Dave Limina – Pop/Rock Keyboard
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Learn to play authentic keyboard parts in a wide range of pop/rock styles, including rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, dance pop, classic rock, country, heartland/alt-country, and jam band.
Pop/Rock Keyboard
Learn to play authentic keyboard parts in a wide range of pop/rock styles, including rock ‘n’ roll, R&B, dance pop, classic rock, country, heartland/alt-country, and jam band. Pop/Rock Keyboard provides an in-depth, practical approach to playing pop/rock music in a band and for solo piano. The course explores how to play accompaniment parts and improvised solos, and how to read and interpret contemporary chord symbol lead sheet notation.
Each lesson features new techniques taught through video demonstrations of solo piano and full band performances, reading and listening examples, and practice opportunities using album quality play-along tracks. The course includes music examples and techniques from artists and bands such as The Beatles, Elton John, Alicia Keys, Demi Lovato, David Bowie, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnnie Johnson, Little Richard, Jamie Cullum, Fats Domino, Maroon 5, John Mayer, The Fray, Aretha Franklin, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Adele, Prince, Rascall Flatts, Bruce Hornsby, Steve Earle, The Grateful Dead, Phish, and many others.
The course begins with instruction on triads, arpeggiated keyboard parts, voice-leading, and comping patterns – all of which are bedrock principles of many signature pop/rock songs. From there, you’ll delve into dominant seventh chords, blues licks, and call and response techniques. You’ll explore the influence of gospel music and techniques specific to sub genres of pop/rock music, focus on how to find the key center for improvisation, and learn the associated phrasing and grooving techniques to advance your improvisational chops. The course ends with performance considerations, including how to combine different pop/rock techniques, how to deal with performance anxiety, and how to work out the best possible practice routine. At the end of each lesson, students will record themselves playing along with band tracks for instructor critique. The course is equally beneficial to beginning keyboard students, or students with classical experience or contemporary jazz style training. This course will fill in any gaps in students’ playing, and provide a strong foundation in pop/rock keyboard playing.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Construct various chord types used in pop/rock styles
- Voice lead chords through chord progressions
- Play rhythmic accompaniments that are appropriate for many pop/rock styles
- Play improvised solos on pop/rock tunes
- Use the improvisational (soloing) vocabulary used in pop/rock styles
- Employ quarter note, eighth note, broken triad, and arpeggiated accompaniment techniques
- Employ dominant seventh chord techniques and blues licks
- Play minor seventh chords, major seventh chords, and the pop styles that use them
- Play sophisticated add9 chords and fourths voicing commonly used in pop/rock styles
- Read and interpret lead sheets
- Play techniques borrowed from gospel styles, commonly used in pop/rock music
- Use funky pop and dance grooves and related keyboard sounds and techniques
- Play country and country/pop accompaniment and solos
Syllabus
Lesson 1 Quarter-Note Triads in Pop/Rock Music
Lesson 2 Eighth-Note Comping Patterns in Pop/Rock Music
Lesson 3 Arpeggiated Keyboard Parts in Pop/Rock Music
Lesson 4 The Dominant 7th Chord and Blues Licks in Pop/Rock Music
Lesson 5 New Chords and Styles for Pop/Rock Keyboard
Lesson 6 Gospel Influences in Pop/Rock Keyboard Playing
Lesson 7 Funky Pop/Rock Styles: Dance, R&B, and Groove
Lesson 8 Country Pop/Rock
Lesson 9 Pop/Rock Improvisation
Lesson 10 Pop/Rock Ballads
Lesson 11 Heartland Pop/Rock Keyboard and The Art of the Jam
Lesson 12 Pop/Rock Performances: Putting It All Together
Requirements
Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements
Completion of Music Theory 101, Berklee Keyboard Method, and Getting Inside Harmony 1, or equivalent knowledge and experience is required.
Required Textbook(s)
- None required
Recommended DVD(s)
- Accelerate Your Keyboard Playing by Dave Limina, Berklee Press/Hal Leonard
Students are required to record video for assignments. You can use your smartphone, digital camera, or webcam to do this. If you do not already have a preferred video software, you can use the built-in recorder tool within your assignment post. You can play the backing track through your speakers as you record and the microphone will pick up both the piano or keyboard (playing out loud through built-in speakers or amp) and the track as you play along.
Hardware Requirements
- Students may use a variety of keyboards for this course (acoustic piano, synthesizer, digital piano, MIDI keyboard controller, etc.)
Instructors
Author & Instructor
Dave Limina is an associate professor in the Piano department at Berklee College of Music, where he received the Most Valuable Contribution to the Performance Curriculum Award in 2001 for his work in developing the Hammond organ program. An experienced session keyboardist, composer, and arranger, Dave has performed with Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Lori McKenna, Duke Robillard, Gloria Estefan, Mark Murphy, Scott Hamilton, the first national touring company of the Broadway musical Rent, and many others. He received Boston Music Award nominations for his work with Courage Brothers, Ronnie Earl, and Mighty Sam McClain, and has played on several Grammy-nominated recordings. He played keyboards on Michelle Willson’s Wake Up Call, which won a Boston Music Award in 2001. Dave does extensive session work in Boston, New York, and LA. He is the author of Hammond Organ Complete (Berklee Press) and the instructional video/DVD Accelerate Your Keyboard Playing. His playing is featured on many TV and film soundtracks.
What’s Next?
When taken for credit, Pop/Rock Keyboard can be applied towards these associated programs:
Associated Certificate Programs
- General Music Studies Professional Certificate
- General Music Studies Advanced Professional Certificate
- Keyboard Styles Professional Certificate
Associated Degree Majors
- Bachelor’s Degree in Music Production
- Bachelor’s Degree in Music Business
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Music Production and Sound Design
- Bachelor’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Music Studies (Create Your Own Major)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Music Composition for Film, TV, and Games
- Bachelor’s Degree in Songwriting
- Bachelor’s Degree in Songwriting and Producing Music
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