60 Master Piano Grooves
Secrets of piano comping revealed. Learn how the professionals play grooves in all styles. Contemporary, Rock & Pop, Jazz and Latin Grooves
"You get a piano score or lead sheet with chords, melody, maybe lyrics and it says: POP/ROCK BALLAD or SHUFFLE or JAZZ FAST TEMPO or REGGAE or...
Now what? What do play? How do you play it? How does a professional piano player sight-read it and immediately plays the song and grooves?
Composer & Pianist Ariel J. Ramos has put together a set of 60 piano grooves for intermediate to advanced piano players which include essential accompaniment concepts in many styles from Rock & Pop to Jazz & Blues/Gospel to Latin & Contemporary.
LESSONS FORMAT
• Short Video (under a minute) in two parts: Explanation & Demo
• Explanatory text
• Piano Sheet Music in PDF
Learn Rock & Pop, Jazz, Blues & Gospel, Latin and Contemporary grooves and how to create them for any song you want to play
All the grooves in this course are based on just a few concepts and often-used techniques, which are used repeatedly throughout.
Articulations, accents, shuffle, swing or even eighths: These concepts are probably the most important when comping. Rhythm is not only determined by where you place the notes, but by "how" you place them. We will use accents, staccatos, portatos (long and short notes) slurs, legato, ghost notes and other kind of articulations to obtain the groove we want.
Are you ready? Here you have 60 lessons for the price of half of one.
Let's go, take your piano playing to the next level.
Your Instructor
Ariel is a Film Composer, Pianist, Educator and Music App Developer at mDecks Music
He is a Berklee College of Music graduate with a degree in Film Scoring.
Ariel started his career as a pianist. In 1997 he moved to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music. His credits in the film industry include titles such as Pushing Daisies and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Warner Brothers)
In 2006 he founded mDecks Music where he develops music education apps. He's the creator of Mapping Tonal Harmony Pro and Tessitura Pro among more than 20 music apps available on the App Store.
He
is now established in Florida composing music for film, TV and chamber
music, developing music apps, teaching music and performing jazz and chamber music in the area.
Course Curriculum
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StartRock, Pop Groove 1. "Quiet Nights". The left hand pulse (0:44)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 2. "Steady Walk". Breaking the chords in ballads (0:52)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 3. "Steady Walk 2". Alternative chord breaking pattern for ballads (0:41)
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PreviewRock, Pop Groove 4. "The Gates". Using articulations to create the correct groove (0:41)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 5. "The Source" A study in syncopation. (0:44)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 6. "The Source 2" Intermediate Syncopation (0:34)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 7. "The Source 3" Advanced Syncopation (0:37)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 8. "Away" Bass pickup notes in rock ballads (0:43)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 9. "By The Lake" Pickup notes on the right hand (0:51)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 10. "Mystic Valley" Doubling Voicings and the 3+3+2 broken pattern (0:44)
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StartPop, Rock Groove 11. "Mountain View" Fast double stops and syncopated bass (0:49)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 12. "Riff Crust" Using riffs built on the current chord (1:15)
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StartPop, Rock Groove 13. "The Lake" Chord anticipation, right left hand alternation (0:50)
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StartPop, Rock Groove 14. "Bread Crumbs" Syncopation over the sixteenth note (0:56)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 15. "Green Dolphin" Leaving the one out. Harmonic Anticiaption (0:44)
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StartRock, Pop Groove 16. "Your Story" Chord interlocking and rolling eighths (0:40)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 1. "Salt and Pepper" standard rock groove with ghost notes (1:00)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 2. "Salt Shaker" standard rock groove with ghost notes and tremolo (1:01)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 3. "Salt and Sugar" an entire 12-bar blues form using the rock groove (0:58)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 4. "Lazy Snare" shuffle eighth-notes with walking bassline (0:38)
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PreviewJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 5. "Morning" Jazz ballad groove (0:48)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 6. "Minor" Jazz ballad advanced groove (0:49)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 7. "Blue Rivers" 12/8 groove by trageting the 1st and 2nd beat alternatively (0:40)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 8. "Blue Rivers 2" 12/8 alternative targeting (0:37)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 9. "Blue Rivers 3" 12/8 advanced targeting with variations and pickup notes (0:40)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 10. "Softly" Ballad with pickup notes and left arpeggios (0:50)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 11. "Bobs Stomp" Shuffle stomp rhythmic syncopation using alternation between left and right (0:40)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 12. "Cold Train" Medium-Fast Jazz with one standard rhythm and walking bassline (0:38)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 13. "Cold Train 2" Medium-Fast Jazz with anticiaption and walking bassline (0:40)
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StartJazz, Blues & Gospel Groove 14. "Cold Train 3" Rhythmic shifting (0:42)