Piano Lessons

The Basics of Reading Music by Kevin Meixner back Introduction To better understand how to read music, maybe it is best to first ask ourselves: What is music exactly? Well, according to the 1976 edition (okay so I need to update my book collection!) of Funk & Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary the definition is: mu.sic [...]

The January 2009 artist/educator: Mr. Scott Houston, Educator, Writer and Performer, Emmy Award Winning Host of The Piano Guy on Public Television, Indianapolis, IN USA Scott Houston is an experienced music professional with more than 20 years in the business. A trained percussionist, Houston studied jazz at the Indiana University School of Music. Houston then [...]

The College Piano Handbook by Byron Goh Sutherland Edited by David J. Kennison The College Piano Handbook is a good starting point for information about bachelor-level piano and music programs, scholarships, and auditions at selected state universities in the United States. The spiral-bound format allows the book to lay flat for easy reference and use. [...]

The Beginners Guide To Playing The Guitar – New to guitar? Then here is a great place to start learning how to play guitar. From easy guitar chords, to easy guitar songs. Tuning the guitar Basic Guitar Tuning – In this beginner guitar lesson you will learn the most basic guitar tuning method, tune with [...]

The author did a great job of keeping this book simple and explaining things very well. Topics covered: Left Hand Bass Lines including Jerry Lee, Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Chuck Berry styles. Right Hand – Eighths, Glissando, Crushed Notes (I think this is also called slip notes), Rolls, Note Clusters, and Comping. Soloing – [...]

Play Notes All Over The Piano Keyboard! The Piano Has 88 Keys — why Not Learn To Use Them All? New pianists learn notes first. An understanding of musical notes and their values is the foundation for learning any instrument. That includes the piano. The values of the notes are easy to remember because their [...]

Partial transcript below: This is the course introduction to chapter three taken from Blues for Piano and Keyboard Gospel, Rock and roll, Country or Jazz: what do they have in common? Each one of these styles draws heavily on elements of the Blues. In fact if you want to become a great player of gospel, [...]

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 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 [...]

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! L earning how to read music is like learning another language. It has its own letters, syntax and grammar. Whether you are learning to play the piano through the classic method or the chord method, you’ll have to be [...]