Free Piano Music Playing Course
May 24, 2010 by Ryan Edward · Leave a Comment
There are a vast number of piano teachers who offer their services and an overwhelming number of software and books available. There is also an incredible amount of online courses for you to choose from. But the problem is that not all teachers, software, books and online courses can teach you in a way that lets you really learn the material without it costing years of your time and a sizeable investment of money.
Some private piano teachers are very skilled at playing the piano, but their teaching methods leave a lot to be desired. They were trained to play the piano, not be a teacher. Most software and books are written to go hand in hand with private tutoring.
Without a teacher, you won’t grasp the instruction. Lastly, many online courses promise that their course is the best and they promise that you can learn piano well in a short amount of time. But when you purchase the course, you discover just the opposite is true – and every lesson in the course is a struggle.
With all of those options available, how can you choose the best course of action to take when you want to learn how to play the piano? You choose the product that will allow you to see exactly what they promise you up front. No hidden fees, no surprises. Few courses will let you see their material without a purchase, but Rocket Piano does.
Rocket Piano takes you behind the scenes with their six part mini course to give you a taste of the incredible instruction offered in their course. Why do they make such an incredible offer? It’s the difference between a love of teaching piano and only wanting to sell a product. Rocket Piano wants to share the beauty of playing piano with everyone who desires to learn. Read more
Time after time, I have come across pianists who cannot read music well and rely on memorization to save them. Do you admire pianists who can just pick up any piece of sheet music and play without stumbling? If you want to take your sight reading to the next level then check out the piano course "Mastering The Art Of Piano Sight Reading!"
Learning To Play Piano As An Adult
March 16, 2010 by Ryan Edward · Leave a Comment
In order to alleviate some of the stress in their lives, more and more people are looking to take up hobbies. For some, they pick up a childhood hobby that always brought them pleasure. Others choose, instead, to learn something new. A hobby growing in popularity, today, is the piano. However, before you go out to buy yourself a baby grand piano, you should know that it takes practice and dedication to master this instrument.
The first thing you will learn is how to sit. Posture is very important when playing the piano. Make certain the bench is at the right height and your shoulders are relaxed with your arms parallel to the floor and your hands resting directly in front of you on the keyboard. Your elbows should be slightly ahead of your body, not tucked at your sides, and your feet should be resting on the floor. You want to have freedom of movement for your arms.
Discipline is also important. Set aside a regular time to practice every day and make certain you won’t be disturbed while you play. Start gradually, with fifteen minutes every day, and work your way up to longer sessions. You will find that, as you practice and get more familiar with the keyboard, your fingers become more flexible and you make fewer mistakes. Even if you can’t do an hour a day, so long as you do at least fifteen minutes your skill will improve.
Go to a music store and pick up several practice books. Even experienced piano players use these books to help improve their skills. not only will they give you exercises to help you learn the piano, they will also help teach you musical theory as well as help you understand chords, tonality and scales and how melodies and harmonies come together to create music.
These books will also contain music for your level of experience. They often have a chapter that explains the purpose behind the exercises, and techniques for you to learn, as well as a sample piece that will help you put everything together into an actual piece of music. Don’t expect to master everything at once. Try practicing each hand separately, at slow speeds, before you bring them together.
Some people will find that playing the piano comes easily to them; others may take longer to learn. Remember, though, that you are practicing the piano for fun. This isn’t a chore and it isn’t a race. Take the time to learn your fundamentals and master your techniques, and you’ll soon find yourself able to play your favorite songs.
A useful tool for many people who play the piano is the metronome. This device can help you keep time, from slow beats to fast ones, and everything in between. Even people who have an innate sense of timing may find themselves surprised at how easy it is to change tempos slightly when playing, especially when you’re enjoying yourself.
The piano is an instrument that has been popular for hundreds of years, and has continued to delight people even today. Just remember to take the time to practice every day, and make certain your hands are limber enough to play the songs you want to play. If you are looking for a great place to start, check out Rocket Piano today!
Play Piano Resources
February 10, 2010 by Ryan Edward · Leave a Comment
If you want to play piano, then you are in luck! Below is a massive list of the Internet’s top piano lessons and resources …
Piano History
Pianos:
- Buying a Keyboard – There are many different questions when it comes to buying a keyboard. How much should I pay, how many keys it needs and so on. A lot of it really depends on the buyer and your own personal preference.
- Caring For a Piano – Practical tips and advice about caring for your piano.
