4 Easy Piano Tricks To Sound Like A Pro

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If David Bennet was a regular Pianonote teacher I might consider joining

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They have a lot of good coaches. Try a year.

[@juhakivekas2175]

David is the best teacher I have ever experienced, and Im 61! Ive had school teachers, university professors in natural sciences, professional trade teachers. Somehow he expresses himself very clearly, understandably and relaxed in a way that draws your attention. I think even the best education does not make you a good teacher if you dont have the right charisma, if you can not pull the students with you. And David can, plus he has obviously a good education behind him.

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Also Kevin Castro is ace. I have invested in lifetime membership

[@DavidBennettPiano]

@@juhakivekas2175thank you! That means a lot 😊

[@kenbagwell8551]

I can't believe I didn't know the five black keys make up a pentatonic scale! Thank you David, thank you Pianonote!

[@NowhereMan-t2q]

Not often but this guy deserves thumbs up ,simple easy instructions

[@HUMZMIC1]

My favorite was the pentonic scale. That sounded good!!!

[@derclops]

Thank you David, really enjoyed these tips! Kudos from Austria!

[@caryheuchert]

Great tips, and wonderful video. Thanks, David!!!

[@sonic2000gr]

Pedal tones is definitely a new trick for me. Thank you so much!

[@Josh25094]

Thanks Pianote for teaching me new tricks 🎉🎉

[@ligz2786]

I am not your natural born piano player and just a couple of years into piano playing. I never took lessons before just watch some interesting piano playing youtube instructional videos. I just started watching your youtube room and find it quite well from beginner to advance levels that makes it easier to understand. Keep up the good work! I plan to keep watching and learning from your youtube room.

[@arthouston7361]

Well done, David.

[@RobertPro-c9y]

Thanks so much nice teaching

[@markshveima]

Inverted pedal tones is a new one for me. I tend to always think pedal tone instead. But the inverted PT is a whole other emotional color. Love it. Thank You!

[@theghostofsw6276]

Gold right here for a beginner!

[@joby1konobi]

Thankyou, great lesson. Well taught.

[@PeterMcCarthy-v8i]

David Bennett is phenomenal. This session was extremely interesting! I loved the Pentatonic Scale and the Pedal Tone parts the most. Thanks.

[@midinotes]

I've always loved that country grace-note effect in chords, but I've never managed to nail it. Would love a lesson or some tips on how to create those lilted grace chords you often hear in country blues or jazzy pop music. Great video as always David and so professional, love the studio!

[@mickhelaalexander6477]

This was absolutely amazing 👏

[@anabelsuerodegonzalez3061]

Thanks a lot for these 4 wonderful tricks, indeed useful! I will definitely apply them in my playing👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@spotwms8768]

❤ the grace note tip🎉

[@stevekdaniel]

Great video

[@soupandcandy3588]

I love the pentatonic scale!

[@darinwilliams490]

You explain so well thankyou ❤ so much

[@gustough]

Nice! Tricks I will embrace and include into my practicing.

[@eugeneniangti8198]

Thanks for the tutorial. Grace note is best for me.

[@nickwebb9290]

Excellent tutorial, many thanks 🙏

[@RanLevi]

Amazing tips! Thanks, David.

[@BlixtenMarlowes]

So simple, yet so efficient! 😃

[@liyakatbawade3546]

Excellent demonstration 👏👏👏

[@saffmohamed7416]

Awesome and inspiring suggestions, thanks for the share!

[@AurelMironescu]

👍Thanks for another free content!

[@larrygraham3377]

Great video. THANKS A LOT !!! NOW I HAVE A FEW TRICKS UP MY SLEEVES !!! 😎😎😎

[@alrush1234]

Great, loved it.

[@nellysagundo6634]

Great tricks, Davin! Thank you.

[@seanlewis5804]

All I can say after watching this video is …. wow. I’m a very naïve beginner of just a few weeks, but I’m an older adult. I learned so much in this eight minute video. Likely going to be a subscriber very soon. Thank you so much!

[@valwolve]

I learned a lot from this

[@shentonpeters1191]

Thank You..impressive

[@jacoposcalzi1929]

Very good David

[@msgingerjourney]

Nice explanations. Thank you!

