Piano Lessons

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

A Minor Harmonic Piano Scale Learn How To Play The A Minor Harmonic Scale On Piano! Let’s take a look at the A Minor harmonic scale now. The notes that make up the scale are A, B, C, D, E, F, G#, and back to A. To finger this scale with your right hand, start [...]

Piano Scales Piano scales are great if you know how to use them, you need to know what fingering to use, the best way to practice them, and how much time to put in to them. Below are a whole heap of scales to keep you going with different ways of practicing them, the fingering, [...]

Lesson 4…Chord progressions for the piano Chord progressions are simply movement from one chord to another in a harmonic framework. Translated in language you will understand if you are a beginner piano or music student this means you will be playing chords which, when combined, sound “right” or pleasant to the ear when played and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

12 Bar Blues Piano Chord Progression In this lesson we will be exploring blues piano or more specifically the 12 bar blues progression for piano. We will be working in 4/4 time which means that each “bar” or “measure” will have 4 beats. This gives the 12 bar blues progression a total of 48 beats [...]