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How To Use The Metronome To Improve Your Piano Playing

Published on September 18, 2008 By Mickys-Blog

Using a metronome regularly in piano practice sessions will develop a huge amount of strength in the player’s music. Many players are reluctant to use the metronome, it can be very difficult getting the music coordinated with the clicks. But this process of coordinating the playing to the clicks can force a player to let [...]

Sheet Music Theory: Irregular Time Signatures And Grouping

Published on August 29, 2008 By Mickys-Blog

Once you have a firm understanding of simple and compound time you will be ready to learn to interpret irregular time. You can then also begin to understand the methods used to group notes in all types of time. From there on it will be a matter of sitting down to actual sheet music and [...]

Sheet Music Theory: Time Signatures

Published on August 27, 2008 By Mickys-Blog

If you are a new music student there will be a few things you must learn before you can read sheet music. One of the first questions you might hear is what a beat might be. Most new music students will give the only answer that they have. They will answer that they do not [...]

Piano Tutorial – Note Values

Published on August 10, 2008 By Mickys-Blog

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 [...]

Piano Tutorial – Are You Ready To Learn How To Play The Piano (Part 2)

Published on August 8, 2008 By Mickys-Blog

Being ready to learn to play the piano obviously means having a piano keyboard of some sort, so for the purpose of this article we will assume you have access to a piano, organ or keyboard. Before you start to play the piano properly, you need to learn a few basics, just a bit of [...]

Piano Tutorial – The Staff

Published on July 31, 2008 By Mickys-Blog

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 [...]

Submitting Hip Hop Beats And Songs To Record Labels – 6 Tips For Success

Published on June 27, 2008 By Mickys-Blog

When it comes to submitting beats and songs to the music industry, most artists and producers have no idea where or how to get started. The “how” seems to be the more important issue to cover first because once mastered, you’ll be ready to submit music almost anywhere. We’ve created a guide that will help [...]