100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know - FREE Workshop with Jerald Simon
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100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know was created to help piano students of all ages and skill levels learn how to improvise and arrange music of their own. The 100 left hand patterns introduced in this book can help piano students, piano teachers, and music professionals take their piano playing to the next level by learning how to play the same song 100 different ways.
The left hand patterns taught in this book have been divided up into four different groups:
1. Basic Left Hand Patterns, 2. Jazz, Blues, and Boogie-Woogie Left Hand Patterns, 3. Rock and Pop Left Hand Patterns, and 4. New Age and Contemporary Left Hand Patterns.
A few years ago I began composing COOL SONGS for my own piano students. It was a way to motivate or inspire them to keep playing the piano through original compositions I composed specifically for them. Learn more about my COOL SONGS at this link on my website: www.musicmotivation.com/learn...
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Thanks for watching my video. I'd love to have you subscribe to my RUclips channel at this link: ruclips.net/user/jeraldsimon - Let me know what kind of video piano lesson you'd like me to create and I will film one for you. The 3 main areas I like to focus on are: 1. Music Theory (Theory Therapy), 2. Improvisation (Innovative Improvisation), and 3. Composition (Creative Composition). I enjoy doing piano tutorials and reviews on music instruments, recording/filming technology, and also helping piano students get ideas for creating and composing music of their own. Leave a comment below and let me know what type of piano tutorial you would like me to create to help you on your musical journey! I have more resources available on my website at: musicmotivation.com/. I'd also love to have you check out my COOL SONGS Series I created to help motivate piano students - especially during their teen years: musicmotivation.com/coolsongs/. I primarily create music for teen piano students and adult piano students. You can learn more about my Essential Piano Exercise course at this link: www.essentialpianoexercises.com. I also teach weekly group online piano lessons to students all over the world in my Essential Piano Lessons series. You can learn more about joining our weekly group online piano lessons at this link: www.essentialpianolessons.com/. I have started teaching a two month long course for piano teachers who are wanting to learn more about how to teach music theory, improvisation, and composition. If you are a piano teacher, you can learn more about my course for piano teachers at this link: www.essentialpianoteachers.com/. If you have a minute, listen to some of my albums on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, or Pandora. Type in my name (Jerald Simon) and you will be able to listen to various albums I have released. Let me know how I can help you on your musical journey! Thanks - Jerald
Jerald Simon - I would love for you to take a worship song like How Great is Our God and arrange it with the different left hand patterns. More on arranging for church songs would be fabulous!
This is absolutely incredible! I've been playing piano for 10 years, mostly by chords and inversions. My world has opened up with my left hand now.
Thank you for your comment. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions about anything. Thanks - Jerald
I bought the pdf set, because I'm a nerd in general and always read manuals. In 24 hours I learned so much, it's really opened up the keyboard for me, and that's exciting because I barely started! I highly recommend Jerald's courses. Silver medal goes to Kent Hewitt if you like jazz.
That is wonderful! Let me know if you have any questions or need help with anything. Thanks for your comment. I’d love your help in spreading the word and letting others know about my books and courses. I appreciate it! Thanks - Jerald
After studying technique, theory and methods; I still had no idea how to apply it. Now I do. Thank you so much! p.s. I already bought your book before seeing this video. I can't wait for it to arrive.
You are welcome! I hope this helps!
Very nice video please continue more and more God bless you sir..
You are a very good teacher, i wished I had piano as a kid so I can compose better.
Thank you so much! Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks - Jerald
* 12.55 with high wrist, the shifts between chords will be much easier.
Thanks for the video, it's really good you wrote this book!
Transposition, that is it 😊😊😄
Great teacher. The best. I want to learn how to play spirituals, hymns, etc. Like how great is our God, amazing Grace. Where do I start.
Just brought your book which is very good, and now found your you tube channel
Thank you!
Please please make the companion 100 drum patterns to go with this book. Find a good drummer to collaborate with you to write the scores that fit every pattern in your book. Then make a youtube series putting the piano and drums together. Great Job Jerald
Thank you! I am looking for a good drummer that I can collaborate with for that. I will keep you posted as we move forward. Thanks again! - Jerald
@@JeraldSimon That would be a powerful duo. And a great tool not only for piano players but for any musician. In general. I look forward to that.
