Professor answers all you want to know about piano, theory, and songwriting

professor answers all you want to know about piano, theory, and songwriting

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best brand of piano?

Is the acoustic piano still a relevant instrument?

Undoubtedly!!!

yes.
look at the number of dueling piano bars skyrocketing in the US.
i make 6 figures playing the piano.

Opinion of Yamaha U3 pianos?

well.. let me think....
NOPE

would you be kind enough to write out some chords for a section of a song i'm having a hard time figuring out?

gogogogo

actually i have some of it down but the chord extensions are sort of hard for me to decipher so whatever chords you just want to throw out there that you hear from 6:44-8:12 would be greatly appreciated:

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should be easy for you

Since you say you know about theory and songwriting, I'd like to know about why I find some of the following songs catchy or earworms.
I'll start with two popular ones:
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My favorite part musically being the "make it that much better/stay together" verse.
youtube.com/watch?v=7uEBuqkkQRk
The pre-chorus should be easy to explain to me, but the chorus is my favorite part.

what's the most patrician chord progression

How do you properly resolve a a Gr6+ chord when using it as a pivot chord?

What are the most beautiful and intelligent classical piano peces?

Why wouldn't it be? It's the best there is, no synth or digital piano will ever compare.

iimaj7 - Vmaj7 - Imaj7

>Wouldn't it be nice
Muh feels

Also, it is because those verses release vocal harmonization at the end, supported by an harmonic progression towards the tonic in the next phrase. Essentially, minor chord, tension chords, dominant (tension too) and then tonic.

Where do I begin with learning jazz?

opinions on Bösendorfer?

how do i come up with songs like yurima

>beautiful AND intelligent
J. S. Bach of course, wohltempererte klavier for instance
listen to the masters of old

>shitty version of 2-5-1

Real "patrician"

I have a really nice chord progression that i need to change out of, so that my song has some variation. what are my options?

I realise i can hold the last chord
start a new progression
drop out altogether and let the backing instruments continue

Any other ideas?

steingraeber und söhne?

Introduce the new progression in other instruments while phasing out the instruments that play the old progression :^)

Recommend me books on Music Theory

damn thats a great idea :) thanks user

This is the worst fad I've never heard of

Where do I begin with writing music in common practice period style?
Species counterpoint? Four-part harmony? I honestly have no idea