How To Create "Hip" Mature And Lush Harmonies
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Posted August 15th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Rarely is a chord played with its tones contained in a single octave, the root on the bottom, the third in the middle, and the fifth on the top.Usually chords are voiced!This basically means that the positions of a chord's tones are scattered over the keyboard. The tones may be altered, doubled, added to, missing, and so forth.There are a great variety of possibilities available in voicing chords. Voicing chords properly is an art within itself. Using the correct voicing techniques in your pl...
Piano Lesson: Do You Know What You Learn When You Play Piano?
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Posted July 25th, 2009 at 2:00 am
I guess you are learning to play piano in order to become a better pianist. Do you know that there are many secret learning processes in action as you practice on your piano. Let's find out the truth!I presume that you practice on the piano with the hope of becoming a better instrumentalist, pianist and musician and and in order to experience the joy and satisfaction that follows.The learning processes in action as you try to learn to play the piano can lead you forward towards you goals. Howeve...
Piano Lesson: It Is Easy To Compose Piano Sheet Music
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Posted July 18th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Why is it easy to compose piano music?Because you have to start from where you are. This should be fairly easy; Otherwise you have not started from where you are.A suggestion is to start writing piano pieces for beginners in a progressive order. The idea is that as the pieces get more complicated for the player they will also become more complicated for you to notate and compose and you will subsequently learn as you write.How is composing beneficial for your piano playing?1. Your compositional ...
Piano Lesson: Learn To Play Mary Had A Little Lamb Without Reading Sheet Music
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Posted July 4th, 2009 at 10:00 am
In this piano lesson you will learn to play Mary Had A Little Lamb without the use of sheet music. We will be a little bit professional and use both hands!As you probably know Mary Had A Little Lamb is a popular nursery rhyme. Here is the first verse:Mary had a little lamb little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snowIn When testing his invention of the phonograph in 1877 Thomas Edison used this poem and it became the first audio recording to be successfully made a...
It?s Never Too Late To Rediscover The Musician Inside Of You
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Posted June 29th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Do you recall the day you traded in your guitar for a job at the bank or gave up your piano lessons to become a doctor? Have you been thinking about rediscovering your musical roots as soon as your retirement kicks in? Are you still hoping that some day you?ll get to dust off your sax and join the local jam session? If this sounds all too familiar, you?re not alone. In fact, it?s more common than you think for people in the latter stages of life to get the itch to return to their musical beginni...
Play Piano Preparing To Practice
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Posted June 28th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
When the practicing blahs strike, you just need an attitude adjustment. You don't have to sweat blood to practice well. You don't even have to think of it as work, or duty, or even something that you ought to do.Stop a minute and think about it. You like music, and you want to play some special piece that really means something to you. You want it to sound through you - right through your fingertips.Okay? Well, you practice it to fulfill that desire, not to frustrate it.Pause here and ask yourse...
12 Reasons You Should Learn To Play The Piano
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Posted November 2nd, 2008 at 1:27 am
All right, folks, here you go: My 12 reasons why you should start learning how to play the piano. Immediately. As in today. This very minute.Okay, fine, finish this article first, THEN get started. And yes, I know that there are more than just 12 reasons to play the piano. But I happen to like the number 12. :)1) Everyone should play at least one instrument. I truly believe that. Every person on Earth should be able to sit at SOME instrument and be capable of making beautiful music.2) Playing th...
