LEARN HOW TO PLAY PIANO

Archive for July, 2009

Learn To Play Drums Online - 3 Reasons!

Learn to play drums online, unless you want to pay way too much money for an inferior education… at a snail’s pace. It’s entirely up to you.

Did you know that you can learn to play drums online starting right now? There is no need to crack the yellow pages, call anyone, make appointments, negotiate terms, or even leave your home! This is just one of the Read the rest of this entry »

How can you use a fake book to become a better pianist? A fake book includes a lot of melodies due to the concise format. Let us use a fake book to make you a better chord player!

There are many things you can do with just one song in a fake book. In this piano lesson we will focus on the chords of a song and how we can use them in a piano practice session.

You can learn to play piano chords in many Read the rest of this entry »

There are all kinds of reasons to play piano but really, the bottom line is you are going to be making music. Make music and you can get all the side benefits like reducing stress, adding dendrites to you physical brain (that’s a good thing), relaxing, learning new things, entertaining friends. However, the bottom line is you are playing piano to make music.

Here is a very important point. The following Read the rest of this entry »

Laurel Zucker & Mark Shapiro-Master Music for Flute & Piano

The consistency of the compositions is remarkable. The long time team of Laurel Zucker & Mark Shapiro unite once again on a selection of compositions from influential composers …

Artist: Laurel Zucker & Mark Shapiro

Title: Master Music for Flute & Piano

Genre: Classical

Label: Cantilena Records

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You may have heard that you need to hire a professional piano teacher in order to really learn to play piano but that’s simply not true. There are a lot of reasons not to hire a piano teacher. The biggest reason is that a piano teacher can be very expensive. It takes a lot of lessons to become a good piano player and every lesson will cost you. By the time you get to be any good you may have spent Read the rest of this entry »

Getting Started With Piano Note Reading

Many people think of musical notes as some mysterious alternative language. The truth is that musical notation is not all that sophisticated or complex, it just requires some memorization before you’re fluent enough at piano note reading to read the notes faster than your fingers can touch the keys. For those who struggle with memorization, consistently performing Read the rest of this entry »

Private instruction is normally the most effective method of how to learn piano, but if you believe that having a private instructor isn’t for you, then don’t worry, there are plenty of other ways to learn piano. As a matter of fact there are a online piano courses that do an excellent job in teaching how to learn piano. If you decide for yourself you want to teach yourself to play piano, you should Read the rest of this entry »

Should I Buy a Keyboard or Digital Piano?

Difference between keyboards, synthesizers, digital pianos, and organs.

If you are going to take piano or keyboard lessons, you will need some type of piano or keyboard. This is an absolute must if you want to progress! You will need something…anything is better than nothing…”but what”, you may ask. “What do I do”? Well, read on because Read the rest of this entry »

If you have ever been to a wedding or another social gathering where the piano was being played, and you wished that you could play it, then you may want to learn how to play piano. Popular songs like the wedding march can get you a lot of work if you know how to play it well. Learning any new skill can benefit and enrich your life. Whether you want to play professionally as a hobby, learning to play Read the rest of this entry »

Amazing Grace for piano is a popular song on the internet. In this piano lesson we will learn to play this song with melody and chords without the use of sheet music. We will start by finding the note C.

The note C on your piano is found on many places on the piano keyboard. C is always to the left of two black keys on the keyboard. Let’s find the middle C on the piano.

The middle C is often called C4 Read the rest of this entry »