Piano Lessons

You might be a first timer taking up a new interest in music… or maybe this is your second go at learning to play the piano. Like most music students, you dream that you’ll soon be playing your own favorite songs on the piano. Perhaps you look forward to the fun of playing the piano [...]

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How To Become Better At Piano Sight Reading Becoming an efficient piano or music sight reader takes a lot of practice. There are a few rules that will help speed up and help improve your sight reading abilities. Do you know that music sight reading skills and accompaniments skills are the two most important skills [...]

Want To Know How To Read Piano Notes? It’s not as hard as it looks. Learning how to read piano notes is about learning a pattern – as many things are in music. First, if you’re not sure about which notes are which on the piano keyboard, read piano key notes. Notes are named after [...]

Last Chapter: Reading Rhythms – Exercises Next Chapter: Accents and Markings – How to Make Sense of “^” and “.” How To Read Sheet Music… A Free Course All you ever wanted to know about sheet music and how to read it. Chapter Three : Dotted Notes – Reading Complicated Syncopation Once you’ve got a [...]

Music Terms / Definitions: Staff: A staff of music is made up of five horizontal lines and four spaces. Each line and space represents a key on the piano. Notes and rests are then placed on the staff. Clef: A clef is a symbol at the beginning of a staff of music which makes it [...]

Notes & Clefs: The table below displays the different types of notes and clefs. All definitions are located at the end of the page. Treble Clef: When reading sheet music, you will notice that there is a treble clef at the top left hand corner of your music book. The notes along side the treble [...]

Music Terms / Definitions for this page: Rest: A rest is a symbol that corresponds to a note value. When reading a rest in sheet music no note is played for the duration of the rest. Beat: A beat is the name for a unit of music. Musicians learn to count beats, and play notes [...]

“Let’s talk about how to read sheet music notes. Let’s assume you’ve already familiarized yourself with the fact that down here you have a C, and then here you have a C, assuming that we’re in the treble clef, and we haven’t adjusted our, our bars up or down in any way. The things you’re [...]

How to Learn Piano Notes Have you heard of the song Auld Lang Syne? If you know it, then it’s easy and fast to learn to play it on the piano. This song is a great way to learn the piano notes, which is one of the first steps in learning to play the piano. [...]