Elijah Fox

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Piano for Producers and Guitarists

Get acquainted with the wonderful world of piano playing.

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WHo it's for

All levels

This class is for anyone who's looking to start playing piano right away – no prior music experience needed.

Time

3 weeks

Elijah will guide you through 3 weeks of step-by-step instruction with interactive TAB and assignments.

Outcome

Play 🎹 like a producer

This class will get you playing piano right away by leveling up your production skills and providing creative songwriting inspiration.

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Once you've mastered this class, keep progressing with more Challenges and guided learning pathways.

What you'll learn

Join Elijah as he walks you through the fundamentals of piano playing with a focus on production and songwriting.

Learn piano and sound design skills for the studio
Improve your songwriting with practical theory
Expand your chordal vocabulary

Curriculum

Stay focused with this step-by-step learning program designed by our expert team of music educators.

3-week Plan

Part I. Introduction to the Piano

Take your first steps into piano playing.

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In this first section, we'll cover the most important skills every piano and keyboard player should know.

The skills you'll develop in this section are simple, but they'll serve as the foundation that you'll build your piano-playing house on. You'll start with basic techniques and learn the most important concepts for piano – including note names, major scales, and piano range.

Part II. How to Approach Chords

Next, we'll dive into everything related to chords.

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This section is the real meat and potatoes of the class. This is where you'll learn how to build and invert chords, play arpeggios, and accompany yourself as a singer.

There are also lessons on advanced topics like reharmonization, transposition, and neo-soul voicings for those who are up to the challenge. Elijah wraps up this section with five easy-to-play voicings if you’re looking to quickly build out your harmonic vocabulary.

Part III. Producing with a keyboard

Now, we'll hit the studio and learn production!

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In Part III, Elijah explores how we can craft compelling basslines, melodies, chords, and other textures to create better compositions. You’ll also learn how to make live loops in Ableton using key mapping. This will help you quickly flesh out ideas, which is an incredibly important skill as a producer/songwriter.

Part IV. Performances

Cap off the class by putting your skills to the test!

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We have a unique set of original compositions by Elijah. You'll get four tracks with one element removed – it's up to you to contribute your own part to each song, just like you would in a production setting.

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Frequently asked questions

Are you a guitar, bass or piano player who feels like you haven’t made progress in a few months… years… or even decades?
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You’re probably stuck in what’s called the ‘intermediate plateau’. This is very common and can be very frustrating.

What’s the cause? Well, it’s pretty easy to learn the basics on any instrument. Learn a few chords and you can play hundreds of other songs. Learn a couple of scales and you can play some lead.

But what then? Triads? Modes? Arpeggios? The phrygian scale?!

Without a clear plan and learning system you fall back to playing the same things over and over again. Or you bounce around free lessons online but nothing seems to stick. It’s a recipe for a lot of practice without much progress.

That’s where Pickup Music can help. We specialize in taking players stuck in a rut and turning them into advanced musicians.

We do this through Learning Pathways that take you on a step-by-step journey towards mastery. We give you a highly structured system that shows you exactly what to work on each week to make serious progress.

These Learning Pathways take the guesswork out of your practice routine. You are guided through a proven grade-by-grade system with daily lessons, play-along practice exercises and interactive workouts.

But it’s not all about theory. We apply everything you learn to real music. That’s why every grade of our Learning Pathways build up to performing a song with a live backing band. This simulates what it’s like to play a real gig, with real musicians. It’s the absolute best way to learn.

You can also get 1-on-1 video feedback on your playing from our expert coaches and can attend weekly live lessons. This personal feedback makes Pickup Music the closest thing to taking in-person lessons, but at a fraction of the cost.

So does this method actually work? Will you see results in your playing?

The most common thing we hear from new members is that they’ve made more progress with Pickup Music in a few months than in years of teaching themselves. As one member recently told us, “I'm finally seeing progress for the first time in many years”.

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