How to Practice ANY Melody, Progression, Riff or Lick in All 12 Keys (Piano)
In this Piano Tutorial, we learn how to Transpose a piece of music using all possible directions One of the most important goals for a professional Pianist is to be able to take a phrase or section of a song and play it with emotion and dynamics on all keys. In this lesson, we study a Melody - Somewhere over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz), a chord progression (Africa by Toto), a progressive rock riff (Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas) and a Blues Lick. Understand how to practice on multiple scales using different paths - Chromatic, Whole Tone, Thirds & the Circle of Fifths 👉🏼🏡Visit our Channel for more Tutorials & Performances - https://geni.us/NathanielYouTube 📹 Our Video Courses (Lifetime Bundle): https://www.nathanielschool.com/members-videos 📇 Courses, Workshops, Videos, or Private lessons: https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 💪🏽 All our Practice Exercises in one place: https://geni.us/PianoExercisePlaylist 𝌡 Learn how to Transpose - https://youtu.be/PtGq9mnaY9w How to Transpose ANY Melody on the Piano - https://youtu.be/Px1Dn3Q1x6w 🕵🏼♂️ Checklist for becoming a Pro Pianist - https://youtu.be/hGaYw2hVmhA 🏋🏽♀️ Essential Practice Goals - https://youtu.be/MczJLtXzJUw 🎓 Learn Music With Nathaniel School of Music & Jason Zac: https://www.nathanielschool.com/ 🎼 Register for our virtual workshops & lessons: https://geni.us/UpcomingClasses 🎶 Learn all about our flagship course, "Music Method": https://www.nathanielschool.com/musicmethod 📚 All our YouTube lessons (1000+) categorised by skill level, topic & genre all in one place: https://www.nathanielschool.com/freelessons 🐣 All our Beginner Piano Lessons in one Place: https://www.nathanielschool.com/free-lessons/tags/beginner-1 🕰️ 00:00 - Performance 00:37 - What we will be practicing? 00:58 - The Music we’ll be picking 01:32 - Importance of Transposition 03:41 - Somewhere over the Rainbow 07:47 - Ease of Fingering 09:12 - Using the Circle of Fifths 11:08 - All 12 Keys 12:57 - Thoughts about Chromatic Practice 14:11 - Chord Progression - Africa 14:52 - 3 Exercises with Chord Inversions 15:44 - Block Chords & Arpeggio Patterns 17:03 - Playing Africa on many scales 18:44 - Let’s take a Riff 19:34 - Carry on my Wayward Son - Riff 20:18 - Breaking it Down 24:19 - Blues Lick 25:06 - Let’s learn the lick on C 25:29 - Now to Transpose 26:11 - How we come up with “Licks” 27:30 - Revision 29:34 - Directions of Practice 📧 Customized & Private Classes: music@nathanielschool.com 📞 +917760456847 (Mobile & WhatsApp) 👨👩👧👦 Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/jasonzac 🎧 Listen to Jason Zac Music: https://geni.us/AbsenceYouTubeJZB 💰 Donate on PayPal: https://geni.us/DonatePayPal #Transposition #All12Keys #PianoPractice
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