Piano Lessons

The Blues Scale for Piano What notes and what fingering to use in the blues scale, it can be a bit confusing sometimes, so lets get started and playing one of the most fun scales there is. There are many variations of this scale but the one that Im going to be talking about here [...]

The C Major Scale The C Major Scale Page 1 The C Major Scale Page 2 This is Lesson #5. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to play the C major scale. What exactly is a scale? All music follows one series of intervals defined by their key signatures. Each scale has a specific key [...]

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I’ve received a number of questions related to blues piano and after multiple requests for basic information I’ve decided to create this page. Even though this site was primarily created for harmonica, a quick look at piano blues seems appropriate. Beginning Piano Player FAQ If you can already play the piano and want to learn [...]

The Whole Tone Scale The Whole tone scale is what you will need if you want to create a dreamy watery type sound, you know those scenes in movies where the person goes from reality to a dream, and you hear that sound; usually it’s this scale played over a few octaves from the bottom [...]

A Minor Harmonic Piano Scale Learn How To Play The A Minor Harmonic Scale On Piano! Let’s take a look at the A Minor harmonic scale now. The notes that make up the scale are A, B, C, D, E, F, G#, and back to A. To finger this scale with your right hand, start [...]

2007-05-29: General MIDI files (.mid files) are not the most popular way to distribute music on the web, and there are good reasons for that. General MIDI offers a limited range of instrument sounds, there are no vocals, and the end result almost always sounds… well, a bit like a toy piano. But good General [...]

Keyboard & MIDI Instruction R emember that keyboard that sounded so good in the store – how you couldn’t wait to start making music as soon as you got home? You purchased the keyboard and just as soon as you arrived home you plugged it in. You read the instruction manual and got as far [...]

Beginner Blues Piano Learning to play blues on the piano opens the door for other variations of piano music such as jazz, rock and country. The basic components of learning blues piano music are scale progressions, chord progressions and other chords. Once these have been mastered, it is easy to move on to other types [...]

12 Bar Blues Piano Chord Progression In this lesson we will be exploring blues piano or more specifically the 12 bar blues progression for piano. We will be working in 4/4 time which means that each “bar” or “measure” will have 4 beats. This gives the 12 bar blues progression a total of 48 beats [...]