Click the image above to visit the site I used to wonder how in the world good piano players knew which chords to use in a song — when there was no music in front of them. They would play song after song effortlessly without ever looking at a piece of sheet music.
I remember a man in Hollywood named Dave who was known as "THE piano teacher". Big names — recording artists — took lessons from him. Students and others sitting around the room in his studio on Cahuenga Blvd. (between Sunset Blvd. and Hollywood Blvd.) would call out songs and Dave would play them one after another. If he didn’t know the song, he would ask them to sing or hum a few bars. Before long he was playing the song with both hands — not just the tune, but harmonizing each melody note with a beautiful chord. I loved it, but I had no idea how he did it.
I was so impressed by his ability to do this that I pumped up my courage and asked him if he would give me private lessons. He said he would, but his prices were out of my league at the time (I was in college). But a few months later during the summer I saved up enough to take 6… Read more…
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