Piano Lesson 6: Improvisation in C

hi welcome to lesson number six I'm Lee Turner Turner family band and Turner family band shares and I was going to show you some things a little different of a lesson maybe than the ones I've done before I was going to show you about how I used the key of C to help me to be able to write some songs so let me show you on the keyboard how the key of C makes things a little easier than any other key on the keyboard we remember the key of C is right in the middle and last lesson I showed you how to do some warm-up exercises just to get your fingers moving three over there and I've shown you that the key of C that chord I've shown you the a minor chord I've shown you an F chord I've shown you a G chord I've even shown you a d chord I think we even briefly touched on a B flat chord but tonight what I'm going to talk about is how C the benefit of it not having to use any black notes in a lot of ways can give you access to a whole lot of minor chords that can make a song um feel really moving if you push your sustain pedal and you're just playing the notes foreign all I'm doing is that's F there's G really all I'm doing is playing around with these white notes make yourself get comfortable with the beauty of the sound of the piano thank you so when I was 15 16 years old some they were around that 14 I had about a keyboard that was maybe about the size of this in the in my room and I would sit on the floor and I would try to just put some cords together that sounded good and I'm going to give you some of those here's C of course we've learned that I'm hitting the bass note with C you can do in a whole octave if you want to you can do a whole chord if you want to foreign but what I pretty much do when I'm playing a slower song is not really hit a whole lot of bass um as far as it doesn't have to have the whole base cord so the very deep sounds aren't always hit together but if I was going to show you some chords I'd hit some of the white notes let's go to the A Minor remember skip down one I'm hitting up another octave another octave so you'll see I'm hitting just the fifth here like if I was going to hit the chord and I'm hitting some of the notes of that chord and then I go up a little bit to the next a that's a remember a b c d e f g a it's even up there if you wanted to move up another one so all I'm doing is playing around with these notes so then we know f I've shown you f so here's g go up one so we've got C we know the key uh the chord of f and g and a minor so get comfortable with the beauty of some of the other ones let's go up to a D minor and it is simply since you've learned the D we're going to go down one step in the middle a half step in the middle and here we are it's just a D minor chord so if I'm gonna play c c all I'm doing is playing some of these notes that make up this D minor chord so then there's another we've talked about a minor foreign another chord that you can play and add in the C chord family that is E minor if we were going to talk about a major chord that would be the normal e that you would play in a different set of family of chords but if you want to have some minors at your disposal here is an E minor C D E minor f g a b which is really just an inverted G and there's B minor C so you can kind of work your way up now to me the B doesn't sound as good because really B minor includes a black note but you actually can just make it like a g did you see I just did that inverted g g b or b d g or g b d foreign so the beauty of the key of C is that if you want to play around with it e I'm back at Sea so c b which is an inverted G A minor G major f major E minor D Minor C d e d c d minor E minor F major c f c F A minor D minor g f g a minor f g a minor f g c so sometimes when we are praying and I'm having to just kind of play some music that's filler that's what I'm doing now you can do it in other keys but if you're a beginner or if you're wanting to expand your ability to play Beyond some of just the notes that are being read That's things you can do is figure out all these chords that go in their families I'm showing you C so C D Minor E minor F major and if you don't um say the a descriptor assume that it is Major so C C Major D Minor you always would have to denote that it would be a minor e would be E minor because we're not hitting the major so E minor F major G major a minor B which is really G C major who learn to do to do things [Music] those things are becoming easier and easier so all I really want you to do warm up maybe with some things do a little bit of inversions remember inversions are just moving the notes around so c e g and then you'll do e g c and then you'll do g c e thank you F keep going if you mess up any the only person who really heard it was that really picky person inside your own head maybe some that listen to me sometimes pick me apart but most of you are so very appreciative and thank you for that G oh but Lee I can't do it didn't just play around on the keyboard sure you can just start playing by an A Minor f G make yourself even miss just play chords do it light g hit your sustain f so that's kind of how I started just writing some different Melodies because as you play sometimes you'll maybe just hear some of your own words or you'll hear some of your own Melodies and start to do that Lord I love you yes I do see Lord you're everything to me f minor but I worship you D minor for every day I worship that was G and now to see you so I'm trying to get you to realize that your soul can absolutely sing to the Lord play to the Lord worship Him in your own way maybe it's not for every time you go to the church maybe it's not for every time that the dogs bark and you don't know what to do with them but it is for the Lord to help us and bless us and that's what we want out of this whole lesson the truth is is you're going to hear some dogs barking in these they sit behind me and if anybody comes in that front door they're gonna make sure you know it and so I live in a real home with real people and real dogs and Sophie now is making sure that I am protected and she's safe too he's under the piano she sometimes sits here with me so um this big old German Shepherd also likes for me to protect her and then the little baby likes to yappy bark sometimes but I want you to start feeling that you considered a piano when you've had a really hard day and you can start playing a C chord and move out to any of them remember a b c d e f g ABC you can move to any of those and Skip every other note and just about have a cord that you can play and sing with I think that's a miracle I think that um if you can't ever play anything else but you can sit down and if your heart is breaking or your heart is burdened just be able to say Jesus I love you oh I need you today I don't know where I'd be without you how I could make it today you don't have to record it you don't have to send it to me it may just be your own private worship to the Lord I do that when I feel brokenhearted sometimes I'll just sit down and I'll just let my fingers say what my heart feel and that's what I feel like that the Lord wanted me to give you tonight an ability to know that the key of C you can just about hit any note with a sustain hit the same bass note and help it as far as helper core strength and you'll be able to at least play something for your heart to feel put the sustain pedal and just try it if you want to send me something I'd be glad to listen glad to give you some pointers God bless you all let's pray Lord for all of those that are desperately wanting to learn how to play this piano I ask you that you would anoint them anoint their hands God all of us may not be able to read music and I know that some people may be critical of that but Lord all we want to do is worship you and however that worship comes for those of us who can't read and those of us who are able to play a note let that note and those notes Ever After be glory unto your name we love you and praise you in Jesus name amen God bless you

Channel: Lee Turner Music

Views: 4,944

Keywords:

Id: C2YNagYuuZQ

Length: 15min 43sec (943 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 11 2023