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Volume VI
(See our New Series page for Volumes 7-10) "Learn the Essentials of Piano Volume 1 - Piano Video/DVD"
Piano Lesson 1 orients you to the keyboard, naming the notes, and the challenge of keeping time. Piano Lesson 2 introduces the concept of scales, focusing on the major scales and their fingering. Piano Lesson 3 gives suggestions on how you can rearrange scales and apply them when improvising, with Talc supplying the chordal rhythmic background. Piano Lesson 4 gives you an understanding of how all the major and minor
chords are based on the scales you have learned. It then applies
them to an actual piece of music, Pachelbel's Canon. Piano Lessons 5 and
6 take four chords and show step-by-step the variety you can express
through rhythm. Methods of using simple bass lines are also worked
in with the chords. 
"Learn the Essentials of Piano Volume 2 - Piano Video/DVD"
Keyboard lesson Volume 2 builds on the information presented in Volume I, expanding your understanding of chords to include augmented, suspended and diminished chords. You gain hands-on experience of sixty, three-note chords. The major portion of the tape teaches you the process of figuring out a song by ear from a recording. This is made significantly easier because the theory is applied to an actual song. Using the Beatles tune "With a Little Help From my Friends," Talc shows you how to hear melody and chord changes and how to voice and invert chords. This tape gets you started in developing the skills you'll need to become a street-smart musician. Once you have the ability to figure out how to play tunes you hear, everything recorded becomes your teacher and a source for your musical development.(Available in VHS or DVD format) Order Now! "Learn the Essentials of Piano Volume 3 - Piano Video/DVD"
Keyboard lesson Volume III is an introduction to the blues. You will go a step further in your understanding of chords by learning four different note chords: major 7ths, dominant 7ths, minor 7ths, and minor 7ths b5s. This will add 48 more chords to your repertoire. Some of these will be used in the following lessons in the blues. The major and minor pentatonic scales are also covered. These form a basis for improvisation. Talc patiently illustrates numerous standard "licks." You can then recombine these musical motifs to form your own. Talc teaches you various standard blues progressions as well as some of his own. He then introduces some more intricate bass lines. This is a very interactive tape, proving that you don't need years of study to make music. You'll feel like a musician jamming with Talc throughout the keyboard lessons on this tape!(Available in VHS or DVD format) Order Now!
"Learn the Essentials of PianoVolume 4 - Piano Video/DVD"
The first half of this tape is an exercise tape, which will develop speed, strength, and independent hand movement. Talc demonstrates how some of these exercises will aid you in writing your own music and developing your own improvisational lines. More advanced scale work, arpeggios, and patterns are shown. The second half of the tape goes more in depth with chords, covering 9ths, 11ths, 13ths, and chords based on 4th intervals. The tape closes with chord resolutions.(Available in VHS or DVD format) Order Now! "Learn the Essentials of Piano Volume 5 - Piano Video/DVD" With all the information presented in the prior four volumes, you are now ready to write your own music! This tape covers the most popular song forms and how to approach beginning and completing a song. Specific suggestions are illustrated using 10ths, progressions, pedal tones, bass lines and repetitive rhythmic lines, aided by the use of drum patterns and a sequencer. "Learn the Essentials of Piano Volume 6 - Piano Video/DVD" This piano tape is a demonstration showing how to demo a tune. Talc takes you right through from the beginning of a tune to the completed version. He introduces you to the benefits of a sequencer and how it is an integral part of song-writing and production today. Multitrack recording is also used to further layer and fill out the composition. |
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