Beginners Lessons from the very scratch to a place where you can play simple songs.
Congratulations once more on concluding your first piano lesson. Here’s what you’ve achieved so far: Understanding foundational concepts about Music. Learning about Intervals, Major Scales and the Tonic Solfa Notation of music. Building right practice habits by understanding proper fingering techniques and timing. You’ve learned about basic chords, chord progression and Playing your first song. […]
Since you are now fully equipped with Chords and you understand Chord Progressions, let me show you how to play “How Great is Our God” in the key of C of Major. Remember that In Key C the primary chords are 1, 4 & 5 of the C Major Scale C Major triad (CEG) = […]
A Chord Progression is basically a Pattern Movement from one chord to another. We have various chord progressions however the most common one is the I-IV-V (1-4-5) chord progression. The I-IV-V Chord Progression is used to play lots of songs. This means you are literally moving from the “I chord” to the “IV chord” and […]
I know you rushed here because you want to play your first song. That’s why you need to know what primary chords are first as a beginner. Read this slowly and repeatedly… Primary Chords are basically Major Chords on the 1st , 4th and 5th degree of the diatonic scale. Do you remember the […]
Before now, we have been playing songs with Melodies on the right hand alone but today we will talk about Chords. Chords are the basis for creating harmonies in music. With Melody alone the song isn’t yet complete, you need Rhythm & Importantly Harmony to accompany and make the music both full and enjoyable. A […]
Each note in a specific key has a number assigned to it based on its position. In the key of C Major C is 1 D is 2 E is 3 F is 4 G is 5 A is 6 B is 7 So it is safe to say F is the fourth tone of […]
Every Key you learned in the previous lesson has its character or signature, in music, we call it “Key Signature”. The key Signature is the number of sharps or flats a key possess. For instance, the key of C has no sharps or flats while the key of F has 1 flat. This defines the […]
The Metronome is a music timing device. It helps keep steady timing while practicing music. It is worthy to note that one of the three foundational elements of music is Rhythm which defines a music’s pattern in time. Music will be incomplete,chaotic and less enjoyable without Rhythm, hence we employ the use of metronome to […]
Did you get the F Major Scale? let’s find out in this lesson. Remember the Formula again The Major Scale Formula: W W H W W W H With this formula all 12 Major Scales (i.e each Major key) Congrats! I believe you got the F major scale and now you have the others. But […]