Memorizing Piano Scores: How long can it stay in your memory?

by KCLau on May 16, 2012

People have been debating the pros and cons of the memory technique used in taking piano learning lessons. Some of the champions of this technique line up a long list of benefits those can be accrued from this technique. Their major claim for the suitability of this technique lies in the perception that the player [...]

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Playing Piano Chord is the Key to Freedom of Playing by Ears

May 9, 2012

If you are playing several notes at the same time, then you are playing piano chords. Simply put, when multiple notes are played together, piano chords are achieved. The chords then come together to accompany a melody. Every song that you hear has a melody and it is through the different chord progression that dictate [...]

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How to clean your piano keys?

May 2, 2012

I am sure that many of you would be passionate about music and might be having a piano or a keyboard to enjoy this pleasant joy given to us. There are different sort of music instruments that people usually owe such as guitar, trumpet, drum, woodwinds, strings or piano. Out of these pianos is the [...]

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How to take your Piano Playing to the Next Level

April 25, 2012

Are you ready to finally learn how to play piano despite years of lessons? If you’re like many students of the piano, all your lessons and all your practicing have only gotten you so far. Many had given up after just a few years of learning. Maybe you’ve found that you’ve hit a wall in [...]

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Is digital piano an adequate substitution?

April 18, 2012

A piano is a musical instrument that is classified as a keyboard, percussion, or string instrument, depending on the system of categorization used. Piano is probably one of the complicated machine that’s invested centuries ago that is still being made now. Playing the piano is wide-spread in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and [...]

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Learning Jazz Standard: How High The Moon

April 11, 2012

This is my transcription of the solos in the song “how high the moon”, dee dee bridgewater version. Attached to this post are the vibraphones, trumpet and saxophone solos in that song. Plenty of 2-5-1 turnaround in that tune, will be very useful to any jazz learners out there. check out the technical review attachments [...]

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5 Most Important Tips on Piano Lessons

April 11, 2012

Must-Have information before deciding on Piano Lessons! Music is a very important part of our lives. It does a lot more than just please our ears – it is an integral part of human development. Several years ago, there was an experiment done by scientists at the University of California at Irvine in 1993. (published [...]

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The secrets of pop music arrangement

April 7, 2012

Click the link below will download a power point file.I prepared the file to share about music arrangement during a song writing camp year 2006. It is in Chinese languange. Secret of Pop Music Arrangement

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Brad Mehldau – John Boy (music sheet transcription)

September 3, 2010

This is the opening song from the album Highway Rider, released in this year. In this piece we can remark traditional 2nd minor intervals and semiquaver rhytmic feel, used very often by Mehldau. You can listen to original version in above YouTube content and download the music sheet here.

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