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Get “An Introduction to Cocktail Piano” today: www.billspianopages.com/cocktail Everyone loves cocktail piano — the lush, chilled-out sound that echoes from every piano bar in the world — so in this tutorial we're going to go through a bunch of drills and exercises that will help you take your cocktail playing to the next level. There are eleven cocktail piano exercises in total, in three categories. First are six broken chord exercises, great for finger control and mobility around the piano keyboard (essential for cocktail piano, which uses a TON of space on the keyboard); then come four chord jumping exercise to help with your finger placement, especially on tricky chords with lots of black notes (popular cocktail piano songs are often in "flat" keys with many black notes); finally there's an exercise that takes a common chord progression and moves between keys to help you develop a feel for how different keys and their chords work on the piano keyboard. If you’ve liked this and you want to find out more about cocktail piano, I've made lots of other tutorials on the subject. Here’s a playlist of my other cocktail piano tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpOuhygfD7QlnF-gxs4wKb2F8V4nPdZYd ....and don't forget to check out “An Introduction to Cocktail Piano”, because if you've liked this tutorial, you'll love it — find out more here! https://www.billspianopages.com/cocktail You might also like my Jazz Piano For Beginners series of YouTube tutorials, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpOuhygfD7QmN-lQYtSAULCvdomKraZ1S MY OTHER BOOKS Seven Studies in Pop Piano: https://www.billspianopages.com/seven-studies An Introduction To Cocktail Piano: https://www.billspianopages.com/cocktail Book bundle deal: https://www.billspianopages.com/bundle All six of my Piano Packs for £16.95: https://billspianopages.com/pianopacks My Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/billhilton SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Twitter: https://twitter.com/billhilton Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser 00:00 Why cocktail piano is so useful 02:56 Basic C major broken chord exercise 04:26 Black note broken chord exercise 05:25 Focussing on evenness and control - critical for cocktail piano 06:16 Basic four-note broken chord exercise (Ab) 06:40 Advanced four-note broken chord exercise (Abmaj7) 07:20 Broken chords on diatonic sevenths over two octaves (Eb major and C major) 08:56 Basic arpeggio runs using different chord shapes 09:46 Fast cocktail-style arpeggio runs 10:52 Basic chord jumps, white note chords 11:54 Basic chord jumps, awkward chords 12:14 Jumps in inversions, white note chords 12:46 Jumps in inversions, awkward chords 13:07 Key changing exercise using simple chord progression 14:58 How to work out key transpositions 16:51 Wrap-up and further info