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Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke loves Rhodes and boobs.

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A sweaty, sexy, beast of a beat.

The minimalist approach that we’ve seen entering the charts many times before is obviously working it’s magic for this current monster-hit as well again.

Minimal also implies a not-too-hard to play piano part (which, as I also mention in the end of the video is actually played on a wonderful Rhodes piano).« Continue »

Macklemore – Can’t hold us.

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Yes people, I’ve gone mad, bad and sadly very, very commercial on this one. The thing is, I got such a lot of requests to make a lesson for this song, that, when realising it’s actually quite a cool tune to learn for both beginners and ‘über-pop’-lovers alike ON TOP OF the fact that it [...]

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Get Lucky – Perfectly daft demonstration of pattern-use

Get Lucky

Now this one is funky. I think this lesson demonstrates perfectly, how using and adding different patterns can totally transform a piano-part. First, using and learning the original piano part from this track (that what the actual piano plays on the record), we’ll get to know the chords and how to lay ‘em down nicely [...]

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Do for love – Extension notes and transposition lesson.

Do for love

Two songs for the price of one! An all time favourite of mine. In both versions I might add. I fell in love with this song as a teenager when I first heard it in 2pac’s hip-hop version. What a beat. What a groove. What a sweet, sweet Rhodes. The Bobby Caldwell version, another absolute [...]

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Stevie Wonder is happy. Overjoyed, even!

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For those of you that are progressing nicely with the course and / or chord- and pattern-knowledge: here’s a nice challenge for ya! Another beautiful ‘advanced’ piano song.

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