Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in 4 Crazy ways! (Video Piano Lesson)
Any song would work really, so I chose a song everyone is familiar with to see the different flavors it has when we use different patterns on the piano. The examples we’ve been talking about are blues, rock, swing, bossa. If you use just a few patterns from jazz, rock or swing it starts to become a song in that style…
Its up to you to decide how to use some of these ideas! I’ll keep showing you examples.
Here is a video covering what we talked about in the last blog post:
“What songs can you apply these patterns to?”
Celine had a great idea to do some reggae! but unfortuneately the video was already finished before I could add a reggae example. I’ll be sure to add more reggae patterns in future lessons!
HI!
THANK YOU FOR THE LESSONS
DO U COMPOSE YOUR OWN SONG? HAVE YOU EVER DONE AN ALBUM?
Cyril
Hi Cyril!
I am working on an album at the moment,
I would describe it as alternative piano rock.
I will give it away for free to the people on my mailinglist when it comes out!
I would love to hear what you think of it:
http://www.myspace.com/chrismarx
I wrote & recorded and mixed the lyrics/music and I’m playing and singing the songs. They were made on my computer in my living room with Logic 8.
Thanks!
Chris Marx
Thanks Chris for all the seven lovely songs! I really enjoyed them. Your video and instructions are so clear. Do you have a jazz song that I can learn? Thanks. wonder why you shared so much to us. They may be just little tips but it helps me so much. Grateful!
Lorna!
I think it would be the most useful for a lot of people to show you some jazz patterns, rather than how to play one song.
This way you can use the jazz patterns on any song you choose.
However Van Morrison’s “Moondance” is based off a jazz pattern that would be helpful!
I think I’ll make a video for that in a bit!
Thanks for the support and questions!