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Piano Music Books – A Guide To Selecting The Right Ones

March 5, 2012

There are probably hundreds of thousands of piano music books available and this number is enough to overwhelm anyone! Fortunately, most of them are organized in various categories to make their selections fairly easy. The following describes some of those categories while disregarding for a moment the cost, language, or locality of where they may [...]

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Top Five Ways To Play Piano By Ear

February 19, 2012

Learn scales and try to pick them out in the music you hear. One of the top five ways to play piano by ear is by learning (at the very least) what scales are and what they sound like. Scales are a series of octave-specific notes that are played in a particular pattern or order. [...]

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The Many Benefits of Taking Piano Lessons Online

February 11, 2012

If you’ve ever wanted to play the piano but think that you don’t have time now that you are a working adult, think again! Piano lessons online make it easy to pick up your old hobby or learn a new one. When most of us think about taking piano lessons, we think about having a [...]

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Blues Piano Lessons

February 1, 2012

Could you use a crash-course in the blues? These blues piano lessons will get you headed in the right direction. We’ll begin with blues chords, string together a common blues progression, and combine it with a complementing bass line. Excited? Can’t wait to jam? Let’s get started with your blues piano lessons! Click Here And [...]

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Piano Jazz Lessons – Learning Through Its History and Its Music

January 24, 2012

Jazz Is The Answer To Story-Telling Questions Piano jazz lessons through studying notation and chords alone is not an easy feat because its very nature requires us establish how jazz is a reaction to meaningful explorations. This gives us sufficient reason to investigate its development from the late 18th and 19th centuries on through to [...]

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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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Learn Big, Rich Jazz Chords On Piano

September 20, 2011

Jazz chords can sometimes be confusing at first glance. In this article, I am going to explain how jazz players usually interpret chords and pick tensions to create lush chords. Bear in mind, every musician has their own “tricks” that they use to form their jazz chords. However, there are some basic harmonic concepts that [...]

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Taking Advantage Of A Free Gospel Piano Lesson

June 23, 2011

Skills Improve With Practice If there’s one thing that most musicians can agree on, it’s that their music gets better with practice. And so it is with gospel piano music. With a free Gospel piano lesson, you won’t only play Gospel better, but you will communicate with your audience better. All evidence for success seemingly [...]

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