This page will help you get 'the right perspective'
for quick results! If there is one word to describe Piano Magic, the word is
INSIGHT! When you experience
it, confusion is replaced with logical understanding. As a
result, you'll see the BIG picture of how most music works!
Piano Magic is a method of logical thinking. Once you understand
how to think like music, you'll begin to see through the 'so
called' secrets that natural musicians use and rely upon.
Secret #1
The first big Secret in Piano Magic is to understand
that SCALES do NOT sound like music! The ability to play scales
will help you to play SCALES...NOT the music most of us live
with from day to day. In fact, the ability to play scales
too soon may actually hamper your progress at playing the
music you can hum, whistle or sing. Why? Because students
erroneously tend to think the fingering required for playing
scales is also the fingering used to play music. Nothing could
be further from the truth!
I am often appalled at the number of instructors, home study
courses and web sites that continue to proclaim music is based
on SCALES! In my experience as a professional musician (since
1967), it just ain't so! Learn why by listening to the streaming
audio discussion below.
THE BIG SECRET ABOUT SCALES (1:46)
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Secret #2
Chords sound like music to our ears because music is
based on chords. Chords usually occur as repetitive and predictable
patterns from one song to the next. Although the length of
time a chord is held may vary between songs, the chord structure
and pattern continues to be repetitive and predictable. Surprisingly,
many well known tunes are created using a completely identical,
repetitive and predictable chord pattern played by the left
hand, combined with a unique (but predictable) melody played
by the right hand.
Secret #3
Hundreds of songs share the exact same left hand movement.
If you learn the left hand movements to play only ONE of them,
you can play the left hand to ALL of them. This means the
only difference between hundreds of songs is the melody...and
even those are similar. There's more...
Secret #4
Some chord patterns make it almost impossible for a wrong
tone to exist. Let me say that again...some chord patterns
NEGATE, NULLIFY and DISPENSE with wrong tones! Whether you
are a beginner or advanced musician, this is very good to
know! Yes?
When using these familiar chord patterns, most tones on the
white keys are perfectly OK! When playing on the white keys
(known as the Key of C) any white key is acceptable and can
be used to play melody...except ONE. By applying the rule,
you don't have to know how to play in order to sound pretty
good.
In the following audio example I coerced my friend, Rob,
to be the test subject. Rob doesn't play, but even HE can
sound quite good applying the secrets only found in Piano
Magic. What you are about to hear is a spontaneous improvisation
between Rob and me. I played the chordal accompaniment and
he played the higher pitched melody tones. The only rule I
told him was to avoid playing ONE specific key...and to try
to dance with me on the keyboard. At the end of this impromptu
performance, I interviewed Rob. Although he was obviously
shy in the interview, his sincerity can be heard and felt.
Fun! Check it out and learn the 'rule'...then play along with
us and try it for yourself!
GET THE 'F' OUT!(3:06)
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Secret #5
Most tunes are similar - not different - and sometimes they
are identical! Piano Magic is understanding how music thinks
in terms of chords; NOT scales. Chords sound like music to
our ears, because music is based on chords. In addition, chords
generally occur as repetitive and predictable patterns from
one song to the next. As a result, the basic structure of
most songs are very similar from one song to the next. In
fact, songs are much more similar to each other...than different!
Even the tunes of songs are similar...and sometimes they are
identical! And this is a Secret? Don't YOU need to know this
kind of info?
"My God, THANK YOU. I took
lessons for 10 years hoping to learn what you showed
me tonight. What is WRONG with the teachers?"
- Bob Lovett -
Let's review the Secrets discussed above:
Scales do NOT sound like music. Playing scales too early
(if ever) may actually hamper your progress at playing the
music you can hum, whistle or sing.
Music is based on chords...not scales. As a result, scales
do not sound like the tunes we hum, whistle or sing...chords
do!
Hundreds of songs share the exact same chord pattern,
and can be played with the exact same left hand movements
from one song to the next. If you can play the left hand
to just ONE of these songs, you can play the left hand to
ALL of them.
Some chord patterns make it nearly impossible to play
a wrong tone.
Even the tunes of many songs are similar...and sometimes
they are identical.
When you understand how chords work, you'll be able to THINK
like music. When you think like music, you can play most songs,
with both hands, the first time you try - even if you have
never played before! How is this possible?
It's magic...Piano Magic! It changed
my life; it can change your life, too!
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