Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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Most musicians find that even if "playing by ear" seems hard to them, a simple game or exercise like this actually is totally manageable - and from there you can build up your skills, step by step.
Some of these symptoms include feeling weightless or heavy, tingliness, feeling as though you're spinning or falling, hearing voices or sounds...
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C major, G major, D major and A major account for more than a third of all songs. In pop music specifically, C major and G major along with A minor...
Read More »“Playing by ear is something I've always known was important to include in piano lessons.” Why? Learning a musical instrument should be a way to enable us to experience music around us. The best skill we can equip ourselves and students with is to be able to sit down and play our instrument without any music in front of us. There's no reason why I should be nervous to harmonise simple folk tunes around the campfire or play a spontaneous melody of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Jesus Loves Me when a child requests. When I first started teaching, there was a problem though - I had NEVER been able to play-by-ear. How in the world could I teach my students to do so?! I was 100% traditionally trained through reading only. While I had "ear training" courses in school, it still never came easily to me or "clicked" until a few years ago. (Well it's still not easy but it's getting easier). What was the difference? Music Learning Theory. Learning the principles of this philosophy by Edwin E. Gordon has completely changed the way I approach teaching. I used to think the very first thing I should be able to do to play by ear is to be able to play melodies. I felt like I was hitting in the dark and even when I found the correct pitches, it took awhile to remember how to play the melody by "memory." Now I realise that it's more about developing our ear for the essential pitches and tonal patterns by which music is constructed as well as the root-tone harmony. One of the first steps is simply awareness of the resting tone which is what guides our understanding of tonality.
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Many manufacturers use fir, sugar pine or bass wood for their piano keys; Yamaha uses Sitka or Japanese spruce — the same wood as is used in the...
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The highest piano Grade is 8. It requires very high technical skills, and the ability to play the instrument with the use of proper skills and...
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Sonata is a sedative, also called a hypnotic. It affects chemicals in your brain that may be unbalanced in people with sleep problems (insomnia)....
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What is this? Wearing gloves like this means you can maintain a degree of comfort in colder conditions whilst still being able to 'feel' the keys,...
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Overall, the guitar is easier to learn than the piano. If you consider the layout, learning songs, the ability to self-teach and a few other...
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