I really love the way that you explain everything and every detail. You are really helpful. Thanks for doing everything you do without any interest except for the interest of making musicians.
This is the exact tutorial I wanted to request from you, but couldn't find an easy way to explain it. I've been trying to put melody and chords together in the right hand for a while and needed exactly this kind of guidance. A million trillion thankyou's Adam. Your tutorials have helped me enormously.
Incredible lesson!! using your framework makes this way of playing completely accessible. Have never seen anyone teach like this on you-tube. Absolutely awesome thank you adam
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Haven’t seen anyone who teaches so good. This piece is just what I needed today. It’s so beautiful and warm, plus a perfect timing ❤😊
There is also a good acoustic physics reason for keeping the chords mostly in your right hand. The overtone series starts with larger intervals and goes to smaller ones as they go higher. Voicing the chords this way mirrors that structure. If you have small intervals of thirds and fourthsin the low end, they will sound muddy. Those intervals, even dissonant intervals in the upper register, merely sound colorful.
Adam, awesome. I watch most of your lessons and time permitting give as many a go as possible. Your Amazing Grace one was well, amazing! I loved learning that and it gave the foundation that I could then work with and try and be creative. Been waiting for another of those and here we go. Amazing really. Lots to learn here before Part 2. Thanks man, much appreciated. Will get on your waiting list.
Great moments throughout. I do have the sense I’m in there and you are sharing with me, the process. This has gone in my “must do” lessons. Thanks so much!
This video is excellent! I really like how you walk through the creation. I am not going to download the music as I really want to learn the sound and shapes - something that I have always wanted to do. This is a great Christmas present and I'm looking forward to going back over this video piece by piece and getting shapes and chord progressions. I like your assembling concept. I'm very much looking forward to your new course in 2025!
Hello! Thanks Adam for this beautiful arrangement. I like the 7th chords you play with a bass note left hand + triad for right hand. And the diminished chords too. It makes it easier ( at least for me ... ) 😊
💥💥 I am learning piano to hopefully one day lead worship and thankyou you have just answered a question I have been asking myself for a while as to how to add the melody whilst playing the chords. The little pinky action is awesome, as a Newby would never have thought of that. 😁xx
Wow, all this and it's just Part 1??? I will take this bit by bit but I fear the Hoildays will be behind me by the time I start to play it recognizably!
As usual, this was another one of your great skill demos. But... one thing deserves a conversation... you really like dirty chords. We agreed in the past that those are (can be) used to announce the cord/harmony change that follows and/or similar emotion/mood inflection points... and all that only to resolve the dirty moments with coming back to a clear spectrum cord in the end. This has to do with the biology of a normal (healthy) ear. All that can be explained with the audio spectrum frequency components. If you always tend to play dirty cords, through the whole melody (music story), you are either not liking the genre or trying to be different (mocking) at any cost.... well maybe both at the same time. There is also the old saying ..."less is more sometimes" (with artists, it should be repeated more than often).
@@shalomjosuella5818 Thanks for responding... Again, I am a subscribed fan, as I appreciate your skill and a gift to explain your points. It greatly benefits my basic music playing drive. Any chord that includes components closer than 1.5 tones (7th is one of them). History called major chords happy for a very simple reason (chords include tones with minimum 2 tones apart). Spectrum analysis shows a lot more components, that one can hear, when C and D are played together vs when C and E are played together, for instance. Jazz music is the champion of dirty chords (almost total absence of majors and even minors). Some accordion player told me years ago that he always plays only the DIM line because it is "close enough", as he was confused with major, minor and 7th rows. I am not a musician but I have studied the Acoustics of Human Hearing...that helped me understand why people perceive some chord progressions happy and the other ones sad or even disturbingly drifting and wandering away, like unstable people in a mental asylum.
Nice.. Waiting eagerly for your course. What you show here is the way I usually approch a song: Bass in left hand, chords and melody in the right. Only you do it differently so that I can learn something new to use. My own take on Silent Night ended up as a country version with bass walks etcera.
Adam I've been trying to follow your lessons, but always too busy, I've broke my right clavicle, so I can follow this now but can't play it, boo hoo. I've put it in my save folder. Really must get going in the new year.
@thekeyscoach thank you for doing a Christmas song and I love this format. A Christmas / holiday song series would be awesome. My goal would be to have a group of these songs that I could do in this format with the melody there for people to sing along with to keep in tune or as a solo piece. However, I do have an issue. I play this song by ear, and it normally doesn't contain the Dm7 or Am7 and it throws me off when I attempt to play it using your sheet music / method. Could you explain the how and why you added those chords?
