Piano Lessons

Accordion Jokes HOW TO PLAY THE PIANO ACCORDION A Primer for Beginners Posted by John Ferree 1997 Get an accordion. The cheaper the better because they all sound the same. Do not tell anyone what you have done – it will only cause them to worry. They will find out soon enough. Take the accordion [...]

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 [...]

Your teacher has said again, ‘you have to do more practise’. Well, you already play all your scales, arpeggios and assigned pieces once through every day, what more could she possibly want? How ‘bout five times through each day?! Yep. That might satisfy your teacher. Here’s how to do it so that you don’t lose [...]

For this review, we bought and examined books from the Primer Level (Theory Book, Technique and Artistry Book, Performance Book, Lesson Book), Level One (Theory Book, Technique and Artistry Book, Performance Book, and Lesson Book) and Level 2A (Lesson Book). The Faber and Faber books are cross-referenced to each other along the outer edge of [...]

Music for the Piano for the Older Beginner, Book One by Robert Pace The Pace Music for the Piano for the Older Beginner Book One is a pedagogically sound aid for teaching the older beginner. It eschews the cute graphics that intrigue children, but put off older beginners. Instead, the material is presented in a [...]

The Computer as Instrument Home computers these days usually have a music instrument interface built right into their sound cards, as well as the basic software to drive the interface. Most of us can simply add a MIDI compatible keyboard for as little as $150 and be ready to learn to play a keyboard (i.e., [...]

Learn Piano installed without incident on our Pentium 90 test system running Windows 3.11. Its minimal hardware requirements mean that it will run on almost any reasonably up-to-date IBM PC compatible. We worked through the entire set of five CD-ROM’s of lessons for this review and encountered no problems with the operation of the program [...]

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 [...]

Children’s Methods Alfred Method For Children The Alfred method uses a lot of colored pictures and graphics to help with the teaching process. The newest updates in the Alfred Method for children include use of software, compact discs, and /or cassettes. This method utilizes the concept of position playing, which has a disadvantage that students [...]

You’ll need a PC running Windows 3.1 or 95 and at least a double-speed CD ROM drive to run the program. It has a very helpful Media Check option to help you troubleshoot any sound setup or MIDI keyboard problems. This is a particularly thoughtful touch, since getting the sound and MIDI setup to work [...]