[@valwolve]

Amazing!!!! Wow

[@Thang8MuaThu]

Great 🎉😊

[@nicoludovico]

I am happy to hear your teaching is very clear and very good ,want to see more, cheers Nico

[@shynebox]

Yeah, pedal tones is a neat trick, ta!

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First off all, you're now my mans. Second of all, you posted on my birthday, third of all, Thank you.

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Thanks for sharing your video Sir.. informative. I love it.. im new follower

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci.

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Hey , I'm from India I wanted to learn paino. The videos helping me lot!

[@Luka_WiFi]

David Bennet, a legend! ⭐ ოქრო კაცი!

[@wesleybrown3489]

This was very helpful gave me some ideas. I may piano player as well and a songwriter. This has really helped me. I got some more ideas for my songwriting. Thank you so much. From this video on what I can do.

[@asyrafnukman1991]

Terima kasih video

[@davidbalan6571]

" The Scientists " by Coldplay, Lean on Me , by bill Withers . As it was " by Harry Styles , Blinding Lights , by the weekend .

[@aligator9552]

When David Bennett was the modulating the C pedal tone I swear I wanted to hear the harmonica kicking from a long way home by Supertramp

[@tommytam100]

They are quite basic but impactful

[@ssesangaelizabeth6406]

Learned something

[@SaveManWoman]

Grace notes are great. The Hindustani Music has big emphasis on grace notes(gamaks).

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Hi David, excellent 🎹🎶lesson - I’m subscribed to your YT 🎹 channel. May I ask please which Nord Piano Library model “piano” you are playing in this video? Cheers, Garzo

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👍

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Nice…

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Woow

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Appreciate for that

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Trick 4

[@captainalpaka1551]

A good example of a pedal Tone is the Indiana Jones theme. It's also in C Major.

[@Ilmatar101]

I feel that the black keys only trick is a bit too basic and restrictive, more of an exercise for absolute beginners, because it's definitely motivating. But pedal notes have definitely slipped into my improvisation already. They bring a sense of anticipation that I quite like, until you 'leap' from the pedal. It's easy enough to bring grace notes into the melody or right hand, but I kind of struggle choosing what note I 'grace up' or 'grace down' in the bass - tonic, third, fifth?

[@Gottenhimfella]

See if you can find the isolated bass line for the iconic Yes song "Roundabout", in which Chris Squires plays (or praps more accurately, ghosts) grace notes to several notes in succession during the pattern which runs under each verse. In each case the grace note was simply a repetition of the note he was moving from, which in some contexts works very well. It's technically quite hard for a keyboard player if the tempo is fast, but there is almost always a crafty fingering which can render it possible if you care to put in the time for experimentation. If you can't find the isolated bass track, or even if you can, it's well worth listening to Rick Beato dissect this phenomenal tour de force of rock music on his "what makes this song great" series. I recall him briefly discussing the bass line, which he isolated. A keyboard bass line with fantastically funky grace notes is Herbie Hancock's left hand, in any performance of Chameleon. Many of the grace notes are either an octave, or a seventh, above the note being graced.

[@Ilmatar101]

@@Gottenhimfella Thanks for your answer! I looked that bass line up (while Beato kind of "strikes the wrong chord" for me). It is undoubtedly a stroke of genious, but it still remains a single bass line - and doesn't answer the question that I tried to raise (in a language that's not my mother tongue). My question concerned harmonic context, which we don't have in the bass line. For example, David plays a grace note for the third of chord at the five minute mark of the video, and he plays it 'top-down'. Could he do the same thing in the same situation for the fifth or the root note?

[@Gottenhimfella]

