Learn Beautiful RUNS, FILLS, INTROS, ENDINGS and TURN-AROUNDS!

Fun and Exciting Piano Video Lessons

Detailed, step-by-step Video Instructions with clear captions

Excellent Piano Tips for playing Jazz Standards

Numerous Piano Techniques to get a Cocktail Piano Sound

Many other Techniques to Play Piano from Fake Book and Lead Sheets

Add Flourish and Style to your playing

Create your own wonderful Piano Arrangements and sound like a real Pro!

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All videos are intended for intermediate level piano players


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THREE Fun-Filled Instructional Piano Video Lessons
TEN different great piano techniques in each video

Piano Video Tutorial ONE
Stranger in Paradise - Runs and Fills Instructional Video

10 Run and Fills piano techniques are demonstrated using "Stranger in Paradise", also known as "Polovetsian Dance".

  1. Echo Run
  2. Left-hand Ballad Style
  3. Cross Hands
  4. Rolling Tremolos
  5. Locked-hands Block Chords
  1. Major 7th Chords & Runs
  2. Waterfall Runs
  3. Half-step Progressions
  4. Chromatic Runs
  5. 6/9 Chords & Runs

In the video at right, I played the song using all 10 techniques, at regular tempo.
In the actual instructional video, all 10 techniques are demonstrated slowly, step-by-step, with clear captions.




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...Elssa's videos are chock full of professional sounding techniques...
Being a retired piano/organ teacher I really appreciate the thought she has put into her videos in order to make it easy for everyone to learn these techniques and apply them to all songs not just the ones she uses in the videos...
Thanks also for the free videos that you have posted in your members forum.
Alene T., Retired Piano Teacher, Salem, OR, USA

Piano Video Tutorial TWO
Elssa's Piano Stylings and Techniques Video

In this tutorial, segments of the songs, Misty and Moon River, are used to demonstrate 10 piano techniques that are taught.

  1. Major 7th & Major 9th Runs & Fills
  2. Jazzy Chords/Progressions
  3. Whole Tone Scales/Runs
  4. Straddles
  5. Swing-Stride/Rolling 10ths
  1. Cross-Hands Technique
  2. The Blues
  3. Waterfall Run
  4. Turn-Arounds
  5. Echo Runs & Fills

The videos below show me playing Misty and Moon River at regular tempo. The 10 techniques are sprinkled throughout the songs. In the actual instructional video, all techniques are demonstrated slowly, step-by-step, with clear captions.




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Testimonials
I've seen this video and I love it!!! I'm sure many budding pianists are benefitting from this. Way to go!
You are doing wonderful things with your instructional videos. Keep going strong.
Robin Meloy Goldsby
Pianist; Composer; Author of "Piano Girl: A Memoir"




Elssa's teaching method is excellent... She demonstrates the techniques to us... very, very clearly; slowly to start with so you really are able to follow it, and then shows the techniques used up to speed, and then incorporated into a song...
I have bought many other teaching courses and DVD's - but in my opinion these are the best and definitely my favourites.
Carole A. Rogers, UK

Piano Video Tutorial THREE
Elssa's Holiday Songs Video

Learn how to create exciting and beautiful piano arrangements of your favorite Christmas music!

This over half-hour video demonstrates in great detail many new, fun and exciting piano techniques, which can be applied to your favorite standards, as well as holiday songs.

Multiple techniques are taught in the context of different Christmas and holiday songs. Some of the techniques include:
  • Insertion Chords
  • Jazzy Chord Progression with Descending Bass
  • Alberti Bass with multiple Variations
  • Half-Step Chord Progression
  • Right Hand Handshape Technique
  • Descending Bass
  • Diminished and b9 Chords
  • Triplet Ballad Technique
  • Descending Broken Chord Run
  • and more!

In the following video, I played "Carol of the Bells" using some of the above techniques.


Songs and Carols used in the Holiday Instructional Video:
  • Winter Wonderland
  • The Christmas Song
  • Let It Snow
  • O Holy Night
  • The Carol of the Bells
  • The Christmas Waltz
Additional Bonus Material:
  • Bonus Demo - Chimes/Bells Technique
  • PDF Lead Sheet - O Holy Night
  • PDF Lead Sheet - Carol of the Bells

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...a great piano player and musician at heart... she gives away her secrets and piano tips of how you can play excellent cocktail style of runs and fills. There are lots of gems in her videos...
I highly recommend this course to all piano players.
Rosa Suen, Hong Kong
Piano Teacher, Learn Piano With Rosa

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The videos are captioned well and succinctly...
She makes it look and sound easy. It's both instructional and inspirational...
I can't recommend her videos highly enough...At the price that she offers them, it's a STEAL!
Rosanna S., San Francisco, USA

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About Elssa

Diane Mathison, nickname Elssa, has been playing piano and organ for over 35 years and has developed a unique style of playing and teaching that focuses on the popular cocktail piano style that everyone loves. She majored in music in college and has studied with top classical and jazz teachers for many years. She taught groups and private lessons, as well as in piano and organ stores.

Based on her experiences, she has put together innovative videos which help people learn to express their passion for music in real ways by learning real techniques that can be used in a free style to create their own amazing musical arrangements. With her videos, she shares in great detail all the beautiful and exciting runs and fills, chord progressions, left-hand accompaniment techniques, and much more which she uses in her performances and recordings.

at the piano keyboard

She welcomes the opportunity to share all this with those who are tired of just sight reading and playing the usual uninspiring arrangements from books and who wish to develop their own wonderful style, gain a fuller and richer understanding of harmony and all aspects of music in the process.

Elssa lives in upstate New York with her cat Gwen, who occasionally likes to add a couple of finishing notes to Elssa's recordings.

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