Piano Lessons

500 Pages Of Pure Piano Know-How! A Complete Method In Contemporary Piano Styles The founder of the Harrison School of Music in Los Angeles, Mark Harrison, has created one of truly great treatises and methods on the subject of popular piano playing in todays styles. It is a ground-up method that reviews the basic building [...]

Have you ever wanted to “tickle the ivories?” Learning the basics of piano playing is not as difficult as you might think. Find out how you can learn the names of then notes and also learn where they are located on a piano keyboard by reading this article. A piano keyboard is made-up of a [...]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a virtual keyboard showing the absolute frequencies in hertz (cycles per second), of the notes on a modern piano (typically containing 88 keys) in twelve-tone equal temperament, with the 49th key, the fifth A (called A4), tuned to 440 Hz (referred to as A440). Each successive pitch is [...]

What to call the keys, or -Which C is that one over there? by Kendall Ross Bean Key numbering or naming systems There are several places where references are made to c(1), C(2), etc. The (1) would normally be written as a superscript (slightly above the height of the C) but, because some browsers will [...]

A tourist in New York City asked a local resident “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?†The passerby answered, “practice, practice, practiceâ€. Have you ever watched someone playing the piano with incredible skill and wondered how they do it? The answer is simple – P R A C T I C E. Learning to [...]

A tourist in New York City asked a local resident How do you get to Carnegie Hall? The passerby answered, practice, practice, practice. Have you ever watched someone playing the piano with incredible skill and wondered how they do it? The answer is simple P R A C T I C E. Learning to play [...]

This book is very helpful. Mark Harrison takes you through several styles of piano playing. In each style he starts with a sample song. It starts simply and then builds in complexity. Then he adds variations. This book fills a void in the market for people who need to know how to approach different styles [...]

Lemas Mitchell Says: June 10, 2010 at 9:05 pm Review by Lemas Mitchell for The Pop Piano Book Rating: This could be a very good technique book as well for people who want to learn popular piano if it is read and used carefully.He has an abundance of technical exercises in rhythm patterns, which is [...]

This book is the single greatest influence on my playing. I’ve worked through a dozen piano theory books, and they usually focus on one aspect of playing. For example, I own books on quartal jazz voicings, 100 blues riffs, intros/turnarounds, reading from a fakebook, the jazz piano book, tons of runs, etc. Those books are [...]

This could be a very good technique book as well for people who want to learn popular piano if it is read and used carefully. He has an abundance of technical exercises in rhythm patterns, which is something that cannot be gained from Hanon, the king of technical exercise books. Many teachers are not very [...]