In this tutorial, I show you a piano melodic line composed by Chopin in his Etude in Ab Opus 25 No 1. I show you what notes he uses, how you can play it on the piano in different keys, and how you can use it to fill empty spots in songs like Happy Birthday, Taylor Swift's You Belong With Me, Billy Joel's Piano Man, and the Jazz standard, Fly My To The Moon, made famous by Frank Sinatra. 💡💡FREE COURSE PREVIEW: bit.ly/3MMnEyh 🎹 1 Year Piano Success Blueprint: bit.ly/4aDd07h 🌟 How To Know What Fingers To Use In Piano: • FIGURING OUT PIANO FINGERING | PRACTI... 😁 Happy Birthday Easy Piano Tutorial: • HAPPY BIRTHDAY Easy Piano TUTORIAL | ... 🎹 You Belong With Me Easy Piano Tutorial: • You Belong With Me (Taylor Swift) Eas... 👉 Piano Man tutorial: kzread.infotJJOcUdSd9k 🗒 Practice Makes Permanent Book: bit.ly/3uyfUK4 ✔ Get Weekly Practice Tips To Your Inbox: bit.ly/3Rwk3aN 🎹 REACH YOUR PIANO GOALS: thepianokeys.com 👉 Join My FACEBOOK GROUP: bit.ly/3w9o5sH Donate to support my channel: 💖 PayPal: paypal.me/thepianokeys Donate to support my channel: 👉 Cash App: $ThePianoKeys

I love that you don’t go further, most teachers end up showing their own skills instead of teaching. You are doing excellent, coming from music teacher.

@venusspacey9685

2 ай бұрын

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@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@SaveManWoman

2 ай бұрын

@@ThePianoKeys you are very welcome, keep brining harmony during these tough times. Love your content and approach on how to have music registered accordingly. 💕

Of course, you can take the same Chopin fill and make it minor, or take a different inversion (any of the 3 will do) of the 4-note chord and do the same thing with that and it will also work just fine. Similarly, you can take the arpeggiation the left hand is doing and apply that across many different genres and songs. I like that you are able to readily translate these ideas across different genres; a lot of people don't realize how fundamentally similar the various genres of music are, underneath the cosmetics.

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

I agree with you completely! Just can't put all that in one video because it would be overwhelming for people. 😊

I discovered this too, just recently. These 4 notes are the 4 notes of a Bugle Call, And an Incredible number of songs are built starting on these 4 Notes! They are the 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th Notes of the Harmonic Series (coincidentally, Chopin starts his Etude in C Major with a pattern based on the very first Notes of the Harmonic Series), A fascinating thing to do is also learn them in the Relative Minor and the Parallel Minor. You will soon discover all these fascinating chord sequences based on Triad Pairs. I really think this is the first thing that should be taught in Ear Training and Composition. Composing, Orchestration, with a limited color palette. The next 4 Notes to do this are the first 4 Notes of 'I Got Rhythm". You see it everywhere from Jazz to blues to Rock to Pop.

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Yes, I think this fill would sound great in a minor key!

That’s pretty cool Marina! Amazing how it works in so many different pieces. Thank you!

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, Cathy!

Brilliant and so usable! Thank you

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Fantastic! I play a wide range of styles, and I can see where this will come in handy for those empty spots. Plus, it’s Chopin!

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Yes, so very versatile! I just uploaded another video doing the same with a Beethoven snippet!

Very Entertaining and as always you explain and demonstrate how to do it so well !!.

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Anna! 💖

Thank you Marina, I'm using these patterns as a warm up too.

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Great idea!

Wow, that is very cool, Marina! I especially like it with Piano Man. I've got to learn that song's intro and put this little extra into it. Thank you!

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, Elaine! It's so much fun to find these gems that were written so long ago and bring them into modern music.

Thank you, Marina, you are great!!! Each of your videos is a wonderful surprise!!! A wonderful evening and a thousand kisses! 💗💗🎵💗💗

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, Gioseffo!

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3 ай бұрын

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Very cool thanks

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

Great tip! Will have to keep this one in mind.

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, David!

Fantastic!

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, Elisabetta!! And congratulations on your amazing piano progress!

Thanks for this tutorial, will try to learn it. I'm on intermediate level and hope to keeping following your page

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Merci beaucoup

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

De rien!

Loved it. Just subscribed. Thanks.

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Welcome aboard, I'm so glad you're here!

Nice one Well explained..

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Brilliant! Why don’t teachers teach like you?!! They make me play a piece a week without such understanding and I pay them oh my gosh

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

So glad you liked the video! I can't speak for other teachers, but I'm constantly striving to give my students more value for their time and money.

I will use this run. Thank you 🙂

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

That's wonderful!

