Beginners Lessons from the very scratch to a place where you can play simple songs.
I know the topic you see is not what you expected. Just Relax it’s all for a reason. You can’t properly understand what the Major Scale is and how to create major scales including the C Major Scale I just taught you without knowledge of Musical Intervals. Interval in music is the distance between two […]
Melody is one of the aforementioned elements of music. it is the recognizable tune of a song. Can you “hum” to Mary Had a Little Lamb? How about “Twinkle Little Star” You just “Hummed” the melody… Yeah it’s obvious So this is your first bet when learning new songs on the piano “The Melody” In […]
Have you ever watched the movie Sound of Music? If you haven’t, it’s recommended that you do it before proceeding with this lesson. Well, you don’t have to watch the entire movie, just about 3 minutes clip of it and you are done. Watch Sound of Music below In music we have keys […]
In the last article, it was noted that no matter how large a Piano Keyboard is it will always have a particular repetitive set of 12 visually unique keys. Remember we have 12 months in the Calendar anytime you want to remember, we have 12 visually unique keys. These 12 Keys can be categorized based […]
The Piano keyboard is a musical instrument with visible Keys/Notes that deliver unique sounds/pitches when pressed. It is worthy to note that the inventor of the Piano is Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) of Italy. We have various types of Pianos/keyboards ranging from Acoustic Pianos to digital/electrical Keyboards. Acoustic Pianos are commonly expensive than Digital Pianos. Acoustic […]
In my experience, I have taught people who had various reasons why they want to learn the piano. I discovered also that their motive for learning the piano determined how fast they learned and also far they went with it. Have it in mind that Fast and Far are two different words with two different […]
The 3 most common Building blocks (Elements) of Music are : Music isn’t really complete without all these elements. If anything is missing, I will call it ill-music. But for real, healthy music must contain all these elements. Let’s explain each element: Understanding each element of music and effectively applying in your music gives you […]
Consider this paragraph now. It consists of alphabets, which form words, and then words that form sentences. Music has alphabets too; it’s called a scale. Consider… A-Z in the English Language For music it is A, B , C , D , E , F & G. Each letter is called a music note. A […]
Music? Why not piano? The piano is simply a musical instrument and if we are really going to learn it, then we need to know the basics of music itself. Trust me, you are going to learn much more than you bargained for with a really simplified approach. let’s go… What is music, then? “Music […]