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	<description>tips &#38; tricks for the rhythmically &#38; harmonically-challenged</description>
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		<title>Creative Piano Ad!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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What a brilliant and creative tear-off piano advertisement! Now, if one were to make an 88-key version&#8230;
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;
Courtesy of 9GAG &#8211; What the Fun!
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		<title>Hiromi: The Solo Piano Sorcery of Place To Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From its very first moments — a machine-gun volley of perfectly-timed notes, frenetically joyous and angular — you can tell that Hiromi’s Place To Be is anything but another sleepy, contemplative solo piano album. In fact, filling the space left by her excellent regular bandmates, the young jazz fusion keyboardist&#8217;s musical energy manifests even more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Piano Playing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[contemporary piano styles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While waiting for my next blog post, enjoy some clips from this Brit by the name of Paul W. Wells &#8212; he apparently is a software engineer by day! &#8212; who plays fantastic contemporary piano styles on his digital stage piano.
On most pieces he sets up a split on his Roland piano so that the right side or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Chinese New Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Dear Readers,
Gong Xi, Gong Xi! Gong Xi Fa Cai! 
May You Have Good Health, More Wealth and an Abundance of Wisdom This Lunar New Year 2010!
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		<title>Free E-book &#8220;7 Ways to Become a Better Pop/Jazz Pianist&#8221; is Ready!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mypianoriffs.com/855/free-e-book-7-ways-to-become-a-better-popjazz-pianist-is-ready/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[YEAH!!! My free 30-page e-book 7 Ways to Become a Better Pop/Jazz Pianist is finally ready to go! All confirmed subscribers should have received an e-mail from me with a downloadable attachment of the e-book.
For those who have not done so yet, just go ahead and sign up for your personal copy today. It&#8217;s free, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analyses of Minor Key Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Harmonic Concepts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wonderwall by Oasis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought that the coming Chinese New Year has brought some inspiration to my current blog post! Well, to be specific it&#8217;s the little ditty which I know only as &#8220;Gong Xi, Gong Xi, Gong Xi Ni-ah! Gong Xi, Gong Xi, Gong Xi Ni!&#8221;
And the reason I&#8217;m writing about this is because it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piano Staircase</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[piano staircase]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a wonderful idea! Get people to take the staircase rather than riding on the escalator by making it fun &#8212; and what can be more fun than playing the piano!   

Now, if only we have this in Singapore!
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		<title>What Are Chord Families?</title>
		<link>http://www.mypianoriffs.com/764/what-are-chord-families/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 
By Nicole H. E. Lee
Chords are an essential element in playing any contemporary music style. Hence, a firm understanding and grasp of modern harmony is very important in order to be able to play a jazz or pop piece convincingly.
However, it seems like there are so many chords and chord types that it begins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free E-book Almost Ready!</title>
		<link>http://www.mypianoriffs.com/757/free-e-book-almost-ready/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mypianoriffs.com/757/free-e-book-almost-ready/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone,
After taking quite a long break from blogging, I hope to get back on track and get at least a post out before Chinese New Year &#8212; oh dear, another long holiday!

More important, I&#8217;m happy to announce that my free 30-page e-book Seven Ways to Become a Better Pop/Jazz Pianist is almost ready for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Major Scale&#8217;s Little Cousins&#8230;</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mypianoriffs.com/719/meet-the-major-scales-little-cousins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; the Minor scales!
They might be named &#8220;minor,&#8221; but there is nothing small or insignificant about the minor scales, which are closely related to the major scales. In fact, without the flavor of the three main minor scales and their diatonic chords, the music we know today will be quite bland and one dimensional. Jazz music [...]]]></description>
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