Do you get bored playing your only Chord Movements for too long? With the diminished scales, you can add flavour to your movements and sound more melodious. What are Diminished Scales? They are scales played majorly over a Diminished Chord. If you don’t know what a diminished chord is, check out […]
Hello everyone, It has been a really long time and I am sorry about that. I have spent quite a number of years playing the Piano, for more than half of these years I have been practicing wrongly which in turn greatly affected me. This series is not only limited to […]
Welcome to this third post in this series. It has been a while though and I apologize for such delay. In case you are just joining you can check out previous lessons here. The First here and the Second here By Now, if you have been following the series from the […]
Welcome to the Second Post in the series “Practical Way to Play all 12 keys”, in case you missed the first post, you can check it out here. In this post we will be looking at the major scales and the Chromatic Scale (“major Scales!!!” Yeah, Major Scales). Just as how […]
If you are reading this, I congratulate you because you are on your way to becoming a better and confident pianist that doesn’t rely on the transpose button. Okay, I would really like to talk a bit about myself (musically of course). My Names are Olowu Daniel. I started playing […]
“How do you get to play on all keys”? I have been asked this questions like a billion time(that’s obviously an exaggeration though). Most Pianist I meet tell me on how they have tried to achieved this (Practiced vigorously) for quite a long while but then gave up along the way. […]
Hi Guys, Its been a while here.. I apologize for the break. I will continue the series on PIANO CHORDS. If you are new here, you can check out the previous topic in the series here. In this lesson, we will be looking at the Half Diminished Seventh Chords, Dominant Seventh […]
Now that you’ve gotten a comprehensive look at how to form intervals, scales, and foundational chords, let’s take it a step further by expanding our chords. If you are new in this series. Check out the previous lessons.. PIANO CHORDS 1: THE FOUNDATION OF CHORDS OR PIANO CHORDS 2: DIMINISHED AND AUGMENTED CHORDS We will be studying the below 7th chords but in this lesson, we will discuss the first four Major seventh chord Minor seventh chord Diminished seventh chord Augmented major seventh chord Half-Diminished seventh chord […]
In our previous lesson, we looked at the foundation of chords. In this lesson, we will move a step further, treating the Diminished Chords Diminished Triad Piano Chord Chord Type: Diminished triad Formula: 1+♭3+♭5
As simple as this may sound, I get disappointed when I meet pianist who has spent years playing the piano and yet they lack the basic fundamentals of chords. In this post we’re going to explore the foundation of piano chords “Notes create scales, scales create chords, chords create progressions, and […]