Happy birthday Mozart - and how classical piano can help your improvisation

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In this tutorial I talk about how playing just a bit of classical piano can massively help your jazz, blues and pop playing. It's all about precision, control and getting the two hands working together.

Also, happy birthday Mozart - 256 today!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Piano
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Classical
• piano
• tutorial

[yugoroth1]

and that I'm way off...

[billhiltonbiz]

@yugoroth1 I'm sure he wouldn't mind :) K545 is the C major sonata; this is the middle movement of K283. He wrote so much damn stuff it addles my brain ;)

[EarlOfEs]

Just want to let you know, your videos and book help everyone lots! I'm a student in a conservatory majoring in classical piano, and the stuff you do on your channel always seems like a new world to me every time I improvise! Thanks very much!

[billhiltonbiz]

@EarlOfEs Thanks - glad you like it. I envy you your classical skills :)

[chopper84a]

btw bill you play this quite beautifully. You must have a classical backround?

[billhiltonbiz]

@chopper84a Thanks! I had 10 years of classical lessons, though I only went to ABRSM Grade 6 (of 8). I wish I'd worked harder on my classics as a teenager...!

[yugoroth1]

Happy birthday and a month later! :D (I found the title really is Sonata K.545 and I am glad I got it right!)

[yugoroth1]

Isn't that Eschenbach?

[sonicthehedgehogxp]

Im still a bit new to piano and I am improving everytime I practice.

I have a question, how do people run arpegios and scales up and down the piano with one hand with no pause?

[JeroenvanKleef]

@piann00b, I can advise The Book, which has a load of tunes in it from realbook to musical and music from different countries in it that helped me out.