History:
- Jazz Piano History – There are different types of jazz music, each with their own origin and style.
Piano Lessons
Free Lessons:
- Piano Tutorials And Video – Take your piano playing to the next level: Mastering the piano techniques successfully used by professionals.
- Musician Transformation – Discover how you can use ta free chart to easily find and fix your most frustrating problems hindering you from getting to the next level in your gospel playing.
- Hear and Play 705 – Free 34-minute video reveals how to start playing by ear and quickly & easily figuring out the key to any song within minutes.
Adult Lessons:
- Rocket Piano – YOU can learn how to play piano using our FREE LESSONS, step by step instructions, tutorials, jam tracks and famous songs!
- Learn & Master – Is by far the world’s most complete video instruction course for learning recreational piano. It was designed to walk you through from start to finish – even if you’re taking piano lessons for the very first time.
- Piano For All – Imagine being able to sit down at a piano and just PLAY – Pop, Blues, Jazz, Ragtime, Ballads, even incredible Classical pieces? Now you can.. and you can do it in months not years!
Children Lessons:
- Piano Wizard – An amazingly simple video game that can virtually teach anyone how to play REAL piano music in minutes.
- Piano Is Fun – Fun piano software to help children and adult beginners learn to read piano notes.
Piano By Ear Lessons:
- Hear and Play – This course is a 300 page ebook that includes charts, diagrams, notations and techniques. It also comes with a CD-ROM that contains several bonuses.
- Piano System – A massive training package by Nate Bosch – with four DVDs, two play-along CDs, and two professionally printed workbooks.
Jazz Lessons:
- Jazz 101 – In this 2-hour, 2-disc set of step-by-step instruction, you’ll be taken by the hand and shown, step-by-step, how to master TONS of award-winning jazz tips, tricks, and techniques as well as signature soloing secrets that’ll have you sounding like a pro very soon.
- Jazz 201 – In this 5-hour, 4-disc set of practical instruction, you’ll discover how to overcome fear when it comes to improvising and learn what it takes to play runs, licks, and solos with ease.
Gospel Lessons:
- GospelKeys 101 – This dvd course will teach you everything you need to know to get started playing basic hymns and congregational songs.
- GospelKeys 202 – Learn the secrets behind how chords, progressions, and patterns are formed – which means you’ll have what it takes to easily learn new worship songs BY EAR on your own!
- GospelKeys 300 – This dvd course will teach you everything you need to know to play just about any praise song you can think of.
- GospelKeys 500 – In three steps, you’ll learn everything from left-hand bass runs, right-hand fill-ins and chordal movements, “cool-downs,” advanced stride techniques, basic progressions, and much more!
- GospelKeys Master Class – Now you can learn tons of extremely personal secrets from one of the best gospel musicians to ever touch the keyboard… Michael Bereal!
- GospelKeys Ministry Musician – uncover tons of contemporary gospel secrets from one of the baddest gospel musicians in the industry today, Mr. Jason White!
Chord Lessons:
- Power Piano Chords - Who else wants to learn chords for one buck a lesson?
- Hear & Play Chords – Discover how to form various types of chords: major, minor, diminished, augmented and the easy theory behind them. DO NOT BE INTIMIDATED.
- Tritone Xtravaganza – Use these Tritone techniques to take your piano & keyboard playing to new heights.
Urban Lessons:
- GospelKeys Urban Pro 600 – A way to quickly and easily play all the latest contemporary urban chords, progressions, licks, and tricks by ear.
- GospelKeys Urban Pro 625 – Play better than you’ve ever played before in half the time with these 57 phat-sounding, contemporary worship chords.
- Urban Worship Classic – Find out how to make all your worship songs sound contemporary in a matter of minutes …
Christmas Piano Lessons:
- Christmas Keys – A way to sit down at the piano and easily play all your favorite Christmas classics in less than 3 hours – without sheet music!
- Christmas Piano DVD – These 2 DVD’s are chock full of special instructions and techniques – lessons available no where else but here. If you ever wanted to experience the joy of playing Christmas “improv” – everything you’ll need to know is in this step by step course.
Piano Fingering Exercises:
- Hanon Exercises – These are exercises specifically designed to train the pianist in speed, precision, agility, independence, dexterity, and strength of all of the fingers (and wrist too!).
- Hand Coordination Techniques – Accomplished pianist finally breaks the musical code and develops a step-by-step piano lesson and system unleashing the secrets to playing piano with two hands and better hand eye coordination.
