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Description

This course teaches you simple but amazing embellishments that work over most chord progressions. If you are looking for fills, runs, and melodic lines that will make you sound like a Pro, then this is the right course for you.
The course is straightforward and seeks to expose you to several ideas to help you embellish your chord progressions. The concepts are broken down to make them easily understood.
Imagine being able to play all your favorite songs with extra embellishments to spice up the sound without the need to read sheet music? Now you can easily achieve this within weeks not years and without wasting money, time, and effort on traditional Piano Lessons.
You will at least need to know Major and Minor Chords before taking this course. Absolute beginners should take the first few lessons of my absolute beginner course [
The Ultimate Play Piano By Ear Course | Easy Piano Lessons
] before proceeding to this course.
High-Definition Videos and Digital Piano Display
With an overhead camera and light-activated piano roll, you can easily see what fingers are used as well as the exact notes that are being played.
The knowledge obtained from this course can be applied to other genres of music like Pop, Ballad style, Blues, Jazz, Gospel, etc as you are equipped with the knowledge to create your own music.
The course is divided into 9 easy to follow sections:
Grace Notes and Trills
Borrowing Notes from the Preceding Chord
Targetting the 3rd
Fast Trill Embellishments
Melodic Fills
Major, Minor & Chromatic Scales
Runs and Harmonic Fills
Who this course is for:
Beginner Pianists and Keyboardists
Keyboardists looking for simple but amazing fills to spice up their sound
Intermediate Pianists & Keyboardists looking for nice fills to sound like the Pros

What you'll learn

Embellishments for Piano Chord Progressions

Piano Runs to improve your sound

Piano Fills for all Major and Minor Chords

Major Scales and Their Applications

Natural Minor Scales and Their Applications

The Chromatic Scale and Its Applications

Requirements

  • You will need a copy of Adobe XD 2019 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
  • No previous design experience is needed.
  • No previous Adobe XD skills are needed.

Course Content

27 sections • 95 lectures
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1-BEFORE WE DIVE IN
2
1.1-Tip from the Instructor - Maximising this Course
1.2-Let's Get Social
2-THE MAJOR SCALE - SKIP IF YOU ALREADY KNOW
3
2.1-The Major Scale
2.2-Major Scale Fingering
2.3-Basic Applications of the Major Scale
3-GRACE NOTES & TRILLS
5
3.1-Flipping from the 2nd to the 3rd
3.2-Semitone Grace Note to the 3rd
3.3-Semitone Grace Note to the 3rd then 5 or 1
3.4-Sus4 to the Major
3.5-Reversed Chords
4-BORROWING NOTES FROM THE PRECEDING CHORD
4
4.1-Borrowing the “1” of the preceding chord
4.2-Borrowing the “5” of the preceding chord
4.3-Borrowing the “1-5” of the preceding chord
4.4-Borrowing the “1-2-5” of the preceding chord
5-TARGETING THE 3RD
3
5.1-1-2-3 Fill
5.2-5-4-3 Fill
5.3-Preceding 3-2-1 Fill
6-FAST TRILL EMBELISHMENTS
3
6.1-Fast 3-2-1 Trill
6.2-Fast 1-2-3-2-1 Trill
6.3-Fast 4-5-3-2-1 Trill
7-MELODIC FILLS
4
7.1-Right Hand Pedalling on the 5
7.2-7-1-5 Fill
7.3-3-4-1 Fill
7.4-1-7-5 Fill
8-SUPPLEMENTARY LECTURES: SKIP IF YOU ALREADY KNOW
4
8.1-Left Hand Patterns
8.2-Right Hand Patterns
8.3-Finding your chord numbers in All Keys (AMAZING TRICK)
8.4-Using the Sustain Pedal
9-THE CHROMATIC SCALE
2
9.1-The Chromatic Scale
9.2-Basic Applications of the Chromatic Scale
10-THE NATURAL MINOR SCALE
2
10.1-The Natural Minor scale
10.2-Basic Applications of the Natural Minor Scale
11-RUNS & HARMONIC FILLS
3
11.1-6th Harmonic Fill: 1-7-5-3
11.2-6th Harmonic Fill: 4-3-1-6
11.3-4-3-1-5 Run
12-PRACTICE SESSIONS
5
12.1-Hallelujah (DEMO 1)
12.2-Hallelujah (DEMO 2)
12.3-Hallelujah (BREAKDOWN)
12.4-I believe I can fly (DEMO)
12.5-I believe I can fly (BREAKDOWN)