Introducing myself

[pianoguy1972]

Hello fellow pianoplayers,

My name is Wouter and I'm a 38-year-old guy from the Netherlands.
I haven't had that much experience playing the piano, except from when I was about 12 when I took for a year some private piano lessons. I regrettably had to stop because the teacher felt I was a hopeless case for not being able to seperate my lefthand from my right hand independently.:(

About 3 years ago I bought a yamaha keyboard called Tyros2, which can also function as a piano. I bought a few learningbooks with basic chords and worked my way up to playing from fakebooks.

Lately I felt my playing was lacking in the sense that I want it to get a more natural flow and also use chords with my right hand in stead of only using my left hand.

I purchased and completed the beginner's bundle and recently got the song "Georgia on my Mind" in the hope to get a more practical approach to what I've learned so far.

Greetings happy playing:D

Wouter

[charlie58]

Hi Wouter,

You came to the right place with Willie's website. His advanced jazz and Blues DVD gets into some really good right hand work. You will be dealing with the rootless 7th voicings. It boils down to the 3rd or the 7th (the tritones) on the bottom and the 9th and 13th. It goes thru 4 different progressions, each, developing on the one before it. It is a really good DVD. You can also snag some great left hand work from it. Willie didn't write out the left hand, but that is what the pause button is for on the DVD player. A piece of paper and a pencil can get you some great left hand walking ideas.
Also you can't go wrong with Chords vol 2 and vol 3. The modulations and progressions DVD should be in everyone's library. No way around that.
Last but not least, do not give that first piano teacher of yours a second thought, that should never of happened with someone who could actually teach.

Charlie

[pianoguy1972]

Thanks for the reply Charlie, I think the dvd's you mentioned will sure come in handy once I get the hang of the dvd's I have so far...I still consider myself a beginner in that respect.

I really like Willy Myette´s learing approach on the dvd´s. I keep playing them over and over again and every time I think I grasped everything that was mentioned, I come accross something new....

I think that with my latest purchase of the song ´Georgia on my Mind´, I can apply already some of my ´acquired skills´ I picked up from volume 1 of the chordsdvd:) we´ll see....I still have to start but don´t have that much spare time between work and my family.

I am glad my pianoteacher was wrong in that I am now able to play both hands independent from each other....so I got to prove him wrong and who knows where it can take me with additional dvdlessons=;)

Wouter

[glimmer]

Thats the great thing about the dvd lessons; the repeat value !! You get Willie's consistent enthusiasm and patience with multiple viewings. If you have a private lesson with someone, you try to remember everything but sometimes little tips or points may get forgotten unless you're recording the lesson to audio at the time.

If its a one-off workshop, you try & absorb everything so you don't have to spend another $40 - $60 to pick up the rest in another session. With JPL dvds you get a full hour of information which you can study in great detail; and if you really get stuck on something you can always contact Willie about it.