This piano hack teaches you the numbers or scale degrees of the major scale. These numbers are important to know – if you want to create chords, chord progressions, basslines, and much more. Although it looks [...]
Piano Hack #1 – Numbers
Rock Piano Soloing
Rock Piano – Fast Sixteenth Notes
Knowing some basic chord shapes can unlock many possibilities. One is to play chord tones as fast sixteenth notes. The effect is great, while the playing is rather simple.
A rock piano solo pattern with arpeggios
In the following example, just move the same chord shape up and the keyboard [...]
Rock Piano with Slash Chords
A very powerful yet simple element to use when playing rock piano is slash chords. This means that you play a chord over a different bass note than its root. So while you would normally play a C [...]
Rock Piano Chords
As you learned in the previous post, rock music relies heavily on chords. At the same time it is strongly influenced by the blues, especially in its early times during the 50s and 60s.
From blues to rock piano
The following example moves from the I to the IV to the V chord [...]