In this tutorial, I break down 5 go-to piano techniques that have shaped my playing over the years—from fluttering chords and spread voicings to bluesy riffs and harp-like arpeggios. Whether you're working on a simple chord progression or pushing past the limitations of the piano, these tools will expand your sound and inspire your practice 🎶 📚 Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/c/jasonzac 👻 Jason’s Halloween Riffs (Playlist) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT9-zZIa9jcuZKWggo7cIDt1 🎼 Jason Zac Band - Poor Ol’ Blues - https://youtu.be/UXCwx09j5Zo 🖐 Spread Voicing Techniques (Playlist) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT9ygtrGwGFmfyvMyGWH52EC 💻 Binary Approach to Rhythm - https://youtu.be/lJMO2Kbqh88 📹 Our Video Courses (Lifetime Bundle): https://www.nathanielschool.com/members-videos 📇 Courses, Workshops, Videos, or Private lessons: https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 👉🏼🏡Visit our Channel for more Tutorials & Performances - https://geni.us/NathanielYouTube 🎓 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 00:48 - How I ended up with these techniques 02:46 - A very Binary Instrument 03:29 - Your Piano might be busted! 04:45 - 1. Fluttering Chord Technique 06:22 - From the Reverse Direction 06:47 - Add Chords 08:05 - Imagine - John Lennon 08:50 - When to use the technique 10:29 - Bluesy Lick 11:05 - Original Riff on F - Poor Ol’ Blues 11:52 - Breaking it down with the Slide 16:02 - H3. “Harp Like” arpeggios 17:27 - Getting the 2 hands to work together 18:12 - Cello Line 19:25 - Using the Pedal with the Chord Roots 21:42 - Over a Simple Chord Progression 22:33 - 4. Spread Voicing Technique 23:51 - Minor Harmony 25:04 - Improvizing with Spread Thirds 26:01 - The Motorbike 🏍️ 29:23 - The Limitations of the Piano 30:01 - Conclusion 📧 Customised & 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

In these Left Hand Piano Rhythm patterns, we take you through 7 riffs which sound like a complete composition when played with just the one hand. We use arpeggios across multiple genres - Folk, Fusion, Latin and more in this 3-part series. Also, get a glimpse of what the right hand can improvise on and learn all the relevant music theory. 📚 Download my MIDI files, Musescore files and PDF notation and support us on Patreon (5$) - https://www.patreon.com/posts/chord-charts-and-127411021  🐣 Simplest Set of Notes for the Left Hand for Solo Piano :🎹 https://youtu.be/pKGErIX45Ec 💪🏽 Piano Exercises - Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT8hhOvUngdofaRDLUToY5fx&si=fc-xQBK6W4gYvKQX ✋ Left Hand Workout: https://youtu.be/7TjYmFqfEUE 📹 Our Video Courses (Lifetime Bundle): https://www.nathanielschool.com/members-videos 📇 Courses, Workshops, Videos, or Private lessons: https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 👉🏼🏡Visit our Channel for more Tutorials & Performances - https://geni.us/NathanielYouTube 🎓 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 00:41 - Introduction 03:21 - Riff #1 03:44 - Riff #1 Lesson - Arpeggios, Phrasing - Key of Bb major 06:49 - Variation on Riff #1 (Major Third) 09:06 - Variation 2 - Changing the intervals 11:18 - Riff #2 - Diads, accents - Key of C minor 11:30 - Riff #2 Performance 11:44 - Riff #2 Lesson 15:16 - Transposing the Key to F minor 16:56 - Riff #3 - Arpeggios and Diads Combined - Key of B major 17:16 - Riff #3 Performance 17:33 - Riff #3 Lesson 21:48 - Conclusion 📧 Customised & 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

In this lesson, we learn all about the Dominant 7th Chord and how it works with 5 types of scales, including the pentatonic scales, half-whole diminished scale, whole tone scales and other exotic scales. We’ll also get a glimpse of how it works in both western and eastern music. 📚 Download my handwritten notes and support us on Patreon (5$) - 🔌 A few things you didn’t know about the Dominant 7th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOvzYUIx5vA 💪🏽 Feel the Power of the Dominant 7th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVzNGnvJfVI 🪷 Scales vs Keys vs Ragas vs Modes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzBEfnHCiA4 🎼 Mixolydian Chord Progressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxZwSC_F04o 📹 Our Video Courses (Lifetime Bundle): https://www.nathanielschool.com/members-videos 📇 Courses, Workshops, Videos, or Private lessons: https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 👉🏼🏡Visit our Channel for more Tutorials & Performances - https://geni.us/NathanielYouTube 🎓 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 00:50 - The Dominant 7th Chord 01:11 - The 5 Types of Scales 03:04 - Bb Dominant 7th Chord 03:54 - Mixolydian Mode 04:57 - Mixolydian b6 06:00 - Lydian Dominant 06:36 - Modes of the Melodic Minor 07:44 - Phrygian Dominant 09:01 - Modes of the Harmonic Minor Scale 09:42 - Altered Dominant or Super Locrian 11:54 - Pentatonic Scales - Major & Minor 13:01 - Blues Scales - Major & Minor 15:20 - Exotic Scales 15:37 - Whole Tone Scale 17:18 - Half-Whole Diminished Scale 19:43 - Melakartha Ragas 22:44 - Carnatic Intervals 24:43 - Western vs Eastern (Indian) Music 26:15 - Conclusion 📧 Customised & 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

