{"id":2059,"date":"2009-05-11T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2019-08-14T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T09:24:24","slug":"ask-the-expert-improvisation-skills-for-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/ask-the-expert-improvisation-skills-for-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the Expert – Improvisation skills for piano"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Ecclestone from Canada asks:<\/p>\n

“Can you please recommend any websites\/teaching resources on learning how to develop musical improvisation and arranging skills (like on how to play a piece of music for piano building around playing arpeggios with passing notes) that are easy to understand for piano playing?\u00a0 A lot of the material out there is really complicated to understand.\u00a0 It’s primarily done from a complicated jazz point of view and I play country and Christian music.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hi Mark, I’m not really familiar with other websites that can help you but we do have some older blog posts which cover this and our Intermediate Worship Keybaords DVDs<\/a> (which can be used for piano as well) cover it in a lot of depth. Our online keyboard “song learner” lessons also give a lot of hints on this.<\/p>\n

Have a read\/look at the following:<\/p>\n

Video lesson – 10 things to do with chords<\/a><\/p>\n

Introduction to worship keyboards playing<\/a><\/p>\n

Understanding contemporary rhythms<\/a><\/p>\n

Understanding how to form and use melodic fills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Ecclestone from Canada asks: “Can you please recommend any websites\/teaching resources on learning how to develop musical improvisation and arranging skills (like on how to play a piece of music for piano building around playing arpeggios with passing notes) that are easy to understand for piano playing?\u00a0 A lot of the material out there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":20020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[700,28,29,30,1502],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAsk the Expert - Improvisation skills for piano | Musicademy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/ask-the-expert-improvisation-skills-for-piano\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ask the Expert - Improvisation skills for piano | Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mark Ecclestone from Canada asks: “Can you please recommend any websites\/teaching resources on learning how to develop musical improvisation and arranging skills (like on how to play a piece of music for piano building around playing arpeggios with passing notes) that are easy to understand for piano playing?\u00a0 A lot of the material out there […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/ask-the-expert-improvisation-skills-for-piano\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-11T16:07:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-08-14T09:24:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/28074939\/worship-songs-for-piano-keyboard.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"753\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Marie@Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@musicademy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@musicademy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Marie@Musicademy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/ask-the-expert-improvisation-skills-for-piano\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/ask-the-expert-improvisation-skills-for-piano\/\",\"name\":\"Ask the Expert - Improvisation skills for piano | Musicademy\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-11T16:07:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-14T09:24:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f250bacb3de5aa97fa822e06e84a706c\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/ask-the-expert-improvisation-skills-for-piano\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Musicademy\",\"description\":\"Award-winning training resources for church based musicians\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f250bacb3de5aa97fa822e06e84a706c\",\"name\":\"Marie@Musicademy\",\"description\":\"Marie is a Director of Musicademy and works as the Business Manager and E-Commerce specialist. 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