Piano Sheet Music:
- Virtual Sheet Music – They currently have a high quality growing digital sheet music archives as well MIDI and Mp3 audio files, which include over 6,500 unique single compositions and collections (over 1,500 items), that are updated regularly.
- Sheet Music Plus – All Piano music, including songbooks, solos, duets, play alongs and methods at Sheet Music Plus.
Organ Lessons:
- GospelKeys Organ Collection – A step-by-step way to quickly and easily master praise & devotional songs, worship chords, and shouting music… ALL on the organ!
Ear Training Software:
- PITCH Ear-Training Software – A learning tool that drills you on notes, scales, chords, intervals, and even allows you to sing and mimic what you hear (using the microphone on your computer or a USB headset mic).
- Pitch Master Pro – Utilizes your brain’s natural ability to recall bits of information in quick succession. With this unique approach you will be able to memorize notes, intervals, chords, and scales extremely fast!
Piano Tuning & Repair:
- Concert Pitch Piano Services – Piano/Keyboard/Organ Appraisals, Piano Price Lists, Piano Age Lookup And More.
- Professional Piano Tuning Kit – This kit includes all of the tools that you will need to properly tune your piano.
- Piano Tuning, Repair & Rebuilding – This is the complete course in professional piano tuning, repairing and rebuilding.
Further Piano Resources:
- Teach Piano – This book it includes all the tips, tricks and techniques you’ll need to set up your piano teaching business, starting today!
- American Pianists Association – If you develop your talent to a professional degree, you might want to contact this organization. It is dedicated to promoting the careers of concert-level classical and jazz
pianists around the nation, between the ages of 18 and 30. - Music Teachers National Association – This association is for certified music teachers and teachers who wish to become certified. If you are looking for a certified piano teacher in your area, the association has a teacher finder that you can use to search their database.
Written Piano Music And Rhythm
January 7, 2010 by Ryan Edward · Leave a Comment
Do you play piano? If so, do you know about rhythm? If you do, you know that you can improvise with rhythm as long as you are somewhat expert at playing the piano. It’s the same with singing. Singing, too, can be improvised simply by holding some notes out longer and making others shorter — and no one has to tell you how to do it. You just know how.
To learn a song you don’t know yet, it’s useful to use written music and play it as written first so that you understand the rhythm. If you’re playing in an ensemble or group and the group is playing from sheet music, you’ll do better if you play from sheet music as well because you will stay in time with them.
The first thing you learn about rhythm is the time signature. The time signature is directly to the right of the treble and bass clefs on a music staff. If the time signature changes while the piece is in progress, the composer puts a different time signature at that point where the rhythm is about to change. Read more
The Lines and the Spaces in Piano Music
January 2, 2010 by Ryan Edward · Leave a Comment
Your first experience with playing music from written notations will come as soon as you learn the notes. The first thing you have to do is to learn about the lines and the spaces of the staffs. On the diagram below, the notes used are all quarter notes. That refers to the rhythm of the notes which will be discussed later. The purpose of this diagram is to show you the notes as they are positioned on the staff.
If you look just at the actual lines of the staff, you will see that they are, going up, E-G-B-D-F. Some people remember this with little sayings, like “Every Good Boy Does Fine.” There are memory tricks for all the lines and spaces on both staffs. For the spaces of the treble clef, you will notice that the letters of the notes spell F-A-C-E.
Now, you can relate the notes on the page to the keys on the keyboard. Remember where the middle C is? The C on the left of the diagram above depicts middle C. The middle C is shown on an added line below the treble clef or above the bass clef. Using middle C as a reference point and your new knowledge of the letters that go with the notes, try to look at each note and then play the key it refers to.
Take the music you have at hand, and try to pick out a few notes on the piano from the treble clef. You might even be able to play a melody line by using this method. This will only get you started. However, every time you can have the satisfying experience of playing music, you should take it. The feeling will carry you on to want to learn more. Read more
Learn Piano Chords
December 29, 2009 by Ryan Edward · Leave a Comment
What if you could pop a CD into your home or car stereo and learn everything you needed to know to start playing beautiful chords on the piano?
I’m talking about all the same chords used to play practically every popular song out there!
The ones you grew up listening to… the songs you now enjoy… classic holiday tunes… even your kids’ favorite songs… and more!
What if you could learn all the chords that make up those songs in just an hour or so? Would you be excited?
