In this free sample lesson from Introduction to Improvising on the Piano, we explore the landscape of our keyboard using the smallest interval in our musical system: the half step. We practice moving across our musical landscape, connecting all of the notes as one long unbroken chain of half steps.
In this free sample lesson from Introduction to Improvising on the Piano, we will master moving around our instrument by whole steps. Once we have mastered both the half step and the whole step, we can use these intervals to build the notes of any key on our instrument.
In this lesson I will show you what I believe to be the single most important concept for understanding all modern harmony. This tool will be essential to our ability to understand music by ear and to express the sounds we imagine.