When playing piano with chords, you can add styling very easy.
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These tips & tricks can be used for playing jazz or any ontemporary music. The exmple I’m using is the song, silentnight,mp3. Here is the music playing a jazz piano style to Silent Night.
Let’s use C chord as an example. The notes in C chord are C-E-G, and are called, the root-3rd & 5th tones.
1. Play the root & 5th (C & G) in the left hand, on low C & G.
This is played on beat 1
2. Next, move the left hand up around middle C and play the C chord, in any preferred inversion.
Left hand example.
Now, let’s put this hands together:
Lesson # 1, Tips and Tricks for the right hand.
In the arrangement:
1. Add tones to the right hand
2. Added the Bb Scale in the intro and ending 1
3. Opened up the right hand harmony
4. Add a run in the ending
These lessons are all in the Intermediate Piano Lessons, teaching
“What to do with those scales & chords, Styling and Arranging”
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