@@Ilmatar101 I took it from your first post, when you said " I kind of struggle choosing what note I 'grace up' or 'grace down' in the *bass* " that you were asking about bass lines, which are usually one note at a time (monophonic) lines. It seems I read too much into that word. Grace notes are (I guess) a "stylistic flourish", and it's perhaps dangerous to try to find rules to guide matters of taste. I would personally recommend that instead of looking for guidance based on rules, you study the playing of people whose artistic output excites or satisfies you. For me, I tend to lump together grace notes, chord voicings and non-simultaneous chord playing (such as flam), because anyone who is a genius at one of these things generally has their own signature in the other two areas, which to me are all related. So as a keyboard player I listen carefully to players like Larry Knechtel (Bridge over Troubled Water), Rick Wakeman (Morning has Broken), and Paul Griffin (American Pie). These three were all brilliant session musicians, and they effectively arranged, as well as coming up with inspired piano parts for, the songs mentioned. They were all heavily influenced by the Gospel piano styles of their day, from where grace notes and flam had originally come into jazz and rock music. (Wakeman of course played keyboards for "Yes" at the time when they came up with "Roundabout") Billy Powell (Sweet Home Alabama), Nicky Hopkins (Sympathy for the Devil). and Leon Russell (The Letter, with Joe Cocker) and perhaps most of all, Bruce Hornsby (The Way it Is) are others with a rare talent, in my view, for grace notes. Of course these decorations go a lot further back, Bach was reputedly a master (although many such flourishes in Baroque times were not notated), as were Romantic composer/players like Chopin and Liszt. Lastly, I think David's point that singing is the real birthplace of grace notes is one to bear in mind, and great singers continually provide us with a free education as to what works, just as mediocre ones provide plenty of examples of what does not.

[@philmckenna5709]

@Gottenhimfella Excellent post, mate! Food for thought (and experimentation)...

[@Gottenhimfella]

@@philmckenna5709 Thanks, mate! Always good to hear when a message has reached a slightly wider audience. On rereading what I wrote, I realise I perhaps left out as many iconic early players as I included , but I won't dilute the message further except that I must include two of the first massive influencers in my playing: Billy Preston, who provided so much beneficial inspiration to the Beatles at a time when they were in danger of exhausting their previous influences (Organ on "Let it Be", composed and performed "That's the way God planned it" Also Matthew C Fisher (Whiter Shade of Pale) It's interesting that Billy, too, was immersed in gospel music for his formative years. I don't know about Matthew, but I was able to discover that during his years at Selhurst Grammar school, Mr Spratt gave a course of musical appreciation after the obligatory religious service. Starting with the classics - Bach and Handel, then Mozart and Haydn and so on to Beethoven and the Romantics. When Mr Spratt reached the latter, he made the remark "The rot set in with Beethoven" This might provide at least part of the answer to to where Matthew found his inspiration for the organ parts of "Whiter Shade". Tying back to the nominal reason for these posts (grace notes): the combination of a particularly haunting drawbar setting on the Hammond (four leftmost fully out, remainder fully in, percussion on the second harmonic), and Matthew's perfectly judged semitone grace note up into the chord which opens the intro, makes it instantly recognisable and intensely evocative even to non-musos, even if playback is halted before the chromatic step down in the bass immediately after beat two of bar one. Today's "worship music" seems to me generally rather less inspired and inspiring. I long since ceased to have a dog (or the reverse spelling!) in the fight, as a did as a child in the sixties, but that still does sadden me a little.

[@ipainthouses3084]

The pedal note , does this only works with C ?

[@PianoteOfficial]

You can find pedal notes in every key :)

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Wow! I didn’t know that!

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Jajaja, así es, nunca pensé en eso

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😂 so true!

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Pianazo!

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Jajaja tremendo pianote, cierto. I speak Spanish and I never considered such thing.

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Por favor , ensina a música i started a joke

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As always

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Add David Bennett to your staff and I will sign up again. (belonged a few years ago and drifted away because I found a really good teacher)

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I want to become a farmer but I really want to know piano

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Make sure to do exercises for your hands and wrists.

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Can you give me a piano? I highly doubt i can find any of it in my country

[@Liverpool-axeman]

Bless him he kept missing the grace notes and just moved on like it didn’t happen.

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David is so damn good That another country cudnt replicate his skills and had to import him for his rare skills

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Tell Amy I said hi...

[@joysoul4089]

No, I understand why some jazz keyboardists don’t read music. They use all those tricks. 🤣

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6:23 no you didn't....

[@dankers12]

These aren't tricks. These are illusions.

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All music is an illusion 😂

[@argi0774]

Honestly, if I hear that, I am thinking: beginner. But sure as hell not Pro

[@RodrigoRaez]

What a great lesson. Thank you very much!

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A great lesson, thank you 👍