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How To Play The Piano Using "Shorthand" -- Chord Symbols -- Instead of Reading the Full Score
Most people who took piano lessons as a kid, including me, grew up learning to read music exactly as it is written on the printed page. Being able to read music is a valuable skill, and I am delighted I learned that skill at an early age.
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 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?
How To Make a Fortune Teaching Piano (or Guitar, or Drums, or Singing, or...) To Beginners
Every year millions more kids get to the age where their parents start thinking about getting music lessons for them, so your prospect list is constantly getting bigger every day. There are plenty of beginners to go around, so competition is really not an issue at all for a person who loves both people and music.
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 Many Guitar Chords Do I Need To Know?
Most simple songs contain just 3 chords called "primary chords". So even a stark beginner can learn 3 simple note groups well enough to strum along and accompany himself as he sings. But after that, the sky is the limit; there are thousands of possible chords, so it is up to the individual guitarist as to how many he or she wants to master.
How Many Chords Are There, Anyway?
Since chords (the main component of harmony) are one of the three most vital elements of music - the others being melody and rhythm - it would be useful to know how many chords there are. And it doesn't matter whether you play piano or guitar or some other instrument - chords are chords.
Five Great Practice Ideas I Learned From My Piano Students
Sometimes the teacher learns more from the student than the student does from the teacher. Hopefully, not too often, but today I would like to share with you some great practicing ideas that have come from my piano students over the years.
Exciting Improvising: How to Make Up Music Out Of Your Head As You Play
Improvisation (also known as improvising) is the act of making something up as you go along -- an act with which we all have a little experience.
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?
Christmas Carols You Can Play This Christmas With Just 3 Chords!
Did you know that there are literally thousands of songs you can play if you know just 3 chords? And some of them are Christmas Carols that you can learn to play this Christmas if you know, or are willing to learn, three simple chords.
Can You Really Learn To Play a Musical Instrument From an Online Course?
Out of the 250 million people in the United States, about 25 million of them play an instrument of some kind, or at least used to when they were in school and would like to pick up where they left off. Another 30 million or so sing in a church choir, a barbershop quartet, or at the very least, in the shower.
Can YOU Play All The Major Chords in 3 Seconds or Less?
Some people go through their entire lives not being sure about what such and such a major
chord is -- and it's all so unnecessary, because you can memorize them in just a few
minutes, and learn to play them in 12 seconds or less - one second per major chord.
Can You Become a Boogie-Man or Boogie-Lady?
Boogie music, also known as boogie woogie, is a genre of piano-heavy music particular to America in the 1940s and 50s.
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."
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