Piano Lessons by Sam Gutman

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• Anynomous

  18 August 2019

  Stumbled across this nice melody and chords

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• Anynomous

  26 July 2019

  I first started learning this ragtime piece when I was the piano player in the dance classes at Stockton College. From a technical perspective, this piece forces you to be able to play complicated right hand parts without concentrating on your right hand; to put it on "auto-pilot" , so to speak. I have found this principal to be at the foundation of what it means to develop "hand independence". From a theoretical perspective, this piece stretches normal diatonic harmony with secondary dominants. I hope to develop the ability to implement both of these concepts during improvisation, which is why I learned this piece.

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• Anynomous

  27 October 2018

  I love to teach kids to improvise and write music as early as possible. Here is a song called "Everything is Cool" from my lesson with an 8 year old the other day. We went back and forth improvising lyrics about things that are cool while she played the chords.

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• Anynomous

  14 October 2018

  One of my favorite things to work on with my students is composition, and arranging. I recently had the pleasure of arranging and performing a whole set of Beatles songs for my trio, Deep Creature. The rabbit hole of "How many different chords could fit this melody note?" and "How many different ways can I play this part?" is nearly endless.

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