On your first piano lesson whether it be with a teacher, piano software course or tuition book you want to memorise what the notes are called on a piano. It doesn’t matter whether you are learning piano, accordion, electronic keyboard or even harpsichord. All the notes are the same and they are incredibly easy to [...]
I hope this mini piano tutorial has helped you with your piano lessons. We are up to our final lesson in this series called Note Values. So lets get started. In this lesson we will look at three different types of notes with different beat values. In Notes on the staff you learned what a [...]
Todays lesson is about a very common musical note called Middle C. Today I will show you how to recognise this note on sheet music. Middle C is an important reference note on the staff and the keyboard. If I ask you to play C on the keyboard. You might say which one. Now if [...]
Todays lesson is about musical notes on the staff and what they are called When learning notes on the staff, rather than learn each individual note you will learn Lines and spaces As you saw in the previous lesson. The staff consists of 5 lines and 4 spaces and you will learn what notes are [...]
Are you ready for your second lesson. Todays lesson title is: The Staff In its simplest form the staff looks like this Basically 5 lines and 4 spaces (the spaces are between the lines). Musical notes are written on the lines like this Or in the spaces like this Or a combination of both Now [...]
Okay let’s get started with your first lesson. First, we are going to look at the keyboard. There are many sizes of keyboard. Traditionally a full size piano keyboard is 88 notes. Electric pianos and workstation keyboard are normally 76 notes. Electronic keyboards such as the popular Yamaha Tyros are 61 notes and finally beginner [...]
Obviously, the first essential item you need is a piano keyboard. This can be a piano, electronic keyboard, electric organ or an accordion. If you don’t have a keyboard yet you can easily find a used model online. Check out our list of pianos and keyboards for sale on eBay. If you want to ask [...]
In part one of this two-part article, we discussed the benefits and drawbacks of using tuition books to learn how to play the piano or keyboard. In part two we will look at piano software courses. Why they are so popular and how they compare against tuition books. The benefits of piano software courses The [...]
All keyboard players as well as organists can use this method of learning chords if you are prepared to play your own bass notes or bass pedals to match the chord. Electronic keyboards with the “Auto-Chord” feature cannot use this method because the keyboards computer selects the bass note for the chord you are playing. [...]
There are many types of chords but in this article, we will deal with major triads and minor triads and how to construct them. First, let us deal with the language used to identify major chords and minor chords. If you are familiar with sheet music and you see a C chord symbol above the [...]
