New age piano music - cool sounds!: "
Don't Let Anyone Tell You That You Can't

Make
Cool Sounds
On Any Keyboard
Without Knowing a Thing About Music!
You Really Can!

Dear Friend:
I have recently recorded a video which can be used by anybody -- even people who have never touched their hands to the keyboard!
As you may know, I have taught piano for 30 years and I'm a firm believer in learning to read music, understand music theory, and really master the keyboard. I'm no fan of mindless 'shortcuts' because I know that in the long run they don't work -- you've got to have understanding.
But I also know that there are many people that would LOVE to be able to make their own 'pleasant sounds' on the piano, just for their own satisfaction and amusement. They know full well that they will never be full-blown piano players, but still, they would like to sit down now and then and must make some sounds on the keyboard that sound good, feel good, and give satisfaction to them and/or their family.
I understand that. My own Dad wasn't a pianist by any means, yet when I was a little guy he used to sit down at the piano for a half-hour on a Saturday evening and play some kind of chording pattern that just delighted my Mom and my brother and I. I guess you know that if I could call him back from Heaven and have him play that again for me, I wouldn't trade the entire London Symphony for that half-hour.
And so for those people who just want to make some nice sounds on the piano (or keyboard or organ or synthesizer -- it doesn't matter what kind of keyboard) I have created this video course.
We use NO printed music, of course. All you will do
is sit at your piano or keyboard and watch my hands on
my piano, and do what I do. Of course I will be talking
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New age piano music - cool sounds!



Don't Let Anyone Tell You That You Can't



Make

Cool Sounds

On Any Keyboard

Without Knowing a Thing About Music!

You Really Can!



Dear Friend:

I have recently recorded a video which can be used by anybody -- even people who have never touched their hands to the keyboard!

As you may know, I have taught piano for 30 years and I'm a firm believer in learning to read music, understand music theory, and really master the keyboard. I'm no fan of mindless "shortcuts" because I know that in the long run they don't work -- you've got to have understanding.

But I also know that there are many people that would LOVE to be able to make their own "pleasant sounds" on the piano, just for their own satisfaction and amusement. They know full well that they will never be full-blown piano players, but still, they would like to sit down now and then and must make some sounds on the keyboard that sound good, feel good, and give satisfaction to them and/or their family.

I understand that. My own Dad wasn't a pianist by any means, yet when I was a little guy he used to sit down at the piano for a half-hour on a Saturday evening and play some kind of chording pattern that just delighted my Mom and my brother and I. I guess you know that if I could call him back from Heaven and have him play that again for me, I wouldn't trade the entire London Symphony for that half-hour.

And so for those people who just want to make some nice sounds on the piano (or keyboard or organ or synthesizer -- it doesn't matter what kind of keyboard) I have created this video course.

We use NO printed music, of course. All you will do

is sit at your piano or keyboard and watch my hands on

my piano, and do what I do. Of course I will be talking

and explaining what I am doing, but even if you had the

sound turned off you could still follow what my hands

are doing.

There is a style of music which is quite popular these days known as "new age" music. It tries to capture the sounds of nature -- water flowing, nature, birds -- that sort of thing. It is very descriptive music, and very relaxing. It's fun to play, too, because there are really no "wrong answers" -- anything that sounds nice and pleasant is "right". I'm going to show you on the video how these sounds are created using simple patterns -- patterns that can be repeated in various places & ways.

I'm going to show you how to create 15 different sound patterns. I have named these sound patterns:

Cascading Waterfalls

Wind in the Forest

Rainbow after Storm

Oriental Gardens

Hide & Seek

Carnival Fun

Classical Sounds

Stroll in a Meadow

Peaceful Morning

Walk-the-Stairs Boogie

Playful Kittens

Christmas Morning

Gentle Waves

Remembering Daddy

Dinkin' Around!

.....and then after you learn each sound pattern, I'll show you how to link those sound patterns together in various ways so that you can create your own song, your own little symphony, your own creation, that expresses the feelings that you want to express.

Cordially,

Duane

PS Even if you have played piano for years, you might just learn something new about patterns & linking --I've played piano for more years than I care to remember, and I got some new ideas for myself just by creating this video!

Order here right now!





Want to make "new age" sounds without knowing anything at all about music?

"Make Cool Sounds On Any Keyboard!"



Don't let anyone tell you that you can't make cool sounds on the piano or any keyboard without knowing a thing about music! It's really true -- if you have five fingers on each hand and can play every other note on a keyboard, you can make some really pleasant, relaxing sounds on the piano or keyboard. On this two-hour video course, Duane demonstrates 18 simple patterns you can do, then shows you how to link them together to make your own creation. Great music? Hardly. But satisfying and pleasant and relaxing? You bet. Create your own "new age music" without knowing a thing about music!

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Piano tabs -- chord symbols

Piano Tabs: Shorthand Chord Symbols


Piano tabs are like shorthand: instead of using written music notation, symbols are used instead to indicate what chords are being used (or in primitive cases, what melody notes are being used).

Piano tabs have been used forever by musicians in one form or another. Bach used them -- but then they were called "figured bass". They looked something like this:

I I6 V7 ii6/4 ii I etc.

Roman numerals were used to indicate the primary and secondary chords of a song, and when they were inverted. A "I" chord meant the "home base" chord -- also known as the tonic chord of a key. A "V" meant the chord 5 scale notes higher than the I chord. A "IV" meant the chord 4 scale notes above the tonic. "6/4" after a Roman numeral indicated that the chord should be played in 2nd inversion: "6" after a Roman numeral meant that the first inversion of the chord should be used.

Now fast forward to 1950 or so when modern jazz was coming on the scene in places like "Birdland" in NY, with people like Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. They used piano tabs too, except then they were called chord symbols. Jazz musicians would often play "head arrangements" of familiar tunes and indicate the chord changes on a "lead sheet", which usually consisted of the tune of the song with the chord symbols written above the melody line.

They looked like this:

Fm7 Bbm7 Eb7 Abmaj7 Db G7 C etc.

Fast forward another 50 years or so to the Rock Era, and we arrive at piano tabs as we know them today.


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Piano Runs & Fills Galore!

"Cocktail" Runs --The lightning fast runs used by the great "show" pianists. One hand runs, two hand runs, open-octave runs, tremolo-blasted runs, cascading waterfall runs and more. Made famous by such names as Eddy Duchin, Carman Caballero, Liberace, etc., but also used tastefully by many others, such as Roger Williams and many "pop" piano players. You get a "Capsule Summary Sheet" of Cocktail Runs in print, plus the CD. (If you don't want the entire course, you can order this separately at the bottom of this page.)