Jerald, I've been playing with this book and having some fun with it, not as easily as you make it seem here however lol. I was wondering if you could elaborate on how you make a major sounding song to a minor sound. You explained briefly here, but it was quick. Sounds wonderful and a good practical idea I'd like to get my head around. Thanks again :)
Marcel, Thanks for the comment. I'm happy to elaborate a little. I'll try not to go too in depth or confuse you (hopefully). I might create a video and share how to do this on my RUclips channel that goes into more detail about it. The easiest way to take any song from a major sounding key signature to a minor sounding one is to take the third, sixth, and seventh tones/notes from the major scale and flat them. This creates the tonic minor (in the key of C Major, C is the tonic). The relative minor for C Major is A minor. The A minor scale was created from the A Major scale and all that was changed or modified was to take the third, sixth, and seventh notes from the A Major scale and flat them. We can do the same thing in any key signature. For example, if I take the key of C Major, for demonstration purposes, I would take the major scale: C D E F G A B C and I would start with C as 1, D as 2, E as 3, F as 4, G as 5, A as 6, B as 7, and C (above) as 8. My 3, 6, and 7th tones from the scale are E, A, and B. If I play E flat, A flat, and B flat, I have simply taken these notes down half a step from E A and B. If I add E flat A flat and B flat to the existing scale, the new minor scale is C D E flat F G A flat B flat and C (technically we are playing the C minor scale - the relative minor to E flat Major, but I don't want to over complicate things). Anytime I have a song in the key of C Major, if I want to make it sound minor, all I need to do is play everything (all the notes in the music) as written but when I see the 3rd (E), 6th (A), and 7th (B) notes from the C Major scale, I will play the flats instead (E flat, A flat, and B flat). You can try it with "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star": In the major key signature the notes are: C C G G A A G F F E E D D C. To make it sound minor, I would play: C C G G A flat A flat G F F E flat E flat D D C. In this first example, we don't play a B, but if I did, I would play a B flat. That is a very basic explanation. I can go more in depth in a video, but, hopefully that helps clarify a little. If not, let me know and I will clarify. Let me know how I can help! Thanks - Jerald
@@JeraldSimon Thank you so much this is great, and I think this makes sense lol, I have to sit down at my keyboard and try it :) Im assuming the same 3 notes that go flat would apply to the chords in the left hand as well? C E G for c would turn in Cminor because the third is flatted? Im sure this would make a great video should you decide to make one :) Thanks again.
@@MarcelRobichaud You are correct. The left hand would play a C minor chord, an F minor chord, and a G minor chord (but you could play a G major chord as well where you play the B natural because you can use the relative minor and the harmonic minor scales when playing a song. The minor chord progression is created from the harmonic minor scale (i.e. A B C D E F G# A if you start on A, or C D E flat F G A flat B C if you start on C). Essentially you are raising the 7th interval from the minor scale to create the harmonic minor scale. I think this would be a great video and will film it later this week. For now, try to play the minor chords with the left hand and apply what I explained in the previous comment about flatting the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes from the scale. Thanks again - Jerald
@@JeraldSimon Beauty! Thank you so much Jerald. I also bought your Essential Exercises book as well and come to realize that I play well in a few keys but I never went through all the keys, yet alone the minor ones. I really love what you do and am debating if the cool songs subscription is a good fit for me to add to my growing library of resources. The 100 left hand patterns book I feel alone if one actually learned them all in all 12 keys and applied it to songs they know is almost a full piano course on its own. Thanks again Jerald, I shared your stuff with my friends who are learning, hopefully they see the value like I do :)
Hi Jerald, I have a question. Could you change any song to the beat of the Cha Cha? I would like to perform for the dancing groups. tnx EdA
Hi Simon,
Could you tell me if could bye the book by downloading version, and how much?
I’m from Australia.
Thanks a lot,
Paul,
Phaly, thanks for your message. Sorry it has taken me so long to respond (I'm just seeing this now). Yes, I do have this book available as a PDF copy that you can download from my website at this link: musicmotivation.com/shop/pdf-downloadable-books/100-left-hand-patterns-every-piano-player-should-know-pdf-download-single-use-license/ - Let me know if you need help with anything. Thanks - Jerald
I have purchased your book. Please clarify-while playing pattern number 61 and onwards from page 20,how I follow the rules of parallel fifth and parallel octave in similar /contrary motion as well as unison to octave and octave to unison for consecutive chords which are forbidden in Western classical music.
Mechanical pretty much 👍👍👍
Do you have a piano sheet for your "Ghost and goblins" music ? I am trying to learn scary chord progressions.
