Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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ABBA, show tunes and Cliff Richard: Queen Elizabeth II's favourite music.
Some people are born with a natural ability due to genetics and seem to find a perfect pitch easily. But broadly speaking, singing is more of a...
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If the piano is older than 40 years old, generally, take a pass on that piano. The exception to this is owner care. If the owner had the piano...
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"Despacito" by Luis Fonsi (left) featuring Daddy Yankee (right) has been the most liked video on YouTube since July 2017, with over 50 million...
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If you can already play songs hands together it'll take you about 4 months to get good at playing piano by ear. If you're a complete beginner and...
Read More »Those two hymns on the list were sung at the wedding of the then-Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten in November 1947. English soprano Alexandra Stevenson performed both hymns at The Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy in February of this year to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. She was joined by the chapel's Master of the Music Philip Berg MVO to perform both pieces of music. But the Queen's taste in music obviously goes beyond a quick top 10, and there are some other big names that Her Majesty was said to be a fan of.
Q: What makes ivory so precious? It has no intrinsic value, but its cultural uses make ivory highly prized. In Africa, it has been a status symbol...
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Ten to Thirty Years Normal regulation and voicing will maintain good tone and touch if usage is moderate. If the piano suffers wide temperature and...
Read More »The Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002 and Diamond Jubilee ten years later were celebrated with performances by a number of pop artists, though we can't be sure (other than Sir Cliff), which ones Her Majesty is a fan of, and which were booked to please her subjects. A couple of days after the classical Prom at the Palace, the all-pop Party at the Palace took place on June 3, 2002. It was memorably opened by Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen (who else) performing the national anthem 'God Save The Queen', with Brian playing the guitar on the roof of Buckingham Palace. Closing the concert was former Beatle Paul McCartney, who kicked off his mini-set with an impromptu version of 'Her Majesty' – the cheeky unlisted coda after 'The End' on Abbey Road. Sir Cliff was there, and as was as performing 'Living Doll' with the house band, he sang his breakthrough 1958 hit 'Move It' with S Club 7 and Brian May. Robbie Williams opened the Diamond Jubilee concert ten years later with 'Let Me Entertain You', and Cliff Richard was of course on the bill once more. This time he played a medley of his hits: 'Dynamite', 'The Young Ones', 'Devil Woman', 'We Don't Talk Anymore', 'Wired for Sound' and "The Millennium Prayer', followed by his 1968 Eurovision runner-up 'Congratulations'. Again closing the show was Paul McCartney, who this time played a run of 'Magical Mystery Tour', 'All My Loving', 'Let It Be', 'Live and Let Die' and 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da'.
There are different versions of the 12-bar blues progression – also called blues changes – but the simplest form uses 3 chords: the I, IV, and V....
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Wal-Mart and Home Depot have them. They look like this, without teeth at all: A bump key is made by using a triangular file (they're at every...
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The Grade 6 Guitar exam is for candidates who have begun to develop advanced technical control and a competent grasp of stylistic techniques.
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It means practicing and perfecting a piece of music until it's like you're “speaking” through that music. It's using dynamics, timing and all of...
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