head that's just helping me look in time it's helping me hear the subdivision and
- it's just making it sound a bit more groovy rather than it kind of going out of time I'm really trying to lock in with that drama I'm also using the
- sustain pedal just to glue things together and it just really helps to kind of make everything flow from one chord to
- another if I play you something similar without the sustained pedal it's quite hard to kind of get that sort of glue and that kind of flow
- so yeah I'd really recommend using the sustain pedal but don't hold it down make sure you're actually bringing it up each time the bass not
- changes so you might be thinking oh that's all well and good I've kind of got my melody and I've got my Baseline but it doesn't sound full it doesn't
- sound like a piece of music it sounds like it's missing something sounds like it's missing all the kind of Harmony well you're completely right and I'm
- going to show you now how you can harmonize your melody in the right hand and it's really simple I've heard this called The Claw before okay sometimes
- it's called The Claw and all it does is it plays two shapes let me show you this I'll do that once more I'll come
- down so did you spot the two Triads I'm using there I'm only using an F major Triad and a G minor Triad and they're alternating so it goes F G minor F G
- minor F G minor F all I'm doing is I'm using inversions of those Triads so watch this there's my f Triad if I take this note and I put it up an
- octave and I do the same with this note and then I do that note again I'm back where I started there's all my f inversions and I do the same with G
- minor but this note up an octave but this note up an octave but this note up an octave I've then got all my inversions
- of a G minor Triad if I put them together
- and I'm always thinking about my little finger as being the melody note so this is the note that's carrying the
- melody if this part of the video is just a little bit like whoa how's that all working don't forget you can go and get that PDF and I've written these out for
- you so you can really practice them and get them under your fingers so how can you really PR practice those Triad shapes well the
- first thing I do would be to take one of them let's say take the F Triad and let's just go up and down the piano and really try and get those
- secure I do that a few times I then do the same with G
- minor and then what I do is I come up with a pattern and I'd say right I'm going to try and do
- this I'll do that again so did you see I'm only ever playing an F or a G minor Triad and a
- really easy way to think about it if your Melody note is either an F an A or a c you're going to harmonize it with an F Triad and if your Melody note is a g a
- b flap or a d you're going to harmonize it with a G minor Triad once you've got that down you then want to start having a go at just
- playing a Melody but using those Triad [Music] shapes so the next step you're going to put your hands together so if we
- remember our [Music] Baseline I think it was that
- again it doesn't matter if the Baseline varies that's the whole point of this I'm now going to try and add my right hand over the top and improvise Melodies
- as I'm playing the bass note so watch this
- now there are a couple of extra little shifts and things I did there but the Bare Bones of it in my right hand I'm just playing F or G minor and in my left
- hand I'm playing Just notes from that scale that we looked at earlier the hexatonic scale and I've shown this to so many keys players and piano players
- and people who are learning and they just they all say the same thing they go but that's so simple and the reality is yes it is really simple and so often in
- music the simplest ideas are the best I'm going to vary the
- Baseline so you get the idea it can just take you to so many new places and it can open up so many new new possibility is this cuz it is so simple but it's so
- expressive and it's a really simple system that you can follow to just get these sounds immediately under your fingers so I'm going to show you one
- more step of how you can take this to the next level the first thing I'm going to do is add in an additional note in the bass now E flat isn't a note that
- was originally in our hexatonic scale but it sounds so good in this sequence let me show
- you so just adding that E flat adds so much variation there it's just a really tasty
- note that you can add in to kind of take the harmony to a slightly different place the other thing I'm doing is I'm splitting some Triads in my right
- hand you see I'm doing that little kind of glitch and all I'm doing anytime I have a black note directly adjacent to a
- white note so for example here I can slide and it just gives it a little bit of extra
- something it's just a little trick that you can use it's so common uh for Keys players to do
- this this was such a game changer for me when I learned this system and the great thing is it works in so many different styles let me show you in like a kind of
- uptempo kind of style what this would sound [Music] like there's even a way you can actually
- make it more bluesy I'll quickly show you this you can add in an A flat Triad that kind of gives you an idea but yeah I I think that might be something
- for another video go try it out at home I'd love to hear you experimenting with this and seeing where you take it maybe you could upload a video to Instagram
- and tag me in it and uh I'd love to have a listen thanks for watching this video if you've got something out of it it would mean a huge amount to me if you
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- I'll see you in the next video okay
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