Piano Lessons

Keyboard Notes – Major and Minor Scales The variation between two contiguous keyboard notes can be either a tone or a semi-tone, depending on which particular notes are being referred to. At any rate, the smallest distance between any two keys is a semi-tone – for example, this is the distance between F and F#, [...]

This probably was a good book in 1907, but too much has changed for it to be valuable now. The author’s repeated references to square pianos, “international” vs. “concert” tuning frequencies, and tuning to C-517.3 are comically antiquated. I appreciate a mathematical approach to tuning, but the discussions in chapters 8-14 are a clumsy attempt [...]

You cannot find all information about keyboard chords, scales and fingerings in a single book. Western music books are being sold in parts. You are bound to purchase part two or three. The most important thing you can do is to make a commitment to learn the piano or keyboard. This means putting in the [...]

Play Notes All Over The Piano Keyboard! The Piano Has 88 Keys — why Not Learn To Use Them All? New pianists learn notes first. An understanding of musical notes and their values is the foundation for learning any instrument. That includes the piano. The values of the notes are easy to remember because their [...]

You might be a first timer taking up a new interest in music… or maybe this is your second go at learning to play the piano. Like most music students, you dream that you’ll soon be playing your own favorite songs on the piano. Perhaps you look forward to the fun of playing the piano [...]

How To Become Better At Piano Sight Reading Becoming an efficient piano or music sight reader takes a lot of practice. There are a few rules that will help speed up and help improve your sight reading abilities. Do you know that music sight reading skills and accompaniments skills are the two most important skills [...]

Overview This bundle combines our acclaimed eMedia Piano & Keyboard Method software with a robust, high quality, full-size, touch-sensitive, 49-key, MIDI keyboard that you play through your computer speakers. Our specially-designed MIDI keyboard features pitch bend and modulation controllers, MIDI out port, USB port and a sustain pedal input jack. Connect the keyboard to your [...]

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: [...]

A piano is a very wonderful instrument, the music of which floats through the atmosphere, enchanting every quantum of universe through which it passes. Legendary composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Chopin made very famous compositions using the Piano. The music made on the piano is conventionally scripted in the form of staff notations [...]

The Associate of Arts in Performance (Keyboard) program includes a combination of general and instrument-specific courses designed to produce skilled, knowledgeable, stylistically and technologically versatile contemporary keyboardists. Courses are described below (see course catalog for specific course descriptions and other information). Combined with regular seminars, clinics, and small open counseling sessions with internationally-known musicians, the [...]