everytime I see one of theses videos come out I get super excited. Its christmas again!

@ethansmith3978

7 жыл бұрын

thanks bill for what you do👍

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

No problem Ethan - I'm glad you like them so much!

Thank you, so much! Your tutorials are great, and really inspire me to play!

I'm glad you're asking people to subscribe and explaining why it's a good idea. A lot of people don't think about subscribing even they really like someone or their videos, so it's a good idea. Love the tutorial. Hoping to find time to follow your music reading series but college has started again, so I'll just have to play it by ear ;)

Another interesting tutorial, and I like the fact that you generally use different (but useful (e.g. E, E flat) rather than wild (e.g. D# major)) keys in your tutorials to get beginning improvisers a nudge towards exploring a little past the ubiquitous c and g majors!

Love your videos!!!

I have recently found your videos, definitely not new to music but very new to the piano. I like these, thank you

Dude, simply brilliant!! Thank you

Great chord tutorial 👌

So smooth it sounds.

Nice. Thank you.

Wonderful !

Wow. I'm absolutely stunned

Ah, thank goodness for these tutorials.

Seriously your videos and explanations are second to none ! Can't thank you enough . I can feel that my dream of being able to improvise and play by ear might actually be within reach !

@BillHilton

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Christine! Improvisation and ear playing are within reach for nearly everyone: it's all a question of degree - if you can follow the tutorials then you should find that you're able to do both to some extent already. Once you've got a sense of how they work, then it's just a question of spending time at the piano keyboard working at them...!

Wow- your tutorials are amazing!!! I was looking for a new song to learn in the piano when I came across your channel and thought to check it out. This is awesome! New subscriber!

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ploosh! :)

I love your videos sir. It has really been been helpful. You are blessed sir.

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Proof that you can make beautiful music with very simple concepts. Very pretty sounds in the second example which has shown me what can be achieved. I think it works because you are using chords and notes derived from the Eb scale but my theory knowledge is in its infancy. Great work Bill

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark - glad it's been useful for you!

Hi Bill, enjoyed this ballad improvisaation technique you taught in this lesson. You really have a simple but effective way of reaching beginners. Yes, I like what you said : always go from the practical to the theory and not the other way around. Precisely. I agree. I love just sitting down at the piano and just play something. When l get something that sounds good l start to analyze using theory.

@BillHilton

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, Jayagopi - I'm glad you liked it. Yep, too often learners, and especially adult learners, think they need to master ALL the theory before they can do anything, and that everything they do has to follow "the rules". It's just not the case, as you know!

hi bill i really like your stuff , you've helped me a lot , thanks a lot i really would like to buy your books but sadly english is not my mother language . keep doing this great job thx a lot

Bill Ha-ha I have become addicted to watching your tutorials is like watching a good t.v. series,where one episode ends and you cant wait for the next one to begin,Ha-ha.God bless you.By the way can this chords technique be transpose to any key or dose it only work within the Eb scale?

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Abiel - thanks very much indeed! It's completely transposable - should work in any key!

Thank you!!

@BillHilton

3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Thanks a lot!

@BillHilton

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Martin!

Great lesson, great tune, and I learned a lot, no problem attacking the fingers, notes, chords-- but then you pulled out sheet music and I crawled into a corner of fear. Never liked sheet music because of the rigidity. But "put your fingers here and do it like this" I can do all day long. So keep up the hand playing and I'll be fine!! LOL

It would work better if your books were available as a PDF so that it could be displayed in "forscore" the most popular sheet music presentation app for the ipad pro. But selling it on Amazon at least in the Kindle format it could still work well in a large ipad using the Kindle app. Paper books with binding don't sit that well on the piano, fall off and frustrate, so my first step is to take paper music books to the stationary store and get the binding cut off and replaced with a spiral bound, but there are some issues with that too.

Is it's sound a kind of open voice Sir,

can you please a vid of your setup. from the electric piano to the pc. and what software do you use? thanks

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Yup: have a look at this - kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqKMp7uGpaXUpLA.html

This was a great video even for a Noob.

@BillHilton

2 жыл бұрын

Merci, Lawrence!

It's really wonderful but it would be nice if you can say the chords slowly and surely so that we can practice daily please

So, does this work because the constant chord in your right hand is the tonic chord?

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

Essentially yes, Mike, although I do vary the right hand a bit away from the notes of the tonic. If you look at the notes of the tonic - Eb, G and Bb - they mostly either appear in the other chords I play or offer a natural extension of them (e.g., as the 7th, 9th and 11th extensions of the basic Fm chord). What makes it work is the relatively simplicity of the left hand chords: if I started dropping in non-diatonic chords it would get quite crunchy quite quickly...!

you should become a voice actor as well :D

Hi, could you tell me wich keyboard are you using?

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

It's a Nord NP-88 stage piano :)

@Smilextreeme

7 жыл бұрын

Bill Hilton thx

you should do a video to teach other enthusiasts how to record their own piece with just computer/laptop, piano and their camera without buying any other piece of hardware other than an aux cable or something.

@BillHilton

7 жыл бұрын

I already have! I actually shot one last year, but decided to keep it unlisted rather than live. Now so many people are asking for it I'm actually going to put it live in my feed over the next few days. In the meantime, you can view it here... kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqKMp7uGpaXUpLA.html

@MrDwayneLITE

7 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!

Yeah! more playing! less talking :-)