Great idea Jeremy! I guess you could think of those two chords as chord substitutions - meaning they are not the usual chords, but they still fit with the melody. It’s a way of ‘reharmonising’ to put your own spin on the music
Hi there! Thanks for the framework! But when I try to play a song fully by ear "discovering" or "getting" the melody comes first, meaning that a list of perfectly chosen chords, including diminished ones, doesn't fall on my lap out of the blue as you suggest in the video. Probably you have them already in your head or have some chords tablature and just play them, then go for the tune and finally the inversions or fingering but if you could (even if not on a holiday's tune, of course) do the process beginning with "After humming the song I've found the melody of this tune... Let's choose chords for it and then go crazy to put a cherry on top of it all" would be really awesome (and more like the process, I think, usually goes when beginning to play the piano and trying to play a song fully by ear). 😉 Merry Christmas! 🌲😉
I really love the way that you explain everything and every detail. You are really helpful.
Thanks for doing everything you do without any interest except for the interest of making musicians.
¡¡¡Excelente explicación!!!...
Hay tantos videos, pero pocos con esta tremenda propuesta...
Just sing it…you sound great
This is the exact tutorial I wanted to request from you, but couldn't find an easy way to explain it. I've been trying to put melody and chords together in the right hand for a while and needed exactly this kind of guidance. A million trillion thankyou's Adam. Your tutorials have helped me enormously.
You're very welcome!
Perfect tutorial, I learn a lot new things. Thank you very much Adam. I´m follow you from Norway the last Sunday in 2024.👍😀
Amazing! Thanks for following - would love to visit Norway one day!
Wow. “So round, so firm, so fully packed!” Great lesson - and only part one!? This is like a special Christmas gift! Thank you, Adam.
Glad you enjoyed it Guy! Thanks!
This is exactly how my worship pastor was recommending me to practice. Great lesson. Thank you.
Awesome! Glad you found it useful!
Thankl you for teaching. And merry chrismas for anbody here
Cant wait for part 2… and your new course!
Beautiful harmonisation !
Thanks!
Incredible lesson!! using your framework makes this way of playing completely accessible. Have never seen anyone teach like this on you-tube. Absolutely awesome thank you adam
Cheers Joe! Much appreciated! 🙌
Thanks!
I love how U introduced your technique, to get ur students learn and understand more…. Faster and easier for them to play on 👏👍
Thanks!
@ 🙏👍thanks for ur reply … I’m a fan…😄
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Haven’t seen anyone who teaches so good. This piece is just what I needed today. It’s so beautiful and warm, plus a perfect timing ❤😊
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Excellent lesson. Thanks, Adam. Great teaching method...... 👍
Thanks Paul! Glad you enjoyed!
Fantastic, love it. So much to learn from for a beginner like me. 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Great teacher.
Thank you! 😃
wish i could give this vid a 10000 likes, awesome tech
There is also a good acoustic physics reason for keeping the chords mostly in your right hand. The overtone series starts with larger intervals and goes to smaller ones as they go higher. Voicing the chords this way mirrors that structure. If you have small intervals of thirds and fourthsin the low end, they will sound muddy. Those intervals, even dissonant intervals in the upper register, merely sound colorful.
Great point! Thanks Peter!
brilliant picked up so many tips from you. i liked the concept of calling out the chord, chord, melody and that diminished chords sounded lovely
Glad you enjoyed! Lots in this one!
Thanks for your great channel, content and approach!
You're welcome Henry! Glad you're enjoying the videos!
Adam, awesome. I watch most of your lessons and time permitting give as many a go as possible. Your Amazing Grace one was well, amazing! I loved learning that and it gave the foundation that I could then work with and try and be creative. Been waiting for another of those and here we go. Amazing really. Lots to learn here before Part 2. Thanks man, much appreciated. Will get on your waiting list.
Thanks! Yes this is on the same path as the Amazing Grace video in lots of ways - hope it helps!
This was an amazing training video. Can't wait to get started on this one. Would love to see more like this. Thanks so much Adam.
Part 2 coming this Friday!
I’m getting better at playing my chords. Thank you for your amazing teaching!!
Awesome!
Great moments throughout. I do have the sense I’m in there and you are sharing with me, the process. This has gone in my “must do” lessons.
Thanks so much!
Great to hear that! Thanks!
This video is excellent! I really like how you walk through the creation. I am not going to download the music as I really want to learn the sound and shapes - something that I have always wanted to do. This is a great Christmas present and I'm looking forward to going back over this video piece by piece and getting shapes and chord progressions. I like your assembling concept. I'm very much looking forward to your new course in 2025!
Thanks Allegra! Glad you enjoyed the video! Part 2 out next week!
Wonderful lesson, as usual. Can't wait for part 2.
Will be with you next Friday!
Merry Christmas Coach.................. many thanks!
Thanks Julian! You too!
Thank you so much Coach❤ really helpful 😊
You’re welcome Joel!
Merry Christmas thanks you
Thanks Johnny!
This is so awesome!
Thank you so much for this!
You're so welcome!
I loved this format Adam, happy holidays and happy new year
Wishing you so much success and fulfilment with the new course
Thanks Ethan! Glad you enjoyed! Hope all is well with you!!
God bless your soul❤❤❤❤❤ You're great thank you
You’re welcome!