Understand the music theory of Dotted Notes (Quarters & Quavers) and then practice a chord progression on the Piano with a lot of rhythm patterns to train your hand independence. 📚 Notation of each exercise & my handwritten notes are waiting for you on our Patreon (5$) - https://www.patreon.com/posts/116110189?pr=true Practice Dotted Crotchets & Quavers with both block chords & arpeggios in the RH while the Left Hand supports with chord roots played as pulse notes, double speed and dotted notes. We use a simple 4 chord progression and focus on essential practice tips - internalising the rhythm & using body percussion. All this over a 3/4 meter. 👉🏼🏡Visit our Channel for more Tutorials & Performances - https://geni.us/NathanielYouTube 🥁 Improving your Sense of Rhythm - https://youtu.be/JZ-qrS88mBs 🎼 How to Read, Play & Count ANY Rhythm 🥁 - https://youtu.be/NzWhPzCtJwg 💃🏽 Rhythm Concepts - Tresillo vs Hemiola - https://youtu.be/l2z40W3_b7k 🎓 Learn Music With Nathaniel School of Music & Jason Zac: https://www.nathanielschool.com/ 📇 Courses, Workshops, Videos, or Private lessons: https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 🎼 Register for our virtual workshops & lessons: https://geni.us/UpcomingClasses 📹 Our Video Courses (Lifetime Bundle): https://www.nathanielschool.com/members-videos 🎶 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 📧 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

In this Beginner Piano lesson, we learn a simple way to transform a melody using different time feels. Also, learn how Rhythm can also have it’s own emotion⁉️ 📚 Download staff notation & my handwritten notes for the 2 part series and support us on Patreon (5$) - https://www.patreon.com/posts/keys-to-piano-126781532 In Part 2, we look at beat displacement from 2 perspectives - anticipation & delay. We take the same set of notes from Part 1 and move them over the Quaver, Triplet & Sixteenth note time grid. 👀 Watch Part 1 here: https://youtu.be/14-MkWO_eZ4 🥁 All things Rhythm - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT8AILe58QHSRI7c3I6LKcWI 🏄 Legato and Staccato🏋🏽‍♀️ on the Piano - https://youtu.be/TwjBmXXS0oA 🎸 Improvise using Accented Phrases 🎼 - https://youtu.be/5NYUgXKqXiM 🎤 Dynamics In Music 🎷 - https://youtu.be/AkOp7gHUvvg 📹 Our Video Courses (Lifetime Bundle): https://www.nathanielschool.com/members-videos 📇 Courses, Workshops, Videos, or Private lessons: https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 👉🏼🏡Visit our Channel for more Tutorials & Performances - https://geni.us/NathanielYouTube 🎓 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 00:41 - Major to Relative Minor 03:12 - 6/8 Arpeggio Pattern 03:48 - Add Notes to each Inversion 06:20 - Theory Revision 07:43 - Train the Ear and Sing the Floating Note 09:30 - 1st Inversion 11:24 - 2nd Inversion Arpeggio 13:48 - Different arpeggio combos 14:35 - F Major to D minor 16:23 - Eb Major to C Minor 18:16 - Conclusion 📧 Customised & 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

Using simple 2 chord progressions (cadences), we combine Scalar & Chordal motion to compose & improvise melodies on the fly. 📚 Download my handwritten notes and support us on Patreon for just 5$ a month - https://www.patreon.com/posts/compose-melodies-116559644 Taking Diatonic Harmony from the Minor Scales - Natural, Harmonic & Dorian and using tonic, subdominant & dominant chords, learn how to create melody lines using the notes of the chord as well as the scale in both directions. 👉🏼🏡Visit our Channel for more Tutorials & Performances - https://geni.us/NathanielYouTube 📖 Minor Scale Theory - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT_8KkjOUBofqzyhbgGkROE- 🎶 The Dorian Mode - https://youtu.be/NCFZhIyG0Y8 🙌🏽 All about Harmonic Minor - https://youtu.be/i7dU99lBWAk 🎵 Improvisation - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT-b9x0Hk6hTmgkFoRoHalH_ ✨ Melodic Creation - https://youtu.be/bORVuxwrFGk 🌳 Chord Trees - https://youtu.be/TTT53cPcPJM 🎓 Learn Music With Nathaniel School of Music & Jason Zac: https://www.nathanielschool.com/ 📇 Courses, Workshops, Videos, or Private lessons: https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 🎼 Register for our virtual workshops & lessons: https://geni.us/UpcomingClasses 📹 Our Video Courses (Lifetime Bundle): https://www.nathanielschool.com/members-videos 🎶 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 📧 Customised & 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