I loved jazz❤

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

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@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

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@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, Kevin!

I was trying to pay attention until I noticed your carpet was alive, then it walked off... I'll start over.

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣 The real fun begins when it grows a face...

Hey it's the etude known as "Aeolian Harp"😍One of my long-term-learning-projects. Great idea to put a snippet into other pieces 🙂

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Yes, it is, Sir J! It's one of the pieces that we'll be taking ideas from for Become A Piano Superhero 3!

Very interesting

@ThePianoKeys

22 сағат бұрын

Glad you liked it!

thank you for what you do. by fiddling with one note of Chopin's lic, it may fit different styles better. or fly me to the moon try using the lic on a D maor chord?? thank you again

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Of course you can use it in any key.

Please provide more improvisation tutorials. I’m an accomplished pianist and can also play songs by ear and transpose in my head. However, I’m not good at improv and am in need of some ideas. Thanks

@ThePianoKeys

24 күн бұрын

Yes, I have videos on improv in the works!

@ST52655

24 күн бұрын

@@ThePianoKeysThanks! 😊

Thank you for this tip for piano. Will this work with Mozart’s Fantasia in D minor. I played this at my piano recital and got stuck and skipped two measures before I figured out what to do.

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Well, I guess you can make it work for any piece!

Great lessons. Is there an order of difficulty from easiest to hardest for Chopin piano pieces, or a recommended order?

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! That would be a pretty time-consuming list to put together, but generally speaking, Chopin writes for the intermediate to advanced to virtuoso pianist. However, some of the preludes can be played by less experienced pianists, as well as a couple of the waltzes.

Hello. Great Video. My question is, when you use these as fills, since you are playing it on a long note and that long note is on the first beat of the measure, you have to adjust the rhythm of the fill? Is that correct?

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes, you can adjust the rhythm to fit whatever situation you want to use it in.

Lovely 🩷🙂

@ThePianoKeys

3 ай бұрын

Thank you, Elizabeth!

Those are the same notes used in Taps on the bugle. So it works there too.

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Yes, you're right!

If Bach is The Man, then Chopin is The Dude.

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

I feel like Chopin was a bit uptight to be The Dude. 🤣🤣

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@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

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2 ай бұрын

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2 ай бұрын

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2 ай бұрын

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2 ай бұрын

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2 ай бұрын

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Excellent video. Is that possible to show us in detail of how to harmonise a modern song in the manner like "Schubert Impromptu op. 90 no. 3 in G-Flat Major-D899"?. I can find an example of Ave Maria by Emile Pandolfi using a similar method. ( kzread.info/dash/bejne/iGWsj6uJqsLXZ5s.htmlsi=kEyF7VIY-LVxvLMD ). Or Un Sospiro by Liszt is also of interest. Any recommendation on related written material or books is very much appreciated.

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Reharmonizing music is a lot of fun to do! What is required is to understand and practice all different kinds of chords first, then apply that knowledge to simple songs, then move on to more advanced music, and so on.

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@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

Let's fill the universe with music!

Love it Marina. Thank you once again for a fantastic little gem. I would love to see more of these fills. Being classically-trained, as you know, we are taught to just play what's written and not what we feel - therefore, sticking to the notation and confined to what the composer wanted - which is nonsense in itself as how could we possibly know what he intended for us to play. The issue I have now is that I really can't find, develop are evolve my own fills. So this is really helpful and would be an excellent way to add to my musical tool-box. Looking forward to the next tutorial.

@ThePianoKeys

2 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you found this video helpful! I plan to make many more of these kinds of tutorials. 😊

@ScarletteFiesci

2 ай бұрын

@@ThePianoKeys that is excellent news. So glad to hear that, you have no idea how much! I really do struggle with the fills. It's as though my brain dries up and thinks, it can't possibly come out with anything even just rolling from a sus 2 to the whole chord, I don't even think about at the time when playing. It's only after that I realise that I could have used that to fill in, gap or not, just make it more melodic and further my own interpretation thus creating my own feel put my own stamp on the piece! A feel within the fill lol! Now there's a potential Freudian Slip just waiting in the wings lol! Chopin is my favourite composer and so finding these little gems which I can lift from this great man is a bonus to say the least! I wonder if you could do a tutorial on that Étude and Prelude number one and eight, if only just to really understand how to count it with the metronome and get it under my fingers. Not sure if that goes totally out of the remit of the channel due to complexity but I would be grateful for that. Especially to learn exactly where we can take the fills out from - what works and doesn't Really looking forward to the next one! Sorry for the long reply. Just eager to see your next tutorial. Love your channel and teaching style - calming, inspiring and motivating. Apologies if I appear too effusive! Many thanks