"Piano and Keyboard for the Real World" is a set of advanced lessons on DVD covering specific hints and tricks that professional keyboard players use every day. Designed to be studied any time after our original course titled "Pattern Piano and Keyboard", this DVD contains the following advanced lessons:
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Full Lesson 1: Exploring the use of "Tension"... and "Release"!

More stress? Not really. The "tension" we're talking about is good stuff. It can turn ordinary music into truly beautiful music.

"Tension" in music is very much like contrasting colors within the visual art world. Just like a picture can make a bold statement using contrasting colors, music can make bold statements using the concept of dissonance and resolution (or "Tension and Release") to create interest.

Incorporate this tension/release factor into your keyboard playing, and suddenly you'll have gained much of the flavor found in contemporary music.
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Full Lesson 2: "PowerFingers"

With an emphasis on "Accented Finger Exercises", this lesson will give you finger speed, dexterity and complete finger independence on the Piano and Keyboard.

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Full Lesson 3: "How to play fantastic solos on the keyboard - Chapter 1"

This piano lesson explores a time-honored technique used by great piano soloists around the world: learning how to create melodic lines that will grab your listener's attention with chord tones and non-chord tones.

We'll begin simply, playing only half notes taken from notes found within the supporting chords. By the end of this lesson, we'll be mixing up the rhythms, and making the solo melody lines more interesting with the use of "passing tones", or "non-chord tones".

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Full Lesson 4: Songwriting - "How to come up with new ideas on the keyboard - Chapter 1"

Most keyboard players also eventually end up composing their own music. One of the challenges of effective songwriting is coming up with new, fresh ideas.

In this lesson, we'll dig into the concepts that will allow you to quickly come up with new chords and chord progressions for your songs.

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Full Lesson 5: "The three diminished seventh chords in all of music"

Did you know there are only three diminished 7th chords in all of music?

It's true - using all 88 notes of the keyboard...

• You can build 12 different kinds of Major, minor or Dominant 7th Chords
• But you can only build three different kinds of diminished 7th chords

Check out this insightful lesson to get a grasp on the mysterious "Diminished 7th" chord.

All DVD lessons will play on standard DVD players worldwide. In addition, all DVD, CDROM and Downloadable lessons are Windows and Mac Compatible.