Pop Piano
Our Contemporary Piano Programme trains you to play in a huge variety of modern styles ranging from Pop ballads, Retro hits, Rock & Roll, Boogie, Top 40s, MORs, R&B, Country, New Orleans, Funk, Soul, Disney hits, Broadway Musicals and so on. Whether its classic Elvis, Beatles, Abba, Barry Manilow, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Carrie Underwood, we got it all covered. Our Contemporary Piano Programme starts from total beginners, all the way to Advanced levels.

Listen to some samples of how we play contemporary piano below:

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‘Fields of Gold’ sample. This is a reharmonised version with chord substitutions on this lovely poetic ballad.

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‘She’ sample. This is done in a rubato-form, Modern Ballad Style that lends itself well to some rich jazz chord texturing.

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‘Call Me by Name’ sample. This is done with some open-voicing approaches, classic phrasings and improvised right hand lines.

Asian Pop Piano
Asian Pop is heavily influenced by Chinese, Japanese and Korean Pop music. Each region brings along with it its own unique musical characteristics and flavourings. Whether you want to play Jay Chou, Amei, Lee Hom or you are a fan of Kpop music such as Shinee, Super Junior, we will teach you how to master these genre confidently on the piano.

Asian Pop goes back to the 1950s where classic Chinese oldies music was first heard and became popular (Teresa Teng, Lin Dai). Fast forward till today we have a proliferation of different styles coming from different regions, one of the most popular coming from S.Korea.

We recommend that beginners start off with our Contemporary Piano Programme before embarking on the Asian Pop Piano module.

Listen to how Asian Pop Piano can be played below.

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‘Chinese Pop’ sample.Here, you will hear improvised piano solo samples of music by Jay Chou, Wang Lee Hom and Amei.

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‘Bogoshipda’ sample. This piano ballad is from a popular Korean TV drama called ‘Stairway to Heaven’.

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‘I Believe’sample. Korean ballads are known for their unique jazz inflected harmonies, as you can hear from this excerpt.

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‘Marry U’ sample. This is a popular number by ‘Super Junior’, an extremely popular boyband from Korea. Again, you will hear very interesting jazz harmonies fused into a popular song done in a light, R&B piano style.