Learning how to balance your hands on the piano is an important skill to develop. Developing solid and consistent control over your tone, dynamics, and articulation is a skill that is not built overnight. It takes months and years of practice to build a strong sound on the piano. Fortunately, having an awareness of this …
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Practice smarter Some folks spend lots of time practicing piano or other instruments every day, while others do shorter sessions, like 20 minutes a few times a week. But does practicing longer mean you’ll get better faster? Not really. It’s not just about how long you practice, but how smart you practice. Many great musicians …
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Yes, piano lessons for adults do make sense! Throughout my life as a pianist, I have always received praise and admiration from those around me. Uncles, aunties, and friends of my parents tell me how much they wished they’d learnt the piano, but always talk as though it is too late to learn. This idea that it’s …
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The piano keyboard holds many beautiful and interesting patterns. The keyboard can also look a little overwhelming for those who are just starting out! Fortunately, you can sound like a great pianist just by playing a few keys. In this newsletter, we will explore the black keys on the piano. We will first learn the …
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If you are as excited to watch Rocketman in theaters as we are, you probably know that the Elton John biopic will be released on May 31st. The film will not only offer insights into Elton John’s life and work, but also delve into why he yielded so much success throughout his career. And just like …
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The best part of learning to play the piano is when you can finally find piano chords for popular songs and work them out yourself. There’s great joy in playing a fun song with a simple piano arrangement, or looking through simple chord charts and making something up. Finding songs to play on the piano …
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Practicing with proper piano technique can be a difficult habit to develop. But, once you get in the groove of paying attention to your hands, posture, breathing, and tension level your progress on the piano will skyrocket! Once you learn to relax, your hands will fly over the keys like the wind and you will …
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Finger positions are the key to learning to play the piano quickly and well. They allow you to learn difficult music quickly, avoid injury, and master playing fast and at tempos and key signatures that you could never imagine before. Here we cover many techniques to learn piano positions, and apply them to your own …
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When you first begin to learn, you’ll probably start off with a few easy and popular tunes using only the right hand and don’t know how to play piano with both hands. However, as you progress, you’ll start to find that most songs require you to play with both hands at the same time which …
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A scale in music theory is a sequence of notes played in ascending or descending order with a specific interval structure. There are many scales in music. Some are extremely common and fundamental, like the major scale or minor scale. Others are more obscure and only called upon in certain settings, like the whole tone …
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As the release of Avicii’s posthumous album on June 6th approaches, fans have scoured the Internet for hints about the album’s contents while “SOS”, the album’s first single, pulses in the background on repeat. The artist’s death last spring rattled the EDM community and his works ranging from “Levels” to “Lonely Together” are no less …
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Many people ‘wish’ they could play the piano. Many people start, then other factors get in the way. Some people achieve their goals. If every new pianist knew how to make piano practice fun, all of the time, every learner would fulfil their musical ambitions. This article covers all you need to enable better understanding …
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