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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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…
Transposition is a very essential aspect of music every piano/keyboard player should understand. Transposition is the transfer of same music idea (Chords, Scales etc) from one key to another. You may recollect that we learned the song “How Great is…
Earlier, we simply described music intervals as the distance between two notes either played in succession (melodic interval) or together/simultaneously (harmonic interval). Unison (A superimposed interval of a single note) Second (Interval between 1 and 2) Third (interval between 1…
In Music, we have Major Scales and also Minor Scales There are 3 types of Minor Scales: Natural Minor Scale Harmonic Minor Scale Melodic Minor Scale In this lesson, we will focus on the Natural Minor Scale. Just as the…
Do you know that without night time you wouldn’t appreciate daytime that sunlight brings? Major Chords do sound bright and full of energy however playing minor chords in the Mix of your Chord Progression or Song makes your music a…
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to play a song using a mix of both Major and Minor Chords. In the key of C Major, the Major chords are 1,4 and 5 of the C Major…
Major & Minor chords can be altered by simply raising or reducing the 5th note at the top and as a result they will have a new name entirely. A Diminished Triad is a minor chord with a reduced 5th…
Diatonic Chords are chords built from a specific key without any alterations which means every single note (chord tones) of each chord must belong to the current key. In the Key of C Major for instance, the “1 chord” is…
The notes (Chord tones) of a Triad be it Major, minor or diminished Triads can be rearranged carefully to birth inversions of these chords and it won’t lose its name. Triads by default can only be inverted twice to give…