Just Imagine That Big Choir

Notation Main Theme Left Hand Variations Main Theme   Left Hand Variations Lesson Notes and Resources Intro Skills Tips Intro Creatives, This pattern is just out and out fun for me. Its a tried and tested chord progression with a tried and tested feel. It aint original by by stretch but thats ok. Its instantly…

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Loading Up On That Tension And Resolve (Part 1)

Notation Section 1 Section 1 (LH Movement) Section 2 Section 2 (LH Movement) Section 1   Section 1 (LH Movement) Section 2 Section 2 (LH Movement) Lesson Notes and Resources Intro Tips Resources Intro Creative, The concept of tension and resolve is a well known and often used songwriting / music writing technique. The general…

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Blues Series – Pattern 6

Notation Pattern 6 Pattern 6 (Fancy Ending) Pattern 6   Pattern 6 (Fancy Ending)   Lesson Notes and Resources Intro Skills Tips Resources Intro Welcome to pattern 2 in the blues collection. In this pattern we are going to expand on what we started with in pattern 1. If you remember in pattern 1, it…

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Blues Series – Pattern 1

Notation Pattern 1 Pattern 1   Lesson Notes and Resources Intro Skills Tips Resources Intro Welcome to pattern 1 in the Blues series In structuring this course, I wanted to achieve 2 things. First, to simply give you 30 patterns which you could take away, learn and have fun with. Second, structuring the patterns in…

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Blues Series – Pattern 2

Notation Pattern 2 Pattern 2   Lesson Notes and Resources Intro Skills Tips Resources Intro Welcome to pattern 2 in the blues collection. In this pattern we are going to expand on what we started with in pattern 1. If you remember in pattern 1, it was very chord based. We had some nice chords…

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Blues Series – Pattern 3

Notation Pattern 3 Pattern 3 Lesson Notes and Resources Intro Skills Tips Resources Intro Welcome to pattern 3 in the blues collection. This is the final pattern in our mini series of boogie woogie patterns. So there are 2 ways to look at what we have here. Firstly, we have a nice and steady progression…

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Blues Series – Pattern 4

Notation Pattern 4 Pattern 4 (Variation) Pattern 4 Pattern 4 (Variation) Lesson Notes and Resources Intro Skills Tips Resources Intro One for the right hand today Creatives. So the idea with pattern 4 and 5 is to explore a different way of getting those skills you need to pull off pattern 6. Thats how they…

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Blues Series – Pattern 5

Notation Pattern 5 (Main Theme 1) Pattern 5 (Main Theme 2) Pattern 5 (Variation) Pattern 5 (Main Theme 1)   Pattern 5 (Main Theme 2) Pattern 5 (Variation) Lesson Notes and Resources Intro Skills Tips Resources Intro Creatives, Wow, a long one here. So long I decided to split the lesson into two videos to…

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Pattern 5

Notation Pattern 5 Pattern 5 (Variation 1) Pattern 5 (Variation 2) Pattern 5 Pattern 5 (Variation 1) Pattern 5 (Variation 2) Lesson Notes and Resources Intro Skills Tips Resources Intro Ah the humble power chord. Such a simple but versatile tool. I think its fastest route for beginners to just sound good and get playing…

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Pattern 6

Notation Pattern 6 Pattern 6 (Variation) Pattern 6   Pattern 6 (Variation) Lesson Notes and Resources Intro Skills Tips Resources Intro Welcome to pattern 6 This is my favourite from the beginner series and shows just how uplifting and melodic we can make those regular standard chords. Using a few tips and tricks of course.…

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