Welcome to the August 5, 2007 edition of music & piano lessons carnival. Music in general: News & Artists edithyeung presents The Piano (Understanding Your Parents) posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. Some of us are forced to learn the piano during our childhood. But I never regretted that my parents actually force me to continue when I was thinking of dropping the lesson halfway. Alvaro Fernandez presents Yaakov Stern: Build Your Cognitive Reserve posted at SharpBrains, saying, "Unexpected benefit from music and piano lessons: longer brain health..." ...

I am a Be An Idol (aka BNI) member since 2005. I also personally met the website founder, Leslie Fong once in Kuala Lumpur for a very long supper after mid night. He is really a nice guy. I posted  some songs there and got a tons of constructive feedbacks from other songwriters and musicians. You can look at my profile here. Recently, I am lucky enough to get an exclusive interview of the founder. Read the interview below and sign up as a member to get free advice, opinions ...

Click on the image and you will be directed to a website which shows you a spread of piano keys. This tool is not that impressive nor cool. But it is an easy reference page for you to find which octave the notes are in, what is the name of a specific note, what is the MIDI code for it, and also the real frequency of the pitch. If you use Cakewalk Sonar or other DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), you will be able to find all these information. However, this ...

ChordStudio is a free site that let you create a full length music arrangement with just a few clicks using your computer mouse. 1.click chords from the chord chart 2. select the instruments: guitar, drums, piano, organ etc 3. hit play and your arrangement will play repetitively. This probably just take a few seconds to accomplish 4. tempo is adjustable 5. different verse, bridge and chorus can be arrange using the Page Order field. Image: ChordStudio.com homepage I personally think that this is a great website. It is very simple to use and you can have a ...

Undeniably, a pair of good listening ears is the most needed skill of a great musician. Good listening means you are able to hear deep into the music, hear through the notes, grab the relation between pitches, or even identify the absolute pitch. Here is a great site that let you train your ear online. Image: www.Good-ear.comThe training includes intervals, scales, cadences, jazz chords, note location and also perfect pitch. Have fun training your ear!Technorati Tags: ear training, good ear, perfect pitch

Michael Gluck, better known by his stage name Piano Squall released his first album on piano music. He is classically trained concert pianist and performs regularly for charity since 2003. Read the review of his album.Some facts about this album GAME:17 songs from various games and anime1 original workrange from lively to melancholicIt includes "Final Fantasy Battle Medley" - the longest track in the CDthe last track on GAME, "Boss Battle" is a completely original composition that Gluck composed with Michael Huang, a composer and sound designer based in California.Gluck will be ...

Piano for Preschoolers is a program that allows parents to teach their children between the age of 3-8 to play music pieces on real keyboards. It is guided by colour codes and useful even for musically illiterate parents. It was named Dr. Toy’s Best Products Resource Program Summer 2007. The prestigious award proves that Piano for Preschoolers is a leader and innovator in educational toys.Image: Dr. Toy Best Products WinnerImage: Piano for Preschoolers homepage.Get your children learn the different color of the pitch. Perfect pitch hearing is also related to ...

You can listen to jazz standard tunes categorized by artist at Jazz On Line.The website owner is asking downloader to contribute to the hosting cost by subcribing to pay US$5 with Paypal for 3 months unlimited download. The streaming is smooth. These are all very old tune which are probably the standard jazz we used to learn when starting out playing jazz piano. I really enjoy the site. Download some songs that are found in the fake book you have. Listen to the original song and practice with your fake ...

Similar to Soundsnap which is covered here at Pianologist, The Freesound Project is another similar website that compile a huge collaborative database of audio samples and recordings. Released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License, this project provides new and interesting ways of accessing free samples, allowing users to browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license interact with fellow sound-artists! browse sample by tags randomize samples browsing for surprise rate the samples you listen you can ...

There are quite a number of software, application or flash that will enable you to play piano with your computer keyboard. If you want to have a taste of playing the piano but don't want to spend any money to buy yourself a music keyboard, please try out the MidiPiano.Up to date, the latest MidiPiano version 1.8.3 is released on December 18, 2006. You can download it here.If you like the software, you can donate whatever amount your feel comfortable by Paypal International donate(USD): ziziiwan@hotmail.com. Note that we won't get any ...