Yes, You Can Learn From a Piano DVD
Maybe you are looking for a way to start playing the piano but are not quite ready to hire an instructor. Maybe you are a more advanced piano player and want to explore new types of music. A piano DVD could be just what you need. Here are 3 of the most popular piano DVD choices.
10 Easy Lessons! Piano Beginner book, CD and DVD set hosted by Gary Turner.
An easy to follow and user friendly introduction to chord and melody playing, this is best for children under 5 who have just begun piano playing. It contains lessons with favorite childhood songs which makes it more fun for young music students. A colorful paperback story book comes with the DVD and CD and this will encourage student participation. Parents can even include the piano lessons in story time and as bedtime music.
Dr. Johns – Piano Bundle Pack: Dr. John Teaches New Orleans Piano – Volume 1
This DVD pack is geared more towards the experienced piano player and offers the more advanced musician to explore the unique and soulful world of New Orleans blues and boogie. The sessions of this piano DVD feel personal and intimate as the student follows as Dr. John, one of the Big Easys greatest talents, guides them through developing their own personal style. This DVD will surely help the blossoming blues artist master his or her own licks, rhythms, turnarounds and runs and is packed full of awe-inspiring piano playing. This DVD set has become world renown and received this review from Time Magazine “Just sit back and watch Dr. John work his way through the likes of “C.C. Rider” and Pine Top Boogie” you will have got a graduate degree in soul.”
A Lesson with Steve Allen: An Introduction to Jazz Piano
Though most people remember Steve Allen as a comedian, author and as the original host of The Tonight Show, his abilities as an accomplished jazz pianist were possibly his most inspiring talent of all. On this piano DVD Steve Allen shows the beginner jazz pianist how to add their own flair and style to simpler jazz pieces. With comprehensive and thorough step by step lessons, the viewer is shown specific valuable skills such as fake runs, octave vibrato and trills. There is even time devoted to showing the viewer how to build arrangements and how to play basic blues such as stride, walking basses and the use of 10ths.
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