How to Play Keyboard

Transcript Hi, I’m Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play minor 7th chords. To find a minor 7th chord, there’s going to be one formula and once you know that formula, you should be able to find it in any key. So what we need for a …

Transcript Hi. I’m Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock. I’ve been playing piano since I was about 5 years old and I studied jazz piano at the New School in New York City. From that point on, I’ve been playing gigs in and around New York City, up and down the East Coast, also …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play an A flat major pentatonic scale. From our A flat major scale, the scale tones that we’re going to pull out are going to be the 1, the 2, the 3, the 5, and the 6, …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomatoes House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play an A flat minor pentatonic scale. So, in the A flat minor scale the tones that we’re going to want to pull out are going to be the 1, the 3, the 4, the 5 and …

Transcript Hi, I’m Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a G major pentatonic scale. So, in the key of G major, the scale tones that we’re going to want to pull out is going to the be 1, the 2, the 3, the 5, and the …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a G minor pentatonic scale. For a G minor, coming from the scale of just a pure G minor, the notes you’re going to want to pull out for a minor pentatonic is going to be …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of rock and I’m going to show you how to play an F sharp major pentatonic scale. F sharp major pentatonic is pretty fun because it’s going to be all black keys. From the major scale, we’re going to pull out the scale tones 1, 2, 3, …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play an F-sharp minor pentatonic scale. For an F-sharp minor pentatonic, coming from the F-sharp minor scale, the tones that we want to pull out are going to be the one, the three, the four, the five, …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomatoes House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play an F major pentatonic scale. For and F major pentatonic scale the formula is going to be 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 and we’ll put the 1 on top again. In the key of F …

Transcript HI. This is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play an F minor pentatonic scale. So, when you’re in the key of F minor, the scale tones that we want for a minor pentatonic are going to be the 1, the 3, the 4, the 5, …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play and E-major pentatonic scale. For the pentatonic major scale, we’re going to pull tones from the E, just regular major scale. Those tones that we need for the formula of the pentatonic scale is going to …

Transcript Hi this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play an E minor pentatonic scale.This is a great one, it’s all white keys and if you’re playing with guitar players, they love to play in the key of E, so this is going to be a …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie, from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play an E flat major pentatonic scale. So, in an E flat major scale, the notes you’re going to want to pull out for a major pentatonic, is going to be the one, the two, the three, …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play an E-flat minor pentatonic scale. This is a really fun one, because it’s actually all black keys. So from the minor scale we’re going to want the one, the three, the four, the five, the flat …

Transcript Hi this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a D major pentatonic scale. In the key of G we’re going to want the 1, the 2, the 3, the 5 and the 6, those are the tones that are going to make up our …

Transcript Hi. This is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play a d minor pentatonic scale. For a d minor pentatonic scale, the scales tones that we’re going to need are is the one, three, four, five, and the seven, which is a flatted seven because it’s …

Transcript Hi, I’m Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a C sharp major pentatonic scale. This is a pretty fun one because when we pull the tones out of the C sharp major scale, we’ve got mostly black keys. We’re going to need the 1, we’re …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a C sharp minor pentatonic scale. So in the key of C sharp minor, we need to find the scale tones one, three, four, five, seven which is a flattened seven when it’s minor, and we’ll …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie, from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a B Major Pentatonic Scale. So in the key of B Major, we’re going to want the one, the two, the three, the five, and the six to make up our Major Pentatonic Scale. So in …

Transcript Hi, I’m Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a B minor pentatonic scale. So, in the key of B minor we’re going to want the 1, the 3, the 4, the 5 and the 7 which is a flatted 7 here so it’s going to …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play a B-flat major pentatonic scale. So, for our B-flat major pentatonic, from our B-flat major scale we’re going to want the one, the two, the three, the five, the six, and then the one back on …

Transcript Hi, I’m Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a B flat minor pentatonic scale. In the key of B flat minor the notes that we’re going to pull out, we’re going to need the 1, the 3, the 4, the 5, and the 7; which …

Transcript Hi, I’m Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play an A Major pentatonic scale. So to find the notes from pentatonic scale, we’re just going to use the major scale and pull out the specific tones from that. The combination for a major pentatonic scale is …

Transcript Hi this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play the A minor pentatonic scale.This is a nice easy one; it’s all white keys because it’s actually the relative minor to C major which means C major, all white keys, A minor is going to have …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to solo using patterns from the pentatonic scale. So the pentatonic scale lends itself really nicely to playing little patterns and taking them up and down. It just really creates a great sound and it’s pretty simple to …

Transcript Hi, I’m Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and here are some tips for comping with your left hand. If you’re comping with your left that means that there’s a bass player which really opens up your options because you’re not responsible for kind of laying down the root or even really laying down …

