Hi Bernie,
Pianote

https://www.pianote.com/

You don’t have to join right away, they have a heap of free utube clips, check some of those out first, and see if you think you’d enjoy it.

Basically the course consists of foundations, which is theory, helping with playing skills etc
Section on chords and scales.
Student focus, which has a boot camp, tips and tricks ( a lot of these are the free utube clips)

A song section, where they teach you to play songs, from lead sheets and some have the full notation. With the one’s from lead sheets they teach how to do the fills and other bits to make your song sound good. Ie really basic or they show you how to embellish..

The course is broken into different sections.

Check utube first though and some of the clips. Just Putin pianote

P.s. I haven’t bothered with the books , I do mine from iPad ,

I especially appreciate this sort of discussion. I’m not as old as old as Bernie, only 78, and my musical education was pretty much limited to about 18 months in the early 50’s accordion mills. I played in a band in the 50’s, after the big band era, the accordion player was initially relegated to mashing chords to emulate the big band background. So, although I had been playing out about 3X/week of late, I am a neophyte and still learning.
Not too long ago, I believe it was John C, (bruno123), suggested to someone to just learn and practice the D,G,C,F and maybe Bb scales and learn the relative II-V-I progressions and that has been my current undertaking. It seemed to be just enough for me to bite and chew comfortably. Again, thanks and keep those little bites coming …
Ciao,
Jerry

Hi,
actually one of the packs in my course is “ 500 Songs in 5 Days”,

I have never known what to play as far as accompaniment goes, it’s actually quite simple to play a basic accompaniment.

Certainly didn’t learn 500 songs in 5 days ( haha) but the idea is the songs are based on the 1,IV, V, VI ,chords not in that order and the 500 songs that contain the chords.

No reading involved, ( never played without written notes in my life)

Then it teaches you about inversions and how to add embellishments, and for those of us who don’t sing ( me) it teaches how to add melody ( by ear) .

Each day , a new lesson to help learn some of those 500 songs.

Let it Be is one of them. Possibly so is Imagine, haven’t looked thru them all yet.

My hands are not what they used to be. Between Parkinson disease, age, and not playing out I have lost some.

1-I am playing some piano, not much.
2-Put my iPad away, I am using a laptop mirrored to a 23” monitor.
3-Copied all my old Polkas, fast up-beat, and favorite songs into a folder.
4-My daily routine is playing these songs, most in original keys, each day. The tempo on each song is lowered about 20% I will rase the tempo when I get comfortable. Lock-down is not that bad.
It is amazing how my LH moves to each chord without looking at the music.

Jerry, trying to explain a subject sometimes gets lost in the written explanation. So, I am going to record myself singing, talking and playing my explanation; it will be much easier to understand.

John C.

I'm looking forward to that John! You are exactly right about trying to explain what we're doing.

That may be so,Don,but you did a great job trying to make me see how you "comp" about a year ago. I do agree that a demonstration is better for the average wannabe.

Rikki

Thank you for the link and great description of your coarse. I will look into it.

You’re welcome Bernie ,

Here’s a link to one of her quick tutorials, if you subscribe it should take you to the rest of the utube tutorials, it will give you a better idea as to whether it’s worth signing up for the course.

The free quick tips on utube might be all you need.

https://youtu.be/LSE9mXf6NxE

This one is a super simple piano accompaniment ( even easier than my 500 songs course. Haha)
https://youtu.be/eCsKg8i1Ru8