Piano Lessons

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lesson 1: Home Row, Left Hand Welcome to Lesson 1! First, a little orientation: at the top of every lesson you’ll see a diagram of the keyboard that highlights in yellow the keys you will be working on. In subsequent lessons the keys you have already learned will be coloured green. It is vital that [...]

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 [...]

Learning to play the piano can be exceptionally beneficial to young children. Many parents look to sports to develop their childs motor and concentration skills, but sport is not for all children. Learning to play the piano provides many of the same benefits as sports and more. The piano is both educational and your child [...]

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 [...]