Transcript Hi. This is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a funk base line. When you’re thinking about funk, it’s all about rhythm, and you can really get a lot of mileage out of just playing octaves and really thinking about playing them almost like they’re …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomatoes House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play a walking baseline. So, we’re gonna use our left hand, and let’s do this in the key of C. There’s basically 2 things you want to think about when you’re starting a walking baseline. The first …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play a bass line while comping. So, for this one, I think we’ll do it in the funk style, because there’s really a lot that you can do between the two hands with funk because it is …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a common jazz comping rhythm. So when it comes to jazz, a lot of it is all about the off-beats. The off-beats are if you were counting a measure of four, we would have one, two, …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play some common blues comping rhythms. Let’s look at our left hand because the left hand really drives the blues, especially for the keyboard. So we’re just going to start in the key of C. We’re going …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to comp in funk. So, again, just to go over it, comp actually means accompany. So this is what you want to be playing when somebody else is taking a solo, or if you’re just building up your …

Transcript Hi. This is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock and here is how to comp in the blues. So there are lots of variations in the blues comp. We’re going to look at a really common one. So let’s check out the left hand first. Just in the key of C, we’re going …

Transcript And here’s another way to comp in jazz. So, as I said before, there really are a million variations. So, this is just one more that you can add to your collection of things. Let’s try this one in the key of C. So, again, if you’re in the key of C, the 1 …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock. And I’m going to show you how to comp in jazz. So, first of all, comp is actually short for accompanying. So this is when somebody else is taking a solo and you’re just there to back them up. You’re really considered part of …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie, from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I am going to show you how to play dominant 7 chord. Like pretty much everything else; especially with the piano and scales, there is a formula and once you know the formula you can basically play a dominant 7 chord anywhere on the …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to give you some tips for improvising. Improvising really opens up your imagination, to take you wherever you want to take your audience, take the other musicians that you’re playing with. It’s so open, you can really take it anywhere which …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock, and here’s another lick to try. We’re going to use a rhythm pattern called a triplet, and that basically just means if our beat is one, two, three, four, what you want to be playing inside those beats is going to be one-two-three, two-two-three, …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you another lick on the keyboard. So this one is really versatile. You can really use in just about any genre. It’s going to include double stop that we talked about earlier. So what we’re going to have, we’re …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to play a lick. This one specifically is really good for either rock style or jam style. It can feel a little tricky, but as long as you start slow it’ll get in your fingers and you’ll …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders, from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to comp with your left hand, while soloing with your right hand. So, this is an extremely broad topic, and you’ll learn there’s 100 million different ways to comp with your left hand. Since this is beginner, …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play a funk solo. So, when we think about funk as opposed to the blues or jazz or even rock, my favorite thing to think about is “space is the place”. Because, basically, the best thing …

Transcript Hi. This is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to play a jazz solo. So when you’re thinking about a jazz solo, there are tons of options. There are tons of scales to use. There are tons of techniques. There are tons of rhythms. So, rather …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to do a blues solo. So, the most crucial thing when you’re playing a blues solo is really knowing the blues form. So, let’s look at it in the key of C. There’s a specific pattern that …

Transcript Hi. This is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to use octaves in your solo. So what I basically mean by that is sometimes you can take a very simple pattern. But if you move it to different octaves it can create a really nice effect …

Transcript Hi this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomatoes House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to use a rhythmic motif in a solo. So we’ve already looked at a melodic motif in a different video but now we’re going to think about motifs which also can mean pattern in a rhythmic way. …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to use a motif in a solo. Specifically, for right now, we’re going to use what’s called a melodic motif. So we’re going to find something small that feels good. I’m going to say, let’s do this …

Transcript Hi this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to use Call and Response technique in a solo. Call and Response that really means having a conversation. You can use it two ways. You can use it for yourself, and your own solo where you’re thinking …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock. I am going to show you how to use a tremolo in your solo. This is a great sound and a great effect that the piano can get. It’s basically just moving really quickly between two notes. A very common one is doing octaves. …

Transcript Hi, this is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock and I’m going to show you how to use a double stop in your solo. Double stop, all that really means is either adding the one or the five to the other notes that you’re already playing in the scale. If you’re in the …

Transcript Hi. This is Stephanie Sanders from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show you how to use the blue note in a solo. The blue note can also be called the flat five, or the sharp four. I’m going to show this to you in the C-minor pentatonic scale. And for a …

Transcript Hi, I’m Stephanie Sanders, from Tomato’s House of Rock, and I’m going to show a C major pentatonic scale. So in the key of C, it’s nice and easy. We’ve got all white keys. Because we’re pulling tones from the major scale, and a C major scale just has all white keys. So from …

Transcript Hi, it’s Stephanie from Tomatoes House of Rock; and I’m going to show you how to play a C Minor Pentatonic scale. To play a Pentatonic scale in the key of C Minor, we’re going to want the one, the three, the four, the five and the seven, which in the minor scale is …