The site will focus on how to add chords, fills, and runs based on music theory. It is not a play piano be ear site, but people who play by ear can still pick up some very useful information. The main target group are people who can read music and want to learn to enhance their piano playing by adding these exciting embellishments to their piano playing.

Most piano teachers only teach students how to read music and do not teach how to add anything extra to a student’s playing. Of course they teach other valuable things such as phrasing, fingering, proper use of the pedal and other techniques.

They just don’t teach students how to add chords, runs, and fills to their playing. When playing classical music, you should play the pieces as written and not improvise. But, that is not the purpose of this blog.

Our desire is that you will begin to be able to add chords to your piano playing without so much effort on your part. It will be surprising how easy you will begin to add chords to your piano playing.

You will also learn music theory and the way you add the chords, runs, and fills will be based on music theory. You will be doing the same thing that the people who play by ear do except that you will be learning a piano chording system.

There will be some things that you will need to memorize. However, you will begin with the basics and build upon this. The basic building blocks are chords and scales. You will learn to recognize chords by looking at the notes on the music staff. Some popular music has the chords written in the music.

Everything will be explained about how to determine what the chord is. You begin by learning the scales, the main chords, and the chord inversions for one key. Then you learn how to add these to your piano playing.

This is not a “play piano by ear” piano blog but when you learn the system, people will think that you are playing by ear because you are playing all those notes that are not written on the paper.

The most important thing for you to do is to make a commitment to learn how to play gospel piano. This means practicing on a regular basis, learning the piano theory taught, and applying it to your piano playing.

Even though this blog discusses playing gospel piano, the techniques can be applied to other genres of music. Most of the hymns that will discussed are from public domain. Also, it is easier to learn to recognize the chords when you are given all four parts.

Please let us know what your frustrations are in trying to add additional notes and chords to your piano playing. Also, tell us what are some things that you need help with in playing the piano, especially in playing the piano for church.

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