Play Piano – How to play piano
“Hi Mr. Ron,
I have studied piano since I was 4 years old. My mother was my piano teacher. She taught me how to read sheet music and the needed fingerings to play scales. I enjoyed my lessons with her and practiced everyday!
I went to Music College and studied Chopin, Bach, Beethoven and many other famous classical music composers, as well as Hanon and Czerny for finger strength and agility.
How to Play Piano Using a Few Chords
How many chords do you need to create a piece of music? Would you believe that it doesn’t really matter and that whole pieces of music have been created using just one chord? For example, if you play a D minor 7 chord, you could use the bass note D to create a drone effect and anchor the whole improvisation. It could last for a few seconds or many minutes.
The important thing is were you in the moment when you created it? If you were, then it will be a good piece of music. If you weren’t it will be notes in the air without communication. What communicates is your feeling. It’s your feeling that gets across through the notes. The notes themselves are meaningless if you are not present behind them.
: The Piano Teacher: A Novel (9780670020485): Janice Y. K. Lee: Books
While reading “The Piano Teacher”, at a certain point I almost put it down, determining it wasn’t worth finishing. I’m glad I perservered because once the novel’s 1940s timeline reached the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, it became a much more absorbing and consistent read.
The story is a complex one that I won’t recount here, but suffice to say this is a novel about survival, specifically British Hong Kong residents during World War II’s Pacific Theater. Author Janice Lee deals in duality in several ways: The contrasts between the monied classes and the local, largely unskilled population and their interdependencies both before and during the war; the English and the Chinese citizens, all ostensibly British subjects but with vastly different expectations of themselves and one another; Chinese and expatriate culture; the choice to collaborate or to defy; the war and its aftermath, and so on.
How to Learn a Tune by Ear
- Why learn tunes by ear?
- How to learn tunes by ear
- Learning during a session
- Practice learning tunes by ear
- A note about learning by Kinesthetic Sense vs. Learning Aurally
- Key Signatures and Modes