You don't necessarily need to learn any scary chord progressions unless you want to. There are happy chord progressions and sad chord progressions. Yes, there are even scary and disturbing chord progressions out there as well and I love playing them. I create a lot of different music in different styles from new age to classical, jazz, pop, techno, rock, blues, modal jazz, hymns, and even ambient/chill/meditation/relaxation music. I'm weird, I'll admit it. Right now I am even finishing a few new albums that are very different. One is a classical style contemporary new age album of piano only solos. Another is a meditation/relaxation album primarily featuring descending and ascending tones and frequencies of the chakras for the holistic health industry. I am almost finished with a new techno-pop/rock album and will be recording the lyrics to a pop style christian song I wrote later this month. Next month I'm starting a children's lullaby album of soft/soothing original instrumental lullabies I have composed to help calm children and help them sleep. I may be a little (or a lot) crazy, but I enjoy creating different styles of music. And yes, I did come out with a scary Halloween album called, "Ghosts and Goblins and Freaks and Ghouls" which features 10 original scary, Halloween instrumental pieces I composed as piano music and then added additional orchestrations and sounds to it. I do have piano sheet music with accompanying minus tracks (all the fun/scary orchestration music) in the background available from my website as either a PDF downloadable book at this link: musicmotivation.com/shop/pdf-downloadable-books/ghosts-and-goblins-and-freaks-and-ghouls-pdf-download-includes-mp3-minus-tracks/ - or a spiral bound book (but you do receive an email that has the PDF book and minus tracks while you wait for the spiral bound book to arrive) at this link on my website: musicmotivation.com/shop/spiral-bound-books/ghosts-and-goblins-and-freaks-and-ghouls-includes-mp3-minus-tracks/ - You can watch the video lessons of me actually teaching each of the scary Halloween songs from the book at this link on RUclips (I play the pieces with the minus tracks and explain the theory of how and why I composed each of these pieces): ruclips.net/video/dnwxDkPhzhs/видео.html - You can also watch fun, short little videos I put together featuring the music (the music is also available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and all online music stores and streaming sites as MP3 downloads): ruclips.net/video/ZT4ip64ilEg/видео.html - I had a lot of fun composing this Halloween album/book and creating the piano music as well as the background orchestral parts and scary sounds. I hope you enjoy these! Let me know what you think! - Jerald
@@JeraldSimon Thanks a lot Jerald. I will buy the sheet and learn those songs. Scary music is the sound I am looking for.
@@1TreukFlyyy That's great! - Let me know how it goes. - Jerald
Jerald, Can you explain the "transposition technique with the number 7" ? I watched the video a couple of times but I didn't really understand how the rule works...
Here is a simple way to explain it - and I hope it makes sense or that I explain it well enough. If I have a key signature that has, let's say 3 sharps (the Key of A Major - with F sharp, C sharp, and G sharp). The magic number 7 is that I can take 7 subtract 3 sharps, and end up with 4 flats. Whatever key signature you are in will either have sharps or flats. You will take the opposite when you have subtracted the number of sharps or flats from 7. So, getting back to my initial example, 7 subtract 3 sharps (the Key of A Major) will give me the number 4 (I will go with flats instead of sharps). The key signature that has 4 flats is A flat Major. So If I am playing a song in the key of A Major and I want to transpose it to a new key signature, I can instantly play the song in the key of A flat Major. The nice thing is I can even read the music exactly as it is, but in my mind I don't play any of the sharps as they are notated. Instead I will think that there are four flats (B flat, E flat, A flat, and D flat - which is the key of A flat Major). My existing three sharps in the original key signature (F sharp, C sharp, and G sharp) will now be played as naturals. In my mind I am thinking to myself that everything will be a natural except for the four flats (B flat, E flat, A flat, and D flat). By doing this, I can still read the music as it is, but whenever I see an F sharp, I know I will instead play an F natural. I also know that whenever I see a B natural I will instead play a B flat because it is one of the four flats I will play throughout the piece. I used these two key signatures as an example, but it works for every key signature. If I have a key signature that has two sharps in it (D Major - F sharp and C sharp), I can then take the magic number 7 subtract two sharps (the Key of D Major). Seven subtract two is five. I will now have a key signature with five flats which happens to be D flat Major. I can read everything as notated again, but I will play F natural and C natural and will instead play the five flats (B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat). Does that make any sense? I hope that helps out a little bit. Let me know. Thanks - Jerald
@@JeraldSimon It does make sense now. But you can only transpose to one flat down with this technique, isn't it ? From A to Ab, from E to Eb, from B to Bb and so on...