Amazing
Hello! Thanks Adam for this beautiful arrangement. I like the 7th chords you play with a bass note left hand + triad for right hand. And the diminished chords too. It makes it easier ( at least for me ... )
😊
Thanks Adrian - glad you found it useful!
Very helpful content for me trying to get ready for Christmas tunes
You’re welcome Mel!
Also, would love for you to do more pop, jazz, blues songs like this too.
💥💥 I am learning piano to hopefully one day lead worship and thankyou you have just answered a question I have been asking myself for a while as to how to add the melody whilst playing the chords. The little pinky action is awesome, as a Newby would never have thought of that. 😁xx
Glad you found the video useful Wendy!
Wow, all this and it's just Part 1??? I will take this bit by bit but I fear the Hoildays will be behind me by the time I start to play it recognizably!
I’m thinking this is how jazz players who’ve had no lessons just play what they hear in their heads.
Hey mate, what is the ETA for "The Creative Piano Roadmap"?
Hi! WE haven't officially announced the launch date yet, but we're aiming for late February/March. Hope that helps! It's on the way!
As usual, this was another one of your great skill demos.
But... one thing deserves a conversation... you really like dirty chords. We agreed in the past that those are (can be) used to announce the cord/harmony change that follows and/or similar emotion/mood inflection points... and all that only to resolve the dirty moments with coming back to a clear spectrum cord in the end. This has to do with the biology of a normal (healthy) ear. All that can be explained with the audio spectrum frequency components.
If you always tend to play dirty cords, through the whole melody (music story), you are either not liking the genre or trying to be different (mocking) at any cost.... well maybe both at the same time.
There is also the old saying ..."less is more sometimes" (with artists, it should be repeated more than often).
You're pointing at the 7ths?? I'd like to understand what you call dirty chords
@@shalomjosuella5818 Thanks for responding... Again, I am a subscribed fan, as I appreciate your skill and a gift to explain your points. It greatly benefits my basic music playing drive.
Any chord that includes components closer than 1.5 tones (7th is one of them). History called major chords happy for a very simple reason (chords include tones with minimum 2 tones apart). Spectrum analysis shows a lot more components, that one can hear, when C and D are played together vs when C and E are played together, for instance. Jazz music is the champion of dirty chords (almost total absence of majors and even minors). Some accordion player told me years ago that he always plays only the DIM line because it is "close enough", as he was confused with major, minor and 7th rows.
I am not a musician but I have studied the Acoustics of Human Hearing...that helped me understand why people perceive some chord progressions happy and the other ones sad or even disturbingly drifting and wandering away, like unstable people in a mental asylum.
you've got to still do this Christmas
Nice.. Waiting eagerly for your course. What you show here is the way I usually approch a song: Bass in left hand, chords and melody in the right. Only you do it differently so that I can learn something new to use. My own take on Silent Night ended up as a country version with bass walks etcera.
Thanks Tom! Really glad you found this useful!
You should do a few videos on how to create backing tracks, etc.
Adam I've been trying to follow your lessons, but always too busy, I've broke my right clavicle, so I can follow this now but can't play it, boo hoo. I've put it in my save folder. Really must get going in the new year.
Sorry to hear that Sue - hopefully you can get going with the videos in the New Year.
@thekeyscoach thank you for doing a Christmas song and I love this format. A Christmas / holiday song series would be awesome. My goal would be to have a group of these songs that I could do in this format with the melody there for people to sing along with to keep in tune or as a solo piece. However, I do have an issue. I play this song by ear, and it normally doesn't contain the Dm7 or Am7 and it throws me off when I attempt to play it using your sheet music / method. Could you explain the how and why you added those chords?
Great idea Jeremy! I guess you could think of those two chords as chord substitutions - meaning they are not the usual chords, but they still fit with the melody. It’s a way of ‘reharmonising’ to put your own spin on the music
Hi there! Thanks for the framework! But when I try to play a song fully by ear "discovering" or "getting" the melody comes first, meaning that a list of perfectly chosen chords, including diminished ones, doesn't fall on my lap out of the blue as you suggest in the video.
Probably you have them already in your head or have some chords tablature and just play them, then go for the tune and finally the inversions or fingering but if you could (even if not on a holiday's tune, of course) do the process beginning with "After humming the song I've found the melody of this tune... Let's choose chords for it and then go crazy to put a cherry on top of it all" would be really awesome (and more like the process, I think, usually goes when beginning to play the piano and trying to play a song fully by ear). 😉
Merry Christmas! 🌲😉
The download button does not work! Neither on iphone nor on ipad!
Explain : hand might come up and “do a little voicing”😊
"Dude, can you play us a Christmas Carol on piano?"
_Wait for me to cue up the backing track._
"What about your left hand?"
My pinky has a mind of it’s own at times 🤦♂️
i find this confusing wouldn't it be best to work from a chord chart?
Kick drum? Bass drum
It's Christmas, not xmas. Merry Christmas and I hope you have a wonderful New Year!
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