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…
Alternative of piano programming
Try create a song using Grotrian Piano. You can drag and drop different note (pitch) into the main playing box. The note will play when it hits the wall. You can even drag a chord into the box. Tempo is not so flexible. I would like it to have a “save” function for our composition…
How to get more people to learn piano
I love this instrument and this is the only musical instrument that I play well. I started a blog about it with my engineering course mate -CEFam in year 2007. Since our blog are so new, the traffic we get is not encouraging. We want to get more people to learn piano. In order to…
Best piano lesson
I was introduced to Best Piano Lesson site by The Best Music Sites on the Internet. If you don’t know much about piano and would like to learn to play or just want to know more about piano, you should visit this site and take all the free lessons there. Below is the contents of…
Ostinato patterns in improvisation
Ostinatos are to classical music what riffs are to popular music. There is a great explanation of the definition of ostinato at Wikipedia. In short:- In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: “stubborn”, compare English: obstinate) is a motif or phrase which is persistently repeated at the same pitch. The repeating idea may be a…
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Ranking the best jazz pianist
Who is the best jazz pianist of all time? Click here to find out more about them! server
Chucho Valdes – Son No.1
I have never seen a pianist be able to play so fast chops and technique in just one piece of composition. Chucho Valdes is really amazing. He plays the piano like it is a toy! Simply hitting the keys but it still sounds good. A real master indeed [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCME9tp9Es]
Joe Sample & Randy Crawford – Street Life
Joe sample is one of my favourite pianist of all time. His improvisation is the most melodious I heard so far compared to other pianist. He can really make the piano sings! The video shows one of his live recording session. Drummers, double-bassist, Joe Sample himself playing the piano and Randy Crawford singing Joe’s composition…