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Create Song Dynamics in Your Song Song dynamics are central to the art of songwriting and music. Learn this songwriting craft so your song development goes to the next level. What's the big deal you might ask? The answer usually is, without them the song gets boring fast.

10 Piano Styles You Can Learn to Play When studying the piano, a student encounters a myriad piano styles. To master the instrument, at least several of these styles must be learned, and all if at all possible.

Top 5 Ways To Develop Your Piano Rhythm When playing the piano, a good sense of rhythm is essential. Here are the top five ways to develop you piano rhythm...

How To Improve Your Sight Reading As most professional musicians will say; no matter how long you've been playing for there is always need for improvement. Most of us have discovered this already, and we can all do with some improvement in our sight-reading skills.

8 Tips For Learning the Art of Sight-Reading Written Music Sight-reading music is a common practice among piano players. This is when you play a piece of music for the first time, even though it may be unfamiliar to you.

How Important is Sight Reading For Piano Players? Sight reading is the act of reading and playing a piece of music before having ever seen it: on sight. This technique is a vital one for musicians to learn. Being skilled in sight reading makes reading a piece of music easier

The Value Of Scales Musicians in all walks of life seem to give far too much, or far too little time and attention to the playing of musical scales.

Interval Ear Training The relationship between two notes is called an "interval" and they are the most basic building block for what we call music. I firmly believe that a comprehensive understanding of intervals is a necessity to improving as a musician, songwriter, composer, and singer.

Learn Piano by Ear - The Fastest Way If you're interested in learning how to play piano by ear, then this article will be of great interest to you. Specifically, we will talk about how this is a very advanced skill, how to train yourself with special pitch training software...

Can You Harmonize The Melody? The melody is a group of notes, played one after the other. The melody is the main tune, like "Here Comes The Bride". You'll know it because it's easy to remember.

What Chords Do I Absolutely, Positively Have To Know? There are thousands and thousands of different chords – everything from basic major chords to minor 7ths to 13ths to suspensions to poly-chords. Someday, you might want to learn all those chords if you don't already know them.

Beginner Secrets for Blues Piano Blues music has inspired various styles of music such as, jazz, rock and roll, and country. Learning blues piano will help you learn these other styles of music very easily. This article will teach you everything you need to know to play blues piano.

Piano Lesson Technique - Rotate Wrists to Add Power & Control to Playing, Even for Beginners The principles of piano technique are not difficult or mysterious. In fact they make perfect sense, but not in an intuitive way that would make students think of trying them first. Instead students do what feels "natural" to them not realizing that good technique has to be developed and that it isn't supposed to "feel natural" until they have practiced them enough for them to become natural.

Music Theory & Harmony - Boring? No! It's An Exciting X-Ray Into How Music Works! It's a sad fact that most people, including piano players, regard music theory and harmony as some abstract concept that has very little to do with the songs they play on their pianos. Nothing could be further from the truth. Knowing music theory and harmony is the key to opening a whole new world of exciting insights into the songs we play, and enable us to do things on the piano we never dreamed we could do, to say nothing of enjoying the process a hundred times more.

How to Read Musical Road Signs - Dynamics and Tempo In order for a piece to be played accurately and with expression and dynamics, written music includes a number of signs and symbols to guide the musician. Some of these include words that tell the musician how loudly or softly to play a note or passage.

A Brief History Of The Piano The piano, that common instrument of school music programs, appears to be the ultimate expression of the stringed musical instrument, which date back to the lyre and the harp. Pianos (a shortening of the compound term "piano-forte") work by striking wires with felted (or leather headed) hammers, with a redaction mechanism that pulls the hammerhead away from the wire before it can dampen out the sound.

Playing Piano is More Than Playing Music We take piano lessons for many different reasons. Many of us wish we can play piano for many different reasons, or started lessons as a child and quit. Whatever the original reason, it's clear that piano lessons are about more than playing music. Whether you're a child or an adult, the learning that takes place at the piano keyboard will reach into practically every corner of your life.

Success Requires a Positive Attitude You are what you think, for what you think you will speak, and what you speak will manifest. If you tell yourself "I can't swim" or "I can't play an instrument" or "I can't make a million". It will be so. You would be absolutely right. Luckily the opposite is also true. If you think you can do something, and you can believe it, you can achieve it. So if you think you can learn to play the piano, and you believe you can, you'll make a plan to be taught.

