Posts by Leslie Young

How to Deal with Music Reading Complainers

How to Deal with Music Reading Complainers

Let’s face it; piano music reading is like reading two languages at the same time. There’s going to be times...

Why Is Interest in the Learning Important?

Why Is Interest in the Learning Important?

Every person has a different level of interest in different things. I love a clean house but detest dusting because...

Why Does the Brain Object to Effort in Learning Piano?

Why Does the Brain Object to Effort in Learning Piano?

The Brain Prefers Flowing Water Around Rocks The brain usually prefers to not work hard in most instances of learning...

How to Quickly Create Chords without Memorizing a Chart: Part 2 Major 3rd

How to Quickly Create Chords without Memorizing a Chart: Part 2 Major 3rd

Last time the focus was on how to create the interval of a perfect 5th on all keys (white and...

How to Quickly Create Chords without Memorizing a Chart

How to Quickly Create Chords without Memorizing a Chart

In the book Teach Yourself to Improvise with Chords you are given a process of a few steps to create...

How to Quickly Improvise with Both Hands with Flats and 3 Beats

How to Quickly Improvise with Both Hands with Flats and 3 Beats

Improvise with Both Hands Here’s another song using 3 beats in a measure when you improvise with both hands. This...

How to Quickly Improvise with Both Hands in 3 Beats

How to Quickly Improvise with Both Hands in 3 Beats

Improvise with Both Hands Here is a simple way to use 3 beats in a measure when you improvise with...

Guidelines to Improvise with Both Hands

Guidelines to Improvise with Both Hands

Improvise with Both Hands Here are the guidelines when you improvise with both hands. These are pages 44 and 45...

How to Improvise Chord Plus the Melody in a Song

How to Improvise Chord Plus the Melody in a Song

Accompaniment for Both Hands Continuing from last week, now it’s time to put both hands together with the sample Ode...

How to Improvise Chord Plus the Melody in a Song

How to Improvise Chord Plus the Melody in a Song

If you missed last week’s blog (February 14), you really should take a look at it so that what comes...