Piano Lessons

” Hi! I’m Katie and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com to remind you to keep an eye out for rests. Just as it’s important to be aware of the notes that you are playing it is just as important to be aware of the silences or the rests. Younger or beginning musicians are often [...]

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 [...]

“We’re talking about the basics of piano and now what I would like to talk about is the basic symbols and things that you will find in the music. The best way to understand these is to actually go to a music store, again, as we talked about with tempo, and purchase a music dictionary [...]

The question ‘how to read music notes’ is commonly asked by many people who have just taken up learning piano. Sheet music is the score or notation of the song that is to be played on the piano. Theoretically, sheet music can be rolled out for music of any kind, be it piano music or [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Beginner Piano Music Home Free Piano Sheet Music Beginner Piano Music This page offers a variety of easy piano sheet music for beginners. These pieces are organized in subjects according to level of difficulty . If you just started learning to play the piano well I suggest you follow the beginning piano lessons which concerns [...]

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 [...]

Composing Piano Music for Students Explore simple piano composition formats Avoid odd meters in composing piano music Do not use excessive intervallic leaps Student or amateur level music is especially popular on piano since thousands of kids (and other beginners) take piano lessons everyday. As you might imagine, student-level music is marked by simplicity. If [...]

The five notes on the stave lines spell out Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always. So, from the note on the first line of the stave to the note on the last line of the stave, you have: E F G A B C D E F on the treble clef and G A B C [...]