How to Play ORNAMENTS on the Piano - Grace Notes, Turns, Mordents, Trills, Octaves, Thirds & more

Using a simple Piano melody we discuss various techniques which use ornaments (or ornamentations) to embellish a piece of music. All notes are available on our Patreon as a PDF study guide:   / 62380568  

Important Videos which you should watch along with this lesson are listed below:

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Embellish a Piano Melody using Thirds:    • Embellish a Melody USING THIRDS  
How to compose a Melody (Series):    • Create MUSIC on the PIANO  

00:00 Performance
00:37 Introduction
02:18 Let’s learn the Melody (3/4 meter & G minor scale)
04:56 The Melodic Accents
05:37 How to properly play Grace Notes
08:11 “Eastern Vibe” Grace Notes
09:33 “Blues” Grace Notes
10:33 Tune with some Improv
11:26 “Country” Piano Thirds
13:25 The “Random” Country Jam
14:26 “Flamenco Chordal” Melody
17:07 Octave embellishment
17:46 Octaves stacked with Thirds
18:38 Turns
21:57 Turns with Thirds
22:33 Revision of all concepts
24:04 Conclusion

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