You think it’s difficult to play piano with both hands? Wait till you see how someone can play piano without arms. If you’ve been thinking about quitting playing the piano, this video will give you plenty of reason to stay motivated.

It nearly brought tears to my eyes.

Sometimes I do find myself ungrateful, but this video totally changes my perspective and helps me to be thankful for everything.

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A caveat:
This 5-minute video is in a different language. (It does have English subtitles.)

This video will change your life and help you be more diligent about practicing the piano.

Let’s make more music!

Have you heard of the pentatonic scale?
The pentatonic scale consists of five notes, namely, I-II-III-V-VI.
You can create all kinds of beautiful music using the pentatonic scale.

In fact take a look at this video that highlights the use of the pentatonic scale. One of our customers, Miriam, created this video. She started composing using the pentatonic scale after learning this technique from our Definitive Piano Improvisation course.

With her permission, I am sharing with you her first music video that uses the pentatonic notes blended with open chord voicing.

You’ll enjoy this video as much as I did, I’m sure. She puts real effort into combining her music with beautiful pictures of nature. Furthermore, she uses a music synthesizer to highlight certain instrumental effects. Kudos to Miriam.

Pentatonic scales are very common and are found all over the world, including Celtic folk music, Hungarian folk music, West African music, African-American spirituals, American folk music, Jazz, American blues music and rock music, Asian music etc.

Frédéric Chopin wrote the right hand piano part of his Etude Op. 10 no. 5 in the major G-flat pentatonic scale, and therefore, the melody is played using only the black keys. Antonín Dvořák, inspired by the native American music and African-American spirituals he heard in America, made extensive use of pentatonic themes in his “New World” Symphony and his “American” Quartet.

Are you finding the pentatonic scale interesting now?

Please feel free to leave your comments on the section below!

piano improvisation

Just wanted to let you know that I have prepared a short video tutorial for you.

This video shows you how to compose and end a song using a group of chords; C maj – Ab maj – Bb maj – C maj.
(i-vib-viib-i)

I think you will like this video a lot.

I even picked a song you are familiar with so that you can see how to use this chord progression to create a beautiful “ending”.
Could you tell me what song this is?

Hopefully this will give you more inspirations to make music and improvise.