Piano Lessons

I am an adult who used fake books extensively as a teenager when I played an accordion in a small combo. Now, (much, much later), I am trying to learn how to play an electronic keyboard competently – with both hands, and Blake Neely’s book has become a very valuable addition to my library. I [...]

First, I did enjoy his music selection. Just right for an older person like me. This is only for beginners who just want to play tunes on the piano and don’t really care what it sounds like. Everything is easily written in the key of C with easy chords. Couldn’t be simpler. However, if you [...]

One of the most interesting and fascinating instruments to play, is the organ. There are many variations of this instrument, from the standard electronic, as seen in the picture, to the more refined Church Organ, Orchestral Organ or the Theatre Pipe Organ as they are called. They can have as few as one keyboard (manuals) [...]

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 [...]

Playing the organ is not easy; just remember that both hands, both feet, your memory and your reflexes all have to be synchronised and able to simultaneously do their thing in perfect time, especially if you play for dancing or “strict-tempoâ€. It is not essential to learn to read music, although it helps if cannot [...]

There are a number of differences between an organ and piano, besides the obvious form and function issue. Both a piano and an organ use keyboards as their primary means of performance, but the mechanics behind those keyboards are completely different. A piano is generally considered a member of the percussion musical family, while an [...]

Learn to Play Organ Are you someone trying to learn to play those toe-tapping, foot-stomping, hand-clapping, finger-snapping praise songs on the organ? If so, keep reading this page because I’ve found something that will definitely help you! The folks over at HearandPlay.com just sent me an e-mail telling me about their brand new organ DVD [...]

Guitar Tab: Learn To Play Yankee Doodle With Guitar Tab Guitar Tab: Learn To Play Yankee Doodle With Guitar Tab Peter Edvinsson You can learn to play guitar melodies, even if you do not know Sheet Music notation. We instead use easy to learn guitar tab or guitar tablature. Let’s learn Yankee Doodle! Yankee Doodle [...]

For starters, pianos and organs are not the same thing. Just because Sister Mary Brown tickles the ivories doesn’t mean she’ll be immediately capable of playing the organ if she is called to do so by her church leader. Maybe, with oodles of practice, she’ll muscle through. But, like most piano players asked to become [...]

How I did it: When I first started playing the B3 I was overwhelmed. Really overwhelmed. Like how you are the first time someone shows a complicated bit of software that you’ve always assumed was beyond you. And much like software (or chess or sudoku or a language foreign to you) you can be psyched [...]