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In this video from Berklee Online’s Gospel Music for Keyboard course, instructor Dennis Montgomery shows you how to apply the piano techniques of Arizona Drane, who came to prominence in the 1920s. Among Arizona Drane’s most notable contributions were changing between minor and diminished chords. Montgomery—who co-authored this course with Mark Copeland—demonstrates this signature style of Arizona Drane by playing the song “I’m Going Home on the Morning Train” as it is played in the original recording as well as what it might sound like as contemporary music, to show how Drane would have likely added a measure of interlude before the verse, something that differs from modern-day techniques.
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ABOUT DENNIS MONTGOMERY:
By the time Dennis Montgomery III was nine, he was playing B3 organ in Baptist churches in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. He began his time at Berklee as a student in 1983, and is currently a full professor as well as the director of Berklee’s Reverence Gospel Choir, which has included students from Japan, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, and a number of European and Scandinavian nations among its members. Having worked with the choir for more than three decades, Montgomery has directed such students as Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, and Susan Tedeschi.
ABOUT MARK COPELAND:
Mark Copeland is a pianist, organist, keyboardist, music producer, composer, arranger, songwriter, and educator. Versatile in all forms of contemporary music, he is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he is currently a professor in the Ensemble department. Mark has played for and shared the stage with numerous artists, such as Yolanda Adams, Brian McKnight, Jeffrey Osborne, Kenny Lattimore, Michelle Brooks-Thompson, Walter Beasley, Gerald Albright, Kirk Whalum, and Elan Trotman, and more.
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Mark Copeland | Dennis Montgomery | Gospel Music for Keyboard | Berklee Online | Arizona Drane | Piano Techniques | Diminished Chords | Minor Chords | I am Going Home on the Morning Train | Yolanda Adams | Brian McKnight | Jeffrey Osborne | Kenny Lattimore | Michelle Brooks-Thompson | Walter Beasley | Gerald Albright | Kirk Whalum | Elan Trotman | Paula Cole | Lalah Hathaway | Susan Tedeschi | Interlude | Verse | Modern Techniques | Berklee’s Reverence Gospel Choir