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I'm excited to share that Crash Course in Pop Piano is BACK! I first launched this live workshop back in 2021 and people LOVED it. I have now updated it and made it even more effective, efficient and easy-to-use.This 90 minute live workshop is running twice: Thursday, March 30th at Friday, March 31st and you can attend either day or both days (same workshop both times).
You will learn: pop chords and voicings
Accompaniment strategies that work for a TON of songs
How to replicate your favorite recordings
How to play simple fills and improvised solos.
This course is perfect for beginners through advanced level pianists and is ideal for singers, songwriters and accompanists. Whether you love oldies, soft rock, country music, contemporary pop or all of the above, you will walk away from this workshop with a clear blueprint on how to sound really good playing pop piano.
I have harnessed my 25+ years as a piano bar entertainer and the hundreds of lessons in pop piano I have taught to make this a one of a kind experience.
Sign up today and get the Early Bird rate of only $70.
This includes:
Attendance to either/both of the live workshops
Meticulously notated course book
30 days access to the replay
BONUS: Chord mastery tutorial, printable and chord cheat sheets
There are only 30 seats available, so sign up ASAP. (My last three workshops sold out in 7 days!)
theversatilemusician.teachable.com/p/crash-course-in-pop-piano-accompaniment
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#TBT to my first week as a cruise ship piano bar entertainer back in 2000. I was living in Toronto at this time and after a bad breakup I was ready to take my life in a different direction.I quit my lucrative ballet pianist job, gave up my apartment, put everything into storage and packed a suitcase.
At this point in my life, all of my musical experience was wrapped up in classical piano and jazz piano. I had only started singing two years earlier and I was GREEN.
The worst part? I only knew about 10 pop songs. I was TERRIFIED that I was going to get fired, so I vowed to figure out how to be the best damn singalong piano bar entertainer that @norwegiancruiseline had ever seen.
I gathered all of my CDs and a notebook and learned 700 songs in 11 weeks. I went from being vaguely aware of artists like @billyjoel and @eltonjohn and became intimately aware with their catalogues. I played 4-7 hours a day, seven days a week and went from being a novice singer/pianist to being a damn fine one.
I then went on to do a total of 19 months over 5 ships, saving enough money to fulfill my lifelong dream to move to NYC and to pay for a good chunk of my fancy master's degree from @manhattanschoolofmusic.
The lessons I learned from that experience stay with me and have made me the musician and educator I am today.
Want to learn how to play pop piano like a pro? I'm running a live Zoom workshop on March 30/31 called Crash Course in Pop Piano, where I teach you the secrets of how to play authentic pop piano. Perfect for pianists of any level and IDEAL for singers! Link in bio or shoot me a DM and I'll tell you more!
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I'm excited to share that Crash Course in Pop Piano is BACK! I first launched this live workshop back in 2021 and people LOVED it. I have now updated it and made it even more effective, efficient and easy-to-use.This 90 minute live workshop is running twice: Thursday, March 30th at Friday, March 31st and you can attend either day or both days (same workshop both times).
You will learn: pop chords and voicings
Accompaniment strategies that work for a TON of songs
How to replicate your favorite recordings
How to play simple fills and improvised solos.
This course is perfect for beginners through advanced level pianists and is ideal for singers, songwriters and accompanists. Whether you love oldies, soft rock, country music, contemporary pop or all of the above, you will walk away from this workshop with a clear blueprint on how to sound really good playing pop piano.
I have harnessed my 25+ years as a piano bar entertainer and the hundreds of lessons in pop piano I have taught to make this a one of a kind experience.
Sign up today and get the Early Bird rate of only $70.
This includes:
Attendance to either/both of the live workshops
Meticulously notated course book
30 days access to the replay
BONUS: Chord mastery tutorial, printable and chord cheat sheets
There are only 30 seats available, so sign up ASAP. (My last three workshops sold out in 7 days!)
Sign up now: theversatilemusician.teachable.com/purchase?product_id=4661193
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