Solo Through The Modes On Piano

What you'll learn
Play your own solos over your favorite songs
Be able to use transition notes and shapes to move fluidly across the keys
Get a comprehensive understanding of the seven modes and how they work together
Turn notes on the piano into crafted lead lines, riffs and solos
Requirements
A basic understanding of piano - including names of notes and chords - will help you navigate this course! This is for beginner musicians looking to start intermediate content.
Description
Have you been playing the piano for a while, but wondering how to begin soloing? Maybe you're comfortable with chords and some single notes - but don't know how to translate those into creating your own riffs? This is the course for you! In "Solo Through the Modes on Piano," I'll take you through the first concepts needed to begin playing your own solos.This course focuses on the mode shapes on the keys. The modes are seven unique shapes that all fit together to create one master shape that covers the tones in a key. The master shape can be used as a guide for knowing which notes fit into that key - and we can solo within that shape! We're also able to solo within the seven individual shapes, using each one in a different context, as each one has their own "feel" or "vibe." We'll be covering the shapes themselves, but also how they fit together with one another, how they fit into a parent key, and the "feel" of each one.Finally, knowing the shapes is a wonderful thing - but we're going to learn how to use them! We'll be covering two tools to turn our shapes into solos, called transition notes and chromatic notes.We'll also talk about how we can manipulate riffs we create to...

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