Piano Practice - Is it Normal to Hate to Practice? Is it normal for a student to hate to practice? Anybody else feel this way? Most people love music, but hate to practice.It's very common for musicians to say they hate to practice. One undesirable aspect of practicing is the simple fact that the musician must practice passages and techniques that are difficult for them to play.

Piano Fingering - Was the Piano Created to Fit Our Hands or the Hands Have to Fit the Piano? Idea 1: fingering written on your music is only suggested fingering, it can be changed. Yes, you can experiment with the fingering and you will find there are several options, sometimes better solutions to fingering.

Piano Students, Spring Into Piano - Add Flexibility and Bounce to Your Playing! Muscle Flexibility is important to playing an instrument such as the piano. This allows a student to play easily, with finger spring, wrist flexibility and control. But surprisingly this important element of playing doesn't begin with the fingertips. It starts in the large muscles of the back, shoulder and upper arms.

Piano Posture - Don't Try to Play Without It Many aspects of playing the piano such as note reading and ear training are intuitive. They just make sense. There are, however, important aspects of piano which are not intuitive. In fact they are counter-intuitive to most of us. That's why a good piano teacher is so important.

Learn To Play Piano Fast!: If you’ve ever wanted to learn to play piano, you are in good company. Many people list “Learn to play the piano” on their New Year’s Resolution lists, or have it as a goal for their future. However, not many people take the steps necessary to learn how to play.

Edward Weiss Piano Playing Secrets: I've been playing the piano for over 14 years now and I've learned a few things. Just a few things that help me stay focused on what is important to me when sitting down to play. Following in no particular order are three "secrets" I've discovered...

Piano Lesson II-V-I - Progressions In C Major: Let me give you some easy progressions that will help you in your improvisational piano playing!What is a progression? A progression is a set of chords played consecutively. Generally, successive chords in a chord progression share some notes, which provides harmonic and linear continuity to a passage.

How To Create A Solo Piano CD - A Step By Step Approach: So, you want to know how someone creates an entire solo piano CD. It seems like a monumental task - and it is unless you break it down! Here's how I do it step by step.

Play Piano - Preparing To Practice: When the practicing "blahs" strike, you just need an attitude adjustment. You don't have to sweat blood to practice well. You don't even have to think of it as work, or duty, or even something that you ought to do.

Is My Child Old Enough To Take Piano-Music Lessons?: Before I give you my opinion on this, I want you to ask yourself this question: “Why do I want my child to take piano lessons?” Proper answers should include these types of responses:

Piano Lessons And The Importance Of Learning Chords And Music Theory: To truly learn to play the piano well, piano lessons and a proper instructor are of utmost importance. Sure, there have been many great self-taught piano players throughout the history of the piano, but even the most naturally gifted piano players know the benefits of having a good mentor can result in a much quicker and more well-rounded learning process for the average beginning pianist.

Piano Care For New Piano Owners: Congratulations, you have just acquired a wonderful new addition for your home! This new addition will not only add beauty to your home, but will also bring musical pleasure to you and your family. Now that you have your new piano, you will want to make sure that you are caring for it properly.

Runs And Fills: How To Add Real Excitement To Your Piano Playing: We've all heard pianists who make us drool with musical jealousy when they play, using a tool box full of lighting-fast runs and clever fills that have us clamoring for more.

Kids Quest - Choosing The Right Time For Piano Lessons: To this day, I feel deprived that my parents didn't sign me up for piano lessons. You see, I have two sisters who are considerably older than I am (ten and 14 years older, respectively). They both learned to play the piano ... Still, to this day, I wish I had learned to play the piano.

Is The Piano Dead?: I'm always amazed at how many people seem to think the piano is no longer popular. Isn't the piano dead, they ask? I mean, do people really still play the piano anymore? They seem to think because there are so many other diversions these days (iPods, xBox, television, the Internet, etc.) there must be very few people still playing the piano.

Value Music Before Theory And Gain A Piano Learning Excellence Experience: Piano is an instrument that almost anybody can learn to play by simply playing by ear and produce some music. Achieving piano learning excellence is not something that just anybody can obtain.

Top Six Reasons To Buy A Digital Piano Instead Of An Acoustic: There are several reasons why piano and keyboard players choose digital pianos over their acoustic counterparts. Let's talk about some of the main reasons.