Piano Lessons

Developing Left Hand Boogie Bass If you want to get your left hand playing a piano boogie bass pattern as shown in this video, you really need to slow things down to start. The key here is to get the pattern to feel good rhythmically and to not try to play it as fast as [...]

http://www.lessonrating.com. Left Hand Boogie Bass Pattern To Use In any Blues Song If you want to get your left hand playing a piano boogie bass pattern as shown in this video, you really need to slow things down to start. The key here is to get the pattern to feel good rhythmically and to not [...]

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 [...]

Perfect Piano-Playing Hand Posture Hand posture and comfort are vitally important while playing the piano or keyboard. Poor hand posture can cause your performance to suffer for two reasons: Lack of dexterity: If your hands are in tight, awkward positions, you can’t access the keys quickly and efficiently. Your performance will sound clumsy and be [...]

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 [...]

Mastering Scales – Free Piano Lesson To be a proficient pianist, one needs to master the basic of piano scales. Do you know that all chords are derived from scales? Knowing how to play piano scales effectively will help you improvise as well as making up melodies of songs. There are two types of scales: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I f for some reason you don’t want the entire course all at once, then check the CD’s you would like and then click on “Submit order” Understanding & Mastering Music Theory 1: The Nature of Sound (vibration, transmission, reception, processing, interpretation) Understanding & Mastering Music Theory 2: Fundamental Notation. (pitch, duration) Understanding & Mastering [...]

Notes on the Black Keys So far, the white keys of the piano that have been conveyed in the previous pages are A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. They are called the natural notes. Meanwhile, the term of sharp notes’, flat notes’, sharps’ as well as flats’ are supposed to the notes that [...]