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Perfect Piano-Playing Hand Posture
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 [...]
YouTube – Left Hand Boogie Bass
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

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 [...]
Piano scales notes, piano lesson on Piano Notes And Scales
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: [...]
How to construct major and minor piano scales

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 [...]
Drills for learning piano chords and 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. [...]