@@1TreukFlyyy With the magic number 7, you are essentially going down half a step with key signatures that have flats and going up half a step with key signatures that have sharps. You can transition to any key signature you want and weave in and out of any key signature at will - but you will more likely use modes to modulate from one key signatures to the next. The modes essentially give you "accidentals" that you can use to bridge the key signature gap and transition smoothly from one key to the next. I tell students to start with the magic number 7 and learn how to do that in every key and then go on from there. It does become a little more tricky because most students have never learned the mode (i.e. Ionian, Dorian, Phrigian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian). You can also have variations within the modes (i.e. Lydian Dominant, Lydian Augmented, Lydian Diminished, Mixolydian Alt 6, Locrian Sharp 2, Super Locrian, Lydian Minor, and on and on). I try not to overwhelm piano students with all of the variations in the beginning because most are still trying to learn their basic scales and key signatures before they begin learning the modes. Once they know all of the modes and how to create them in every key signature, then we can start talking about how to use the modes to modify, modulate, change keys, change styles/sounds, etc. I hope that answers your question. Thanks - Jerald
@@JeraldSimon Ok, now I am confused 😂. It is cool because I am working on modulations these days. I know regular modes, but I don't know how to use them to modulate (besides relative key modulation, which consists of the exact same notes). I guess everything we talk about could make some great topics for future videos of yours. Do you have any book where you explain all this in detail step by step, with practical examples (or any videos) ?
it means even though a song may have had 3 sharps originally written in the key signature, if you don't play sharps easily, you can play it instead in 4 flats, you just play it, as if the key signature had originally shown 4 flats with the magic # always being 7. So if it a song has 6 flats in the key signature, and you don't play 6 flats well, instead you can play it, as if key signature had originallly said 1 sharp. The 2 numbers should always add up to 7. So 7 can be your lucky number, if that makes things easier for you! Jerald I subscribed, and so far I am enjoying your videos. I was trying to find the 100 left hand patterns spiral book on your website, but got instead an error message oops 404 again, that page can't be found! Was looking to see if it was about the same price as the paperback, or way more expensive to buy, getting anxious may just have to break down get the regular paperback book, and skip the spiral, just sounded a whole lot easier to use. I know in the end you will benefit, tremendously from the sell of your book, but thanks for putting it out there, I don't play music well at all, nor do I have a love for classical music to want to inspire me to take the time to ever learn it, but I do play by ear/chords at Church more of a southern gospel style of piano, that I love, and feel there is so much more I can probably learn with your book, so Thanks! The internet can be a great help, to put people in touch with that, they want to find, or receive! Why are there 2 different front covers out there, when I first seen that, it was confusing. I thought maybe the spiral bound was one color, and the paperback book the other?? Thank you for your gift of giving, it takes a special person to explain things in a way that can be comprehended by so many, I myself am more of a piano for dummies, kind of learner, so say a prayer I get it, sure hoping it's a go for me. Oh, could you put out a video on your version of how to play stride piano, some people on the internet have tried, and they may show you what they are playing like for example C octave, then C chord, then G note, then C chord:but then they don't put it to use in a song, like show you how to play stride piano, playing Amazing Grace or Just A Closer Walk With Thee in the key of C! Kind of like shifting the gears on a stick shift, so you can get some hands on experience at what they just explained.Thanks in advance again, Jackie
Hi sir I had purchased this book and one more book in pdf but some how it got deleted.. how to get it..
Thanks for letting me know. Send me a personal message on this page: www.musicmotivation.com/jeraldsimon (my email is on that page). I'll be happy to resend you the PDF books so you can download them again. Thanks so much! - Jerald
@@JeraldSimon ok sir...
make a midi version of your book online. So that people who play by ear can learn from you. Just put each pattern into a sequencer/DAW/E-Z keys
Thank you for your comment! I am in the process of making a midi version. Thanks - Jerald
You have a book called "Jazzed about Christmas". It sells on Amazon for $898. Is there any way to get this book at a more reasonable price? Any suggestions for other books for someone who is learning to play by ear, using your book of 100 LH patterns, to learn jazz?
