Piano Lessons

The C Major Scale The C Major Scale Page 1 The C Major Scale Page 2 This is Lesson #5. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to play the C major scale. What exactly is a scale? All music follows one series of intervals defined by their key signatures. Each scale has a specific key [...]

All 12 Major Scales All Twelve Major Scales from C through to B This is one of the most common scales used in music today, the biggest problem people have with learning a new scale is the fingering, so Im going to show you the most common fingering for each of the major scales over [...]

Lesson 2…Major and Minor Piano Chords Piano chords, or any chord for that matter, are formed by combining two or more scale tones (notes).You now know the tones (notes) that comprise all 12 major scales and you can play these scales smoothly (not necessarily quicklyyet!). It is now time to apply this knowledge and begin [...]

Lesson 1…How to build major and minor piano scales Piano scales are the building blocks so to speak on which piano chords are formed. For our studies we will concentrate on diatonic scales for the piano. A diatonic scale is composed of a series of five whole steps and two half-steps. A half-step consists of [...]

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So the step pattern relationships for any major Ionian scale are a whole step, a whole step, a half step, whole step, whole step, and a half step. Here it is (piano playing). When you learn one scale like say the C major Ionian scale you will be able by applying the same step pattern [...]

“RYAN LARSON: Now I want to talk just a minute on syncopation and rhythm. If we go through this piece, we have four quarter notes in the first measure. Again, a lot of the tunes you’re going to be reading are jazz tunes. You probably already know and you can just match the melody up [...]

Chord keyboard major music Online piano game You can download this game it to your computer. A chorded piano keyboard (also called a chord keyboard or chording keyboard) is a device that allows the user to enter characters or commands formed by pressing several keys together, like playing a “chord” on a piano or guitar. [...]

Boy Willie Berniece’s brash, impulsive, and fast-talking brother, the thirty-year-old Boy Willie introduces the central conflict of the play. Coming from Mississippi, he plans to sell the family piano and buy the land his ancestors once worked as slaves. His impulse is to use the family’s legacy practically—that is, convert it into capital. In this [...]