Archive: March 2007

Bill Evans Autumn Leaves Transcription of Solo

Bill Evans, one of the most influential american jazz pianist of the 20th century. Countless studies have been made on his use of left hand harmonies, but what i want to focus on here is his beautifully improvised melody lines. Here I have for you guys is my transcription of his solo also through the song autumn leaves.Hope that all of you can benefit from it as much as i did, but don't forget to .....enjoy and have fun!!! Bill Evans Solo Autumn Leaves Also check out the video clip hereSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bill ...

List of Piano Teachers giving Piano lessons at Portland

If you are staying in Portland, Oregon and searching for great piano lessons, you might be interested to read this post. Here is a list of piano teachers you might be interested in: Sven Zipp-Landers Sven studied classical piano at German for 15 years and moved to Oregon in September 2000. He had been teaching classical piano lessons since year 1994. He provides 30 minutes - 1 hour piano lesson. One thing great about him is that he is willing to travel to your home to give you personal private piano ...

Original Song: Earnest 懂得认真

我写这一首歌,原本是周佑智选唱的。最后并没有收录在他的专辑,所以我想把它占为己有。今天录了一个版本,还有待改进。先送上DEMO和大家分享。 Earnest Lyrics 懂得认真 歌词 [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMIEKGtgiIc]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Original Song: Earnest 懂得认真", url: "http://pianologist.com/kclaus-song/original-song-earnest-%e6%87%82%e5%be%97%e8%ae%a4%e7%9c%9f/" });

Piano Hero: Fun but not practical for taking piano lesson

I tried out Piano Hero today. If you play the dance station at PS2 before, you will be familiar with Piano Hero. There are only 4 pads on the dance pad - front, back, left and right. But on the piano, you guess how many keys are there? 88 keys! How are you going to learn to play the piano just by trying to strike the keys whenever the color "blocks" fell on it? I really doubt that it will teach any beginner to play the piano. However, I still find ...

Video Clips for Piano Beginners

I stumbled upon Omri Goldshtrom video clips about the basic of piano playing. The video clips are available at Expert Village - World's Largest How-to video site. In his series, there are 17 video clips teaching us from the basic piano function, correct posture, to technical scales and chords. If you really have no idea about how to start learning about piano, Omri's series of video clips is really a great help.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Video Clips for Piano Beginners", url: "http://pianologist.com/piano-lessons/video-clips-for-piano-beginners/" });

3 easy steps to play a chord on piano

In order to develop the improvisation skill, the basic to learn is how to play a chord. Before learning to play a simple chord, one must learn the interval - the relationship between notes. Here is the 3 easy steps to play a chord on piano: 1. Play the bass note with your left hand little finger. To play C Maj7, press C with your left hand little finger 2. Play the remaining notes in the chord with your right hand. Here is where our brain do all the maths. In CMaj7, ...

Play your favourite Nintendo music on Piano

Daniel Brown, a very young pianist living at Virginia documented most of the Nintendo game music. Those piano songs include music from Mario Bros and Final Fantasy IV. This site is recommended for intermediate and advanced pianist. Daniel arranged most of the songs and most of them even comes with complete sheet score. If you love playing Nintendo games, this site might be the source for you to increase your repertoire. All the piano recording is available in mp3 form. There are also 3 videos available showing Daniel playing the ...

Too Darn Hot

check out this rough recording of me and my singer friend doing this cole porter classic, imitating the stacey kent version. Sorry about the recording quality and everything due to some technical problems on my workstation, which will be fixed hopefully next week. too darn hot.mp3 If you enjoy this song, you can check out the original stacey kent version.. and stay tune for more good things to come on this site... Enjoy.................SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Too Darn Hot", url: "http://pianologist.com/piano-lessons/advanced/too-darn-hot/" });

Play piano with your PC keyboard

Number A Production create a flash piano. It enable user to play the piano using local PC keyboard. I wish that they extend the function to more than 12 notes (1 octave). The sound is sustained and not key sensitive. Anyway, it will let beginner have a taste of piano if you never play one before. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Play piano with your PC keyboard", url: "http://pianologist.com/piano-games/play-piano-with-your-pc-keyboard/" });

Learn to play Confirmation

Confirmation is a real cool composition by the great Charlie Parker. What I have here for you guys is my own playing of this song... together with a rough transcription of my solo through the standard changes of this song. Like always , enjoy and have fun!!!!! Confirmation solo sheet confirmation.mp3SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Learn to play Confirmation", url: "http://pianologist.com/piano-lessons/advanced/learn-confirmation/" });