Introduction to Music
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Music is a Language
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The Building Blocks of Music
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Why Learn the Piano?
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Piano/Keyboard Overview
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Keys & Notes
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The 7 unique notes
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Learning Melodies
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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!…
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…
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…
The Circle of 4ths is one of the most revolutionary tools used in music for many purposes and understanding musical concepts at a glance. The Circle of 4ths is a circle consisting of keys in order of intervals of perfect…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…