Sunday, July 26th, 2009 at
11:44 am

Piano Notes. It’s the most important thing that you must understand when learning the piano. For people who are just starting to learn the piano I ant to emphasize how crucial it is to get this aspect right, I’m writing this because the notes are the focal point of all music.
Mastering this will easily mean that you will become a great piano player. It’s almost a guarantee as everything else comes naturally when playing the piano thereafter; the pieces definitely fall into place for you, so start learning by visiting this post – Click Here
Saturday, July 25th, 2009 at
12:52 pm
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009 at
9:55 am

Piano players love improving their memory so that they can play songs without the score in front of them. In this article I will provide you with tips so that you can improve your memory.
I always recommend this for improvement. – You should firstly play a piece that you can play easily without the score in front of you.
You now need to split it into 7-14 bars so that it’s shortened. Your aim now is to create a section which can be repeated or looped and you need to make sure it sounds reasonable.
While playing your piece, try and look away from the printed score in front of you whenever you feel like you can. Repeat this for as many times as you can until you can do it without thinking, then move onto the next bar.
As you are practicing this, you can put together the bars so that everything flows, have a couple of tries at this, you’ll get there in the end.
Practice this everyday and you’ll soon start to easily improve and before you know it you won’t need that printed score in front you.
Here are some more tips –
• Don’t memorize individual notes, this will hinder you.
• Any bars that you find hard should be memorized beforehand.
• Looping your music will help when learning musical pieces
So there you have it, I tried to keep it as simple as possible for you. By doing this your confidence and progression will increase tenfold, as well as your ability to play piano songs.
Saturday, July 11th, 2009 at
4:41 am
Read each note before playing, however you need to get used to not pressing any keys to hear the sound. Memorizing this will improve this aspect of your piano playing significantly; you can try it on when playing C major.
You will then have to move onto trying other keys so that you are learning across the board.
You can make this more fun by getting your friends involved to help you. To do this you can close your eyes and tell your friend to play a key. You will then have to correctly press the right key; there are also many other variations that you could try to make it easier for you.
Monday, July 6th, 2009 at
8:32 am

Many, if not most of us who had been to school would have had music as a part of our curriculum. We have all studied do-re-mi and the different notes like the whole, note, half note etc. We have also been taught about the Treble Clef or the G-clef and the Bass or F-clef. If you had music as a subject, as a second grader you should been taught the basic theories of music and are most probably acquainted with FACE and the Every Good Boy Does Fine notes on the staff. If not, let me refresh your memory.
The black notes on the line or spaces of the grand staff (g-clef and F-clef) represent the tones on your piano. The letter F, A, C and E falls on the four spaces of the G clef of the grand staff (the upper 5 lines) and in that order. F occupies the first space at the bottom and E occupies the last space at the top. So we have F for the fa note, A for the La note, C for do and E for mi. Now the phrase “every good boy does fine” falls on the lines. The first line is E or as was said earlier the note mi, G is sol, B is ti; D is re and F is again fa. So your basic do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti notes are the tones C-D-E-F-G-A-B in order.
A piano keyboard has 88 notes or keys, with seven sets or octaves beginning with the A tone on the left or the lowest octave and a C tone at the right or the highest octave. The “middle C” as the name implies is at the very middle of the whole keyboard it is the 40th tone if you count all the keys on the piano both black and white beginning at the lowest end or at the left end of the keyboard. So all the notes on the G-clef or Treble clef of the music piece falls on the right side e of the middle C in your piano; while all the notes on the F-clef of the Bass-Clef falls on the left side of the middle C.
You should also remember that all the natural notes are played on the white keys of your piano while sharps (#) and flats (b) in your music piece are played on the black keys. If it’s a sharp you go the black key on the right. If it’s a flat you play the black key on the left. These are the basics you should know before even exercises on the piano itself.