Introducing The Talented Keyboard Prodigy With Advanced Keyboard Lessons

Learning to play the keyboard takes a lot of time and work. Many factors affect your learning to play the keyboard such as the kind of teacher and your personality towards him or her, the time you spend in devoting yourself to play and many more.

Your eagerness and effort to play the keyboard is a big deal in working your way to be a better keyboardist. When a keyboardist first looks in a new piece there are usual challenges that must be figured out before you perform. You should choose your piece well so you could understand and play at ease.

Being an advanced keyboard player has a lot of advantages. One is you can easily play the tune of a piece by just hearing it. You can easily adapt to the beat of the song and you can even play comfortably without looking at the chords. Here are some tips for you to have a nice, relaxing keyboard playing.

Practice makes perfect as they say. Being an advanced keyboard player takes a lot of attitude and work. If you want to achieve a good performance, you should try your best to develop your skills in keyboard and most important believe in yourself and your effort in making a good rhythm.

Going further and stepping up to a higher advanced keyboard lessons, here are some of the skills that you can learn: 

Chord progressions

      Chord progressions are series of chords which is very helpful in harmonizing songs. The key of C Major, keep in mind that C,E,G uses the I chord. Also take note that this will be the root position.

Practice keeping the rhythm even if you play only a portion of the song. Don’t rush things up just play the beat until you learn how to follow the flow of the song. Appreciate what you are learning and you will benefit the song.

Adding harmony

      You can always use chords in adding harmony to a melody and it can be done in many different ways. This lesson teaches some examples and put it into practice using the chords in different keys.

      Afterwards, you will be able to classify the chords on whether you will need a I (One) or a IV (Four) or a V7 (Five-Seven) that will perfectly match with the notes. You will be surprise that you can even find a variety of your own in adding harmony to your songs. You will also learn in this lesson the use of chords in different ways to harmonize 3/4 time, 6/8 time, and 4/4 time. 

Some of the piece that will help you on this lesson are as follows:

      “Oom Pah in 4/4 Time” – you can use this simple piece to blend with many melodies. It is advisable that you use the three notes C Major triad in creating “Oom Pah” with the left hand.

      “Skipping Up and Down the Hills” in 4/4 time – Take note that using the Major triads to play a note on each beat of the measure is important.

      “Climbing to the Tenth” – this keyboard piece makes a very nice harmony. It can also be played in a 3/4 time.

      “Broken Triads” – it is perfect to harmonize songs in 6/8 time.

Enriching the Melody

      This method helps in making the melody sound fuller. You can use variations by adding some chords with inversions and the melody as the top note of the chord.

Intervals

      It is the distance from one tone to another. Intervals can be seen as named by first, second, and other ordinal words. Major interval is one form. You will learn to play them, sing them, and hear them in these lessons.

The first step in learning this lesson is to learn playing and singing the C Major scale.