The virtues of piano lessons software cannot be summed up in a few sentences and any praise showered on piano lessons software will be inadequate to describe how much it has helped piano enthusiasts to master the art and technique of playing the piano. When you play a piano in a social gathering, you are [...]
When it comes to playing piano, or any instrument for that matter, there are proven guidelines you can follow to minimize mistakes and speed up the process. While this article mainly focuses on playing an instrument without sheet music (“by ear”), there are rules here that will be beneficial to all types of players. Tip [...]
There are gazillion adults who took piano lessons as a child but stopped playing for various reasons. Some aren’t the least bit interested, but many wish to return to piano playing at some point in their lives. I have never heard anyone express relief that they didn’t learn how to play piano, but I have [...]
The concept of sheet music appears, at first glance, to be a simple on: music printed on large unbound sheets of paper. “Music,” in this instance, refers to musical notation, a written system of symbols representing music. As far as it goes, this is a perfectly accurate definition of sheet music. However, there are actually [...]
Transposition is changing the key of a piece of music, or changing the notes without changing their relationship. This is often done to make the piece of music easier to play or sing. It’s a common practice in bands that don’t perform their own material; the singer may wish to cover a song with vocals [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The latter half of the Middle Ages (circa 1000 CE to 1500 CE) was a turning point in European history. Having finally emerged from the Dark Ages (circa 500 CE to 1000 CE), European civilization finally began to recover the ground it had lost when Rome fell. One of the results of this recovery was [...]
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 [...]
If you would like to learn to play the guitar then at some point you may decide to purchase sheet music in order to learn new songs. The sheet music used for playing guitar is more commonly known as guitar tablature or guitar tabs for short. If you have looked at guitar tabs before and [...]
