New pianists learn notes first. An understanding of musical notes and their values is the foundation for learning any instrument. That includes the piano. The values of the notes are easy to remember because their names denote their values. * Whole note: A whole note looks a bit like an egg on its side. It [...]
If you have ever stopped to look at a piece of sheet music you will have noticed many different shapes ranged across the page. Many look like circles that might or might not be totally filled in. Some may look connected by a couple lines or more. There are other strange symbols as well. What [...]
A “minim” is a musical note that is widely used in piano sheet music. In fact, it’s used in all sheet music for all musical instruments. The minim has a hollow non-coloured oval shape with a stem on the right or left side depending on where on the staff it is written. When the minim [...]
To a beginner the world of music theory can seem a daunting one. There are a lot of terms, phrases and ideas that can seem so foreign that they may as well be a different language. Understandably this puts a lot of new players off from starting to learn music theory and apply it to [...]
