Master piano improvisation with our course on scales, chords, and cadences to create personal melodies. Perfect for beginners and intermediate players alike.
This course is all about diving into piano improvisation! You’ll learn to create melodies and rhythms using scales and chords, discovering cool concepts like the Phrygian Scale and different cadences. It's designed for everyone, whether you're starting out or have some knowledge already. Let's get playing!
Learn Piano Inventing Melodies and Rhythms with Scales, Chords and Cadences
Learn the knowledge base of Piano Improvisation and use scales, intervals and chord progressions for your own personal melodies. Discover the fascinating Phrygian Scale. Learn rhythmic techniques to make your melodies more interesting. And learn the meaning of Authentic, Plagal and Andalusian Cadences. Step by step you will discover your musicality!
There are many people who would like so much simply to sit down at the piano and begin to play, freely, without sheet notes: but they don´t know how to do it. Even those who already play their instrument at a really fair level with written music feel embarrassed when they are asked to play something!
Beginning or intensifying piano / keyboard practice may lead to drastic positive change in a person´s life style. A fifteen minutes daily practice time can be enough to clear our mind and to keep fingers and brain moving. But often we need external stimuli to enhance our motivation and to give us the power to continue playing and to cultivate our joy that will evolve when practicing regularly our instrument.
This Piano Lessons for Beginners course will give you the know-how for improvisation from the very first step on! It will give you the necessary recommendations for a successful learning practice. And it will give you the right material for a motivating onset of the development of your musical expression by improvisation, without sheet-notes.
All concepts will be shown at the instrument, acting on the maxim that there shouldn´t be any theory without practice.
Have a look at the piano lessons for beginners’ course structure, down on the page. Have a closer look to the description of the lectures. You will see that during this Piano Lessons for Beginners course, you will learn concepts and strategies that will open your mind in your piano / keyboard learning even though you already learned piano with your private teacher, even though you assisted to the piano classes of the conservatory of the town center, and even though you already took online lessons.
This course will give you impact you need to free yourself improvising on your instrument in an expressive personal way.
Is this piano course from day one for beginners or for an intermediate audience? I am sure that both will benefit from the lessons I am presenting here. And it will be useful to relisten the lessons in different phases of your learning practice.
You will learn harmonic melodic and rhythmic concepts to put musical expression into your playing
You will learn to develop further your own piano playing style.
You will learn how to practise compying songs.
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Peter Janzen is Doctor in Physics (Univ. of Cologne, Germany) and Music-Pedagogue (Univ. of Siegen Germany). After years working as university scientist he changed his area of activities and became Physics- and Music-Teacher in Germany and in Spain. He lived eight years in Mexico as principal of a big International School. Later he went to Cairo, Egypt as School Coordinator...
Great teacher, really easy to understand his voice and how he explains things
Mit einfachen Mittel wie Musik gemacht. Auch das Englisch ist gut verständlich auch wenn das eigene Englisch nicht so toll ist. Gratuliere. Man merkt, dass es ein erfahrener Lehrer ist.
The two resource links in section 1 are broken. As it is a recorded course, the fact that it is way too compact doesn't make sense to me. The course's entropy is nice, but I was expecting more information, e.g. which scales fit best to each genre. All of a sudden it's over. It's a petty it only insisted on the phrygian scale, as it is not applicable to the music I'd like to improvise on. Anyways, I'll leave my questions.
so far so good
A unique approach seems great so far
Dr. Janzen made an extraordinary effort to introduce us to improvisation. However, what I got out of it most was the practice to create hand independence. Bringing in his rhythmic variations was also a good practice. Overall it was a fine introduction. Thank you, Dr. Janzen.
It's been great so far! The instructor obviously has such a deep love for this subject and it comes through in his teaching
yes the instructor is knowleageable and takes you step by step to the process of improvisation
Dr. Janzen is a beautiful soul. Love his enthusiasm and wisdom.
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Tobi B.
When I read the title and look at how it is taught, I think a lot of steps needed to improvise are missing. There is now way you can understand what the author teaches when you start with the piano. It's really hard to understand what he is playing, as there are no highlights on the piano, as some youtubers use today to better visualise what they are doing. I have the feeling of being a spectator to someone that says "look it's easy" and afterwards it is "your turn", but there are now step by step explanations.