J Nom81 - Thanks for your comment. I do have PDF and spiral bound versions of all of my books on my website. Here is the link to the PDF books: musicmotivation.com/product-category/pdf-downloadable-books/ - The PDF books are all around $8.95 - $12.95. The spiral bound books are usually under $25.00 - most are around $14.00. The books do contain music notation. Some of the books, like 100 Left Hand Patterns, contain left hand patterns written out in music notation and 100 songs written in fake book format where the right hand melody has been written out and chords are written above the melody. On my RUclips channel (RUclips.com/jeraldsimon), I have several video tutorials where I demonstrate how to play various styles from jazz, pop, rock, and more. There are more videos about improvisation, arranging, and composing. I do have a Cool Songs Course where students can learn my Cool Songs I have composed by watching the video lessons, downloading the sheet music PDFs, and progressing from beginner level - advanced levels. You can learn more at musicmotivation.com/coolsongs/. Thanks - Jerald
I found your PDF.
Hi Jerald, I still need help, Checkout will not let me proceed, something to do with value I think, it’s just a flash.
Thanks, John
John duggan - Send me a personal message at jeraldsimon@musicmotivation.com and I can tell you a different way to order the PDF. Thanks - Jerald
Hi Jerald, I wish to order you book 100 Left Hand Patterns, in PDF form
Having Problem with Checkout, Thanks John
Thanks, John for the comment. I am sorry you are having a problem with the checkout. I don't see anything out of the ordinary on my website end, but I will have my IT website guy look into it. Here is the link where you can download the PDF book: musicmotivation.com/shop/pdf-downloadable-books/100-left-hand-patterns-every-piano-player-should-know-pdf-download-single-use-license/ - Let me know if you still need help. Thanks - Jerald
is the book offered on Amazon spiral bound, as I don't see this detail listed
All of my books sold on Amazon are paperback.
You can buy my Essential Piano Exercises Series as a spiral bound set on my website at this link: musicmotivation.com/shop/spiral-bound-sets-by-jerald-simon/essential-piano-exercises-spiral-bound-set/
You can also buy all of the PDF books at this link: musicmotivation.com/product-category/pdf-downloadable-books/
Individual spiral bound books can be purchased from my distributor, Chesbro Music, at this link: musicmotivation.com/product-category/spiral-bound-books/
Here are some courses I have created:
Essential Piano Exercises Series: www.essentialpianoexercises.com/
Cool Songs for Cool Kids Series: musicmotivation.com/coolsongs/
Essential Piano Lessons (Group Online Piano Lessons): www.essentialpianolessons.com/
@@JeraldSimon thank you. I will search these links.
@@JeraldSimon I've followed the link to your distributor and selected two spiral bound books: cool songs book 2, and 100 left hand. I was given the option to put each in my wish list. From there it indicated each is in stock, so I clicked the hyperlink to add each to my cart, so as to purchase them. However, upon attempting this it said not available for purchase.
39:00 // Pattern 72 is a chord progression in itself right ? We should ignore the chords under the melody and play those chords instead, no matter what chords are written on the fake book ?
Yes, that is a chord progression. In the book, 100 Left Hand Patterns, it is pattern number 72 from the New Age and Contemporary Left Hand Patterns section of the book. In the example, you first play a C octave interval, followed by the C Major Chord (in first inversion), then the D minor Chord (in first inversion0 and concluding with the G Major Chord (in second inversion). When playing from whatever song you are playing, you would use the chord progression in the piece as the octave interval. If, as an example, you were playing a I - IV - vi - V chord progression in a song (i.e. C Major - F Major - A minor - G Major), each of these chords would be the octave interval and then you would follow the left hand pattern of the chords from the starting point of the octave interval. Does that help? Let me know. Thanks - Jerald
@@JeraldSimon So for the progression [C F Am G], the whole progression would be :
- C octave, C 1st inv, D 1st Inv, G
- F octave, F 1st inv, G 1st inv, C
- A octave, Am 1st inv, B dim first inv (??), Em
- G octave, G 1st inv, Am first inv, Dmin (??)
Is that right ?
(No really easy to explain through YT comments 😁)
Jerald could you make a ebook please. The country I live in is ridiculous, it is charging three types of taxes. The book is 100 dollars and by the time I get it it is 325 dollars, my dollars.
I’m so sorry it is that much. Here is a link to the PDF book from my website (it’s $9.95 for the PDF book): musicmotivation.com/shop/pdf-downloadable-books/100-left-hand-patterns-every-piano-player-should-know-pdf-download-single-use-license/ - Let me know if you have any questions or need help with anything. Thanks - Jerald