Piano Lessons

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 [...]

How To Tell The Key of a Song Every piece of music is written in one key or another, such as the key of Bb or the key of E or whatever. The key signature at the beginning of a score tells what sharps or flats are being used in the song, and therefore what [...]

You may have noticed in looking at your piano sheet music that there are some symbols in the beginning of each line. If you are familiar with them, you recognize that they are sharp signs and flat signs. The sharp signs look like miniature tic tac toe boards, and the flat signs look like a [...]

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 [...]

Series Summary Music is a vibrant and necessary part of the human experience—even a salve for the human condition. Since the first sound wave burst forth from the womb of creation, we have come up with ways to write, record and play musical compositions. We’ve invented fancy-sounding Italian names for every musical idea we could [...]

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: [...]

Chords, which are built on scales, are the basic building blocks of music. If you want to play the piano with freedom and enjoyment, you must first learn the basics so well that they come naturally, without thinking. To do this, you must drill, or repeat, the same pattern over and over, day after day. [...]

Lesson 6…Identifying piano notes In this lesson on piano notes identification we will take the mystery out of knowing what tones (notes) are represented by those “black dots” on and between the lines on a Treble Clef and Bass Clef. Have you ever looked at a piece of sheet music and wondered how the person [...]

HOW TO READ MUSIC, METHOD STATEMENT. (For piano, but applicable to other instruments). Music is a language. Music works in octaves. Music language has 7 letters in its alphabet. All of music teaching apart from this bit, deals with the grammar of the music language, and is generally beyond the scope of this statement. This [...]

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