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POP PIANO VIDEOS:
Style: Chinese Oldies (29 sec)
Free solo improvisation using pentatonic scales
Style: Chinese Ballad (41 sec)
Very typical Chinese ballad style, (C, G/B, Am, C/G, F, C/E, Dm, G)
Style: Pop Ballad (1 min 21 sec)
Typical Korean Ballad improvisation style
Style: Swing/Jazz (41 sec)
Jazz Improvisation over simple 4-bar progression
Style: Swing/Jazz (1 min)
Jazz Improvisation over simple 4-bar progression
Style: Jazz/Swing (35 sec)
Free solo improvisation
Style: New Age (1 min 11 sec)
New Age waterfall-like playing in Em
Style: Rock Piano (50 sec)
Rock groove with common bass note and motif lines on right hand
Style: Hymn/Pop (2 min 21 sec)
Song: "What a friend we have in Jesus" in slow, soothing ballad style
Style: English Ballad (1 min 5 sec)
Interesting improvisation using chord substitutions
Style: March (29 sec)
A fanfare improvisation!
Style: Hymn/Pop (48 sec)
Song: "
You Raise Me Up
"
in slow, soothing ballad style
Style: Pop/Rock Ballad (29 sec)
Free solo improvisation
Style: Rock & Roll (35 sec)
Rock & Roll using major blues scale
Style: Hymn/Pop (44 sec)
Song:
"
Amazing Grace
"
reharmonized
Style: Jazz Ballad (2 min 10 sec)
Song:
"
Over the Rainbow
"
with interesting chord
reharmonisation
Style: Shuffle/Hymn (1 min 41 sec)
Modern style of
"What a friend we have in Jesus
"
Style: Shuffle/Jazz (20 sec)
Interesting bass line with shuffle rhythm
Style: Funk/Jazz (51 sec)
Blues, Jazz, Funk, Fusion!
Style: Jazz Ballad (53 sec)
Soothing lounge jazz
Style: Shuffle/Hymn (1 min 32 sec)
Modern style of "Joyful Joyful"
Style: Swing/Blues (29 sec)
Jazz/Blues improvisation over simple 4-bar progression
Style: Swing/Jazz (38 sec)
Simply refuses to resolve?!
Style: Bossa Nova/Jazz Ballad (28 sec)
Basic demonstration of comping using the Bossa Nova style
Style: Swing/Jazz (1 min 1 sec)
Solo improvisation over "Fly Me to the Moon" chord progression
Style: Swing (1 min 16 sec)
Free improvisation over progression with key modulation
Style: Jazz/Ragtime (40 sec)
Free jazz improvisation over "Satin Doll"
Style: Chinese Pop (1 min 34 sec)
Song: "Yue Ding" in slow, soothing ballad style
Style: English Pop (46 sec)
Song: "Tennessee Waltz" with varying left hand patterns
Style: Chinese Ballad (1 min 1 sec)
Song: Improvisation over Chinese-style chord progression