Thanks for your web presence and piano lessons. For myself as an intermediate student, I find your videos most helpful. Currently, I’m wearing out your videos that contain references to Ray Charles as I have moved from show tunes to Bloooze.
I haven’t interrogated your entire program, but plan to. Your level of detail is very helpful as I make notes relative to your instructions and try to emulate your very classy playing.
My short range goal is to go heavier into blues with particular interest in New Orleans style trad jazz. A particular favorite is the iconic Professor Longhair, though I’m also interested in the stylings of Allen Toussaint and the riffing of Dr. John.
Beyond that, I would like to be able to play with the enthusiasm and projection of joy as evidenced by Fats Waller. But first things first.
Your lessons have been most helpful; I feel I’m progressing by using your videos and am most thankful for your generous web presence.

Again, many thanks.
Let me know where I can send a donation.

Mark Moorhead
Vallejo, CA
stepneydragon@gmail.com

I love your on line videos. I love the Ray Charles type piano and my favorite is
“I Cant Stop Loving You” Would love to learn this style and apply it to other country songs like “Your Cheating Heart” etc. I can play in C F G and to pick up this one in B flat will take a little doing but it is good to expand your comfort zone.
Would love an on line course that combines some country, Ray Charles type music which if probably Southern Gospel along with some good 50s songs.
This would be a great course…..
Best regards - John

I really appreciate your work. Are you going to release a comprehensive course we can buy? After years of being stuck to sheet music, I like your method of learning by ear.

One thing I’d like to see is a suggested practice routine. Of course, I spent years every day, doing half an hour of boring scales. I’d love something more innovative. E.g., a drill for practicing chord inversions that gets progressively more difficult. Another for working around the Circle of Fifths, etc. That stuff that lets you “see” what you’re playing with your fingers, not your eyes I’ve had tiny glimpses of what this feels like, and it’s amazing. This is my first week of not being stuck to sheet music! I now call notation “insects on the page.”

Thanks for everything so far.

My daughter has crohnes. I know exacty what you are going through.

I learned piano chords by using 2nd inversion chords ie. C gce. Can you offer sugestions.

Patrick

Thanks for all the lessons! I’m really learning a lot from your videos. I do have a request, though. When you demonstrate licks - I’m currently working on your version of “Great Balls of Fire” - would it be possible for you to show which beats the notes fall on? I know this sounds lame, but my right-left hand independence is not that great, and when the left hand is doing a relatively complicated boogie-woogie pattern, I have a difficult time synchronizing the right hand lick with the left hand pattern. I especially like your C7 “rolliing chord” lick in the solo, but I’m having trouble duplicating it on my own without knowing how to count it out. It would really help me a lot! Thanks again for all the great stuff and hope you’re feeling better!

I’m working on putting together something that will be very helpful for online students of piano… but practicing for dueling pianos and playing really takes up a lot of my time. I’ll send an email out once I have something I can be proud of putting my name on.

Thanks for the feedback, Ray Charles rocks!!

Chris Marx