This is a wonderful work of animation and poetry! I love all the internal rhyme and wordplay. Plus its about cats and pianos!!! What better subject matter? Its about 7minutes long.
Enjoy!!! But don’t get any ideas about making a cat piano at home…
I’ll begin posting more lessons soon! I’ve been really focused lately on practicing and recovering from fun ulcerative colitis/crohn’s issues.
Stay tuned!!!
This lesson is a quickie!!!
This will help you become one of the fastest piano players in the west!!! …or the east if thats where you live. If you live in the south, sorry you’re out of luck. 
You don’t have to be able to play all those chords in 30 seconds, but it does help when you try an learn a new song. When learning a new song, you don’t get stuck on how to play the chord among the 50 million other things you have to learn, your only worry is what chord comes next. So just time yourself and make sure that you can find each chord in both hands fairly quickly!
I remember that it took me quite a few weeks to practice this and see a lot of improvement. Some of my piano students who practiced a little bit everyday have accomplished this goal to be able to play all their major triads in under 30 seconds in one week though!
They usually play them in this order because its fast: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, Ab, Bb, Db, Eb, F#. That’s useful, but eventually you’ll want to challenge yourself so you keep improving your reaction time and you’re not just practicing a routine. The circle of 5ths shown below is another pattern that you can play your chords in!
The image below is the famous circle of fifths. It is a great way to make sure you get through all 12 keys when you’re practicing. Its called the circle of fifths because each chord is a 5th apart. Its a good challenge to find chords that leap so far apart.
I just wanted to get a feel for how many people online read music! Of course there are different kinds of reading music.
Some people can only read chords symbols or just a few of the notes on treble clef. I tried to accommodate all the possible answers, but if you don’t fit in anywhere, just write something in the "other" field or the comments! After answering, the poll shows all the information it has collected and will tell you how many can read music!
This was a paid request to help someone learn Ray Charles rendition of Everyday I have the blues. The song follows the 12 bar blues with a lot of really tasty ray charles fills and variations throughout the whole song. The first 30 seconds of the song just have Ray playing solo piano as an introduction. This video slows down the licks from the first 15 seconds of the video. SKIP AHEAD TO 1:10 IN THE VIDEO TO SEE MY TRANSCRIPTION OF RAY’S LICKS SLOWED DOWN.
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PART 2 of EVERYDAY I HAVE THE BLUES - RAY CHARlES - VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION
Pick one or two of these licks and learn them really well then transpose it to the key of C so you can get even more use out of them by using them in a blues in C! Transposing it from the key of Bb to the key of C requires you to move every note up one whole step. This is because the keys Bb and C are one whole step apart. Stay tuned for more on this great song! We’ll be working on some good chord voicings for the 3 chords in a Bb blues: Bb7, Eb7 and F7.
I’ve been in poor health for the past 2-3 weeks… I’ll need to hold off making any new lessons until I get better!
Feel free to keep asking questions though and I’ll try to share some insight 
