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How To Color Without Crayons: Adding Color Tones To a Chord Adding color tones to a chord is like adding colors to a black and white drawing; it adds depth and dimension and well as bringing it to life. How To Tell What Major Key A Song Is In Quickly & Easily Key signatures are a type of musical notation that indicate which key the song is to be played in. But key signatures, despite the name, are not the same thing as key. Piano Lessons: Make Sure They Include Chords & Music Theory! Proper piano instruction is an element extremely vital to learning the instrument well. Often overlooked in the teaching curriculum, however, is music theory and chord structure. Transposition and Modulation: How To Transpose To a Different Key & Modulate Between Keys How do transposition and modulation relate? Are they the same? Let's take a look at both of them and see what makes them tick. Music Notes: How Pitch & Duration Are Determined Notes are the musical notation representing a fixed pitch. While the word strictly refers to the physical notation of a pitch, it's more commonly used to refer to both the pitch and the notation. Did You Know That Music Is Based On Natural "Laws"? Did you know that music is based on natural "laws" -- like gravity -- and by learning to understand how those natural laws work we can actually understand what we are doing when we play -- we don't have to be at the mercy of what someone else has written on a piece of music? The Blues Scale & Cool Stuff You Can Do With It Most of us who took piano lessons as kids are all too familiar with scales, and most of us hated practicing them with a passion. But understanding scales and what they do is critical to the process of improvisation as well as key orientation and just a general understanding of what's happening in the song we are playing. Piano Chords: How Many Are There? An interesting experiment is to ask people how many chords there are in music. You'll be surprised to find out that most musicians don't do any better at answering that question than non-musicians. Runs & Fills: How To Add Real Excitement To Your Piano Playing! If you're anything like me, you would love to learn how to "fill up the empty spaces" in the songs you play with scale fragments, chords, broken chords, and so on. Learning how to "fill it up" with runs and fills would certainly take your piano playing to the next level. Music Chords: How To Become a "Chord Detective" And See Through The Notes Right Into The Music! There's a logic behind every note written in music, & you can learn to understand that logic, and therefore understand music. What In The World Would We Do Without Music? What in the world would you and I do if there was no such thing as music? Can you imagine a world without music? No songs, no tunes, no rock, no roll, no jazz, no hymns, no boogie-woogie, no country-western, no symphonies. No singing in the shower. No whistling Dixie. 33 Tips to Becoming a Great Pianist "There are at least 33 elements that contribute to becoming a good pianist," says Duane Shinn, pianist and owner of Keyboard Workshop in Medford, Oregon. "There are probably more, but without these 33 principles a pianist cannot hope to rise to the level of his ability." How To Play More Notes On The Piano Without Reading More Notes! Most people learn to play the piano by playing just the written music. Playing by written music is exactly what the phrase says it is -- playing the exact notation on a piece of sheet music. How To Predict Which Chord Comes Next In A Song It is quite possible to predict which chords will occur in a given song, once you know the key and understand the "guts" of music theory & chord progressions. How To Match The Melody Notes Of Any Song To A Chord In Your Left Hand! Is it really possible to know which chords go with which notes in a song without having to depend on the written sheet music? Can you pick out a song by ear and then harmonize that tune with chords that match it?
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