Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Fingertip soreness is temporary and can last a week or more. It doesn't require treatment, although icing and numbing creams can provide short-term relief. But again, simply playing guitar until you build up some calluses, is the best remedy.
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Read More »You’ve started to learn how to play the guitar and before you know it, your fingertips are on fire. You wonder … is this normal? Why do my fingers hurt from playing guitar? We’ve all heard the old adage, “no pain, no gain,” but don’t worry, this fingertip sensitivity is temporary and we have some tips to get you through the torture.
David Gilmour is a big proponent of the minor and major pentatonic scales. These are 5 note scales, pretty much the simplest scale a guitarist...
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Learn More »C♯ and D♭ are enharmonically the same. This means that they are played by the same key on a piano, but they have a different musical meaning and they actually should sound a tiny bit different (although the difference is minimal).
In equal temperament, the keys are equivalent. But there are two things to consider... First, the number of sharps or flats in the key signature. In general, Db would be preferred over C#, because your key signature will have five flats instead of seven sharps. You'd prefer B over Cb because the key signature will have five sharps instead of seven flats. The keys of F# vs Gb are a toss-up: you have six altered pitches either way. But the second consideration is the one important to your question, because you mentioned clarinets - they're a transposing instrument. If you're writing for only "C instruments" (which produce a C pitch for a written C, even if that pitch is in a different octave) there's no general preference. But not all instruments are C instruments. French horns are "in F" - when a C is written, an F sounds from the instrument. As a consequence, French horn music will have one more sharp (or one less flat) in the key signature to sound the same as the C instruments. Clarinets, trumpets, and tenor saxophones are "in Bb". When a C is written, Bb sounds - so they need two more sharps or two fewer flats. And the Eb instruments like alto sax or alto clarinet are going to need three more sharps, or three less flats. So if you're writing a piece that could be in F# or Gb, and you're going to include an alto sax, they'll be looking at either three flats or nine sharps (yes, nine - double sharps on the F and G). Flat keys are preferred for any piece that includes the transposing instruments. Nobody likes seeing double sharps in a key signature.
I was deeply saddened at so hard a fate.” Once his hearing was fully gone by age 45, Beethoven lost his public life with it. Giving up performing...
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Children Age 7-10: 30 minutes, 3 times per week. At this age, scheduling a specific time to practice piano daily is crucial. Depending on how busy...
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We discovered that typing on a flat keyboard is better for your wrists and hands, but an even better typing position is with the keyboard angled at...
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The piano is one of the most difficult and rewarding instruments to learn; not only do you have to learn to read notes and translate them to the...
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