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How To Really Play The Piano - £14.95 + FREE p&p!

November 27, 2009

Woo! It’s here - an overview of Bill’s brand new book, How To Really Play The Piano!

Amati Recording Studios

January 28, 2010

Graeme Allen has just launched a nation-wide recording studio agency, read his introductory letter to see what it’s about.

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Comps for pop piano

January 10, 2010

Comping (”accompanying”) looks impressive, but it’s not particular difficult. Improvising comps on the piano over a given chord sequence is a skill you can develop relatively quickly.

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This is second screencast in my series on very basic harmony (you can find the first one here. Once again, it’s designed to tie in with my book, How To Really Play The Piano, but you don’t need to be reading the book to get the full benefit of the screencast.

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Really Basic Harmony - Part One

January 6, 2010

The first in a series of screencasts designed to tie in with my book. This one covers really elementary harmonic principles - the difference between harmony and unison, how chords are constructed and how chords work under a melody as part of a song.

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How To Really Play The Piano - Video Index

November 25, 2009

Index of video tutorials for Bill’s book.

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Blasted book-writin’

September 24, 2009

Apologies for the lack of posts - Graeme is job hunting and I’m up to my neck in finishing off my new book, How To Really Play The Piano.
More stuff coming on Jamcast very soon - in the meantime, feel free to follow me on Twitter!

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