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Basic Piano

Top 5 Ways To Develop Your Piano Rhythm

February 8, 2012

Learn the basic rhythms. As one of the top 5 ways to develop your piano rhythm, learning the basic beats found in any kind of music will help. The more rhythms that you listen to in fact, the easier they are to identify and emulate. We have for example, the standard four-beat rhythm that counts [...]

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Relative Pitch – Distinguishing the Framework of Music

February 6, 2012

The Sound of Chords Unlike perfect pitch, which is the sound of single notes, relative pitch is the sound of chords. A chord is a group of notes that when played together, create a new sound called a harmony. This harmony can be major, minor, or any one of the many derivatives and the reason [...]

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The Play Piano Roadmap – Your Journey From Beginner To Advanced

January 19, 2012

Whether you already play piano or want to learn, I’m glad you stumbled across this page. It means there’s one more person out there looking for a better way to add music to his or her life, or perhaps to improve on an already established skill set. Either way, welcome. The good new is, I’ve [...]

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Basic Piano Scales – Essential, But Easy!

December 26, 2011

The relationship between full-size compositions and basic piano scales is incredibly strong, for without the scale, we wouldn’t have the wonderful symphonies that we enjoy today. Knowing what this relationship is, there can be little question about how basic piano scales contribute to such masterpieces from the likes of Bach or Vivaldi. And being aware [...]

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Easy Ways Of Learning Music Key Signature

October 18, 2011

Learning music key signature is very important in your piano lessons because they add “tuning” to the music pieces you are playing. At first glance, you might say that learning music key signatures is hard to do but actually it’s not. Let me teach you some techniques on how to easily know them by heart. [...]

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How To Play The Piano – A Quickened Approach

June 25, 2011

Play the piano one key at a time? No way! There’s an old joke among seasoned pianists, and it goes something like this. Question: “How do you learn how to play the piano?” Answer: “One key at a time!” Although that certainly seems like a logical way to learn, it isn’t very practical. There are [...]

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