by Jeff Lantz | Feb 19, 2023 | Lessons
This is the second in a video series designed to give you creative options when transitioning between chords in a song. Download the free pdf for this lesson Most any song includes common chord changes. In this video, I demonstrate several options for adding some...
by Jeff Lantz | Jan 21, 2023 | Lessons
This video is the second in a series designed to develop your knowledge and use of chord inversions. Most beginning students start out learning and playing simple major and minor triads in root position. However, each of these triads has inversions, which are the same...
by Jeff Lantz | Jan 14, 2023 | Lessons
Introducing the MGF Technique exercise. to download a pdf copy of this lesson click...
by Jeff Lantz | Jan 7, 2023 | Lessons
Most beginning students start out learning and playing simple major and minor triads in root position. However, each of these triads has inversions, which are the same set of notes stacked differently than the root position. If you only know the root positions of...
by Jeff Lantz | May 11, 2021 | Lessons
One year. Do it, get it done, get it behind you, so you can move on to new challenges. Just about everyone has fantasized about being able to play piano by ear, to play what we want, play what we hear in our heads. But probably none of us has ever fantasized about...
by Jeff Lantz | Apr 19, 2021 | Lessons
In this lesson we build on Part One. Download the free pdf that comes with this...
by Jeff Lantz | Apr 11, 2021 | Lessons
Download the free pdf that comes with this...
by Jeff Lantz | Apr 4, 2021 | Lessons
One year. Do it, get it done, get it behind you, so you can move on to new challenges. Just about everyone has fantasized about being able to play piano by ear, to play what we want, play what we hear in our heads. But probably none of us has ever fantasized about...
by Jeff Lantz | Mar 11, 2021 | Lessons
Dominant 7th chords are also called 7th chords as well as Major-Minor chords. In the accompanying video I present a “counting” method to quickly count the distance between the 4 notes of a dominant 7th chord, in half-step increments. The formula is...
by Jeff Lantz | Mar 4, 2021 | Lessons
One year. Do it, get it done, get it behind you, so you can move on to new challenges. Just about everyone has fantasized about being able to play piano by ear, to play what we want, play what we hear in our heads. But probably none of us has ever fantasized about...