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Music for Stark Beginners: How To Read Notes
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 [...]
Swing Bass for Piano: Get Your Left Hand In Action
The piano style is called “swing bass” because your left hand swings back and forth between a low note (or group of notes, such as a 10th, alternating with a chord in the area right below middle C. You definitely know the sound of swing bass when you hear it, even though you may not [...]
Piano Tutorial – Middle C
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 [...]
Piano Tutorial – Notes On The Staff
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 [...]
Piano Tutorial – Are You Ready To Play The Piano?
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 [...]
Piano Tabs: Learn To Play White Christmas With Keyboard Tablature
This piano lesson will help you read piano tab notation or keyboard tablature. You will find that this type of notation is easy to understand even if you cannot read music sheets. As an example we will use the Christmas song White Christmas. If you do not understand sheet music at all I encourage you [...]
Piano Tabs: Learn To Play Happy Birthday To You
Piano tab notation will help you learn melodies without knowing sheet music. In this piano lesson you will learn to read easy piano tabs. You will also learn to play Happy Birthday To You! If you do not know how to read piano sheet music I suggest that you try to learn it. If you [...]
Semi-Tones And Tones On A Piano, Organ And Keyboard
Semitones and tones are distances from one key to another key on a keyboard. For example if we play middle C on the keyboard and then play the next white note to the right which is D then that distance is one tone. For those of you not familiar with a keyboard then get my [...]
How to Play the Keyboard: Start With C Major
Playing the keyboard is not as difficult as a lot of piano upstarts think. In fact, the piano is the perfect instrument for music beginners, as, unlike other instruments, its layout is straightforward and easy to understand. Plus, in contrast to instruments like the guitar, to play the keyboard doesn’t require a lot of unnatural [...]
