Musicians are often practicing groups of notes played one at a time in order, on their instruments. This is a very common way to develop speed and skill, hand independence and practice playing at slow or fast tempos. These notes musicians are often practicing are called Scales, which are actually called diatonic and chromatic scales. …
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Timbre, texture, and tone are three interconnected ideas in music. To the beginning pianist, these ideas may seem nearly identical. It is true that even the most advanced professional musicians will occasionally use these three words interchangeably. However, that is not because they do not know the meaning of them. In this article, we will …
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Learning the blues is an integral part of modern music making. The power and influence of the style can be felt in most forms of contemporary popular music and the music carries historical lessons and legacies that are vitally important. Particular scales have emerged out of the music called the blues scales. You might be …
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Learning to play an instrument is a series of small victories. First you learn how to create sounds, then press keys accurately. Soon you’ll know the names of all the notes, and how octaves are just the same notes but played higher or lower. Eventually you start playing chords and playing with two hands at …
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The more time you spend around musicians, the more words you will hear that have only to do with music. A very common term said by musicians is “major scale”. Major scales are incredibly common, and are one of the first steps to learning about music in a sophisticated way. Scales related to music of …
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Everytime a musician sits down to play a piano they are limited to what they can play. The notes that come out of the instrument are either chords, arpeggios, or scales. Understanding and mastering scales is the key to playing an instrument well, but first we have to understand what they are. Scales are a …
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The great strength of learning to play the piano is being able to use the incredibly large range of notes on the keyboard. Standard keyboards have 88 keys, and that gives us a lot of room to work with. Unfortunately, there are only 5 lines on the treble and bass staff. How can we use …
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Sheet music is a language, and sometimes learning to read a new language can be challenging. This is a very special type of language called music notation, and we use lots of different types of images and pictures to help musicians tell the difference between different notes. Some of these musical symbols we use are …
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The grand staff is one of the most important reading concepts to master on the piano. Most piano music is notated on the grand staff. Because of the grand staff’s extended range, we can easily see which parts of our music should be played with the left hand and which parts should be played with …
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In this post we’ll show all you have to know about easy piano chords for beginners. The piano is a very versatile instrument – it allows you to play almost an entire orchestra with just two hands. If you’re familiar with Skoove’s courses, you’ll notice that in the Beginner Courses we emphasize playing the melody …
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Playing the piano, just like any other instruments, involves reading notes off the score. Inevitably, the quicker you recognize which note to play and which key to press on the piano, quicker you get to play music. That’s obvious right? At Skoove, you will find a practical course on this subject: Beginner Theory I – …
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