Saturday, January 24, 2009

Playing with Scott Houston

One of the happiest , most fulfilling things personally that I do, is play the piano. I had taken piano lessons some over the years, but couldn't play, until I studied Scott Houston's course, Play Piano in a Flash. In his course, Scott teaches that most all popular piano players have a "dirty little secret", they simply read and play a one note melody with the right hand, and accompany this by playing chords with the left hand. Furthermore, 90% of all melodies can be accompanied by playing three cords. Sound simple? It is! Of course once you get into playing, you"ll probably want to learn more chords and embellishments, but you don't have to, in order to sit and play those songs in your heart. Scott is on the web and has published a number of books, including several "fake books" showing the easy way to play popular songs. He also has a show on PBS, though I can't get this. The important thing is, if you're one of those people who took piano lessons but didn't learn to play anything, there really is another way, the way that most people that actually play, use, but didn't want you to know about. Now you know...the rest of the story is yours.

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