Beginners Ear Training (Part 3)
If you want to learn to play by ear, and you want to learn to hear and identify chords. This is the place for you.
Beginners Ear Training (Part 2)
If you want to learn to play by ear, and you want to learn to hear and identify chords. This is the place for you.
Beginners Ear Training (Part 1)
If you want to learn to play by ear. If you want to learn to hear and identify chords. You’ve come to the right place.
Train your Ear Online at GOOD-EAR.com
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.…
How to use the Three Pedals of the Piano
Joshua Nemith wrote an articles explaining about the use of the piano pedals. Even though I’ve played piano for years, I still learned something from his post. The Damper Pedal (on your right) produce sustained sounds the sound is reverberated within the framework of the piano when you press the pedals, all the dampers are…
Learn Piano Accompaniment: Simple Bass Pattern
In fact, there are million ways to play a piano accompaniment. I probably know merely a few of them. Through years of practice, I’ve developed my unique style of piano accompaniment especially for vocalist solo in pop and jazz feel. I would like you to know that there is really no strict and rigid rules on how to learn an accompaniment. You can give a few great pianist the same lead sheet or chord chart, we will all play it in different ways. I might be able to imitate some other pianist but definitely I can’t copy exactly the same thing spontaneously. At the end, we are all specialists in our own style. But I can tell that the best musician is still the one who can play whatever created in his/her mind. I am not at that level, yet. However, before I play the accompaniment, no doubt that it is created in my brain first before the neurons trigger my fingers.
Where to Start? MusicBeginnings.com
MusicBeginnings.com is a new blog operated by father and son team. Father plays many instrument and writes all the articles to convince people to take up music lesson. They also recommend Pianologist.com as a free piano lesson site.
How to play a major scale on the Piano
A major scale is a series of notes composed of whole and half steps. A half step is simply the distance from one note to the very next. For example, E to F is a half step. Ab to A is also a half step. A whole step is just two half steps. Bb to…
Piano Wizard versus Piano Hero
I previously wrote a review of an open sourced piano game: Piano Hero. Meanwhile, Piano Wizard is another piano game that claims that it is a fun and useful program that can actually teach you how to play the piano. I will review both of the software here and show you the result of my…