Well… You should be!
Because Jermaine, over at Hear and Play Chords is going to reveal an approach that allows you to learn anywhere: at your piano, in your car, on your iPod while at the gym — ANYWHERE!
So, if you have a CD player and two hours to spare, then you have what it takes to start mastering chords by ear. There are over 20 minutes of audio lesson clips at the website.
You’ll definitely find this new resource very beneficial, especially if you’re struggling to grasp the concepts of chords! Believe it or not, once you master chords, half of the battle is won because songs are created ALL BY CHORDS!
Rush on over to Hear and Play Chords and read his entire report. Step-by-step, you will learn:
- How to form various types of chords: major, minor, diminished, augmented and the easy theory behind them. DO NOT BE INTIMIDATED.
- The classes of chords and the difference between triads, sevenths, ninths, elevenths, thirteenths… all broken down in “normal,” down-to-earth, language.
- One magic formula that creates all the chords you’ll ever need to know. All I’ll tell you is that it involves two words: Quality & Quantity (and you need both in order to create all chords).
- How to form any major scale in seconds using my “Why Won’t He Wear White When Hot” trick.
- Easy ways to understand intervals (which are merely distances between notes). There are melodic intervals and harmonic intervals and you’ll learn both.
- The secret behind the “number system” and how to use it to learn practically any chord out there. I’ll prove it to you with 7 practical
examples.
So I highly recommend that you go over and visit Hear and Play Chords. Don’t forget to check out the 20+ minutes of audio lessons! You’ll be glad you did.
Gospel Piano Lessons With Jason White!
December 28, 2009 by Ryan Edward · Leave a Comment
What if you could lock yourself in a room and get 4.5 hours of ministry-focused instruction from the man behind many of your favorite gospel albums?
Would that excite you?
Well, you’re definitely in luck! Because I’ve found a resource that will uncover tons of contemporary gospel secrets from one of the baddest gospel musicians in the industry today, Mr. Jason White!
You’ll get the opportunity to learn flavorful approaches, chords, movements, patterns, “licks & tricks,” and real songs from Jason White, but not only that…
You’ll learn the music ministry side of things too. This isn’t just for someone who wants to steal a bunch of chords and sound good, although you’ll get dozens upon dozens of chords and will certainly sound 10 times better after devouring this course. This is deeper than that though.
This is for the musician who truly wants to be used by God to usher in His presence through music. The musician who no longer wants to be a distraction or hindrance to the service but actually be an integral part of the worship experience.
Jason is ready to show you what he’s picked up over the years as he’s had the privilege to walk closely with prominent pastors like Bishop Charles Blake.
This is a holistic course focusing both on the creative music side and the ministry side. You will not go wrong with it.
Brief description of each disc below:
Disc 1: Get an in-depth look at how to play hymns in a contemporary way without sacrificing the melody. From “To God Be The Glory,” to “Oh How I Love Jesus,” you’ll learn Jason White’s way of flipping these hymns, chord by chord!
Disc 2: In the second part of this course, you’ll learn what Jason White calls “church bebop” and the “old school shuffle.” Both of these styles are found in tons of choir songs, praise songs, and devotional music like “I’m On the Battlefield.”
Disc 3: The third part of the course is all about praise and worship. You’ll learn dozens of contemporary chords to play during this part of the service and how to alter the atmosphere of the church by choosing your chords and progressions carefully.
Disc 4: The last part of the course covers shouting music. From traditional patterns to modern routes, you’ll learn insider secrets behind Jason White’s shouting style! Chords, licks, fill-ins, basslines, runs, and more!
For more information about Jason White’s course, CLICK HERE now…
God bless.
Piano Sight Reading Lessons
December 28, 2009 by Ryan Edward · Leave a Comment
Music is a universal language. In order to master any language, one needs to learn the reading and speaking skills of that language.
A piano player who is proficient in playing by ear but has limited ability in reading music is actually considered musically illiterate.
Similarly, a pianist who is a strong sight reader but cannot improvise, lacking the ability to make beautiful music, is also considered musically illiterate.
Time after time, I have come across pianists who cannot read music well and rely on memorization to save them. Do you admire pianists who can just pick up any piece of sheet music and play without stumbling?
If you want to take your sight reading to the next level, I have great news for you!
A special friend of mine, Yoke Wong, is an accomplished pianist and music educator. She has compiled a comprehensive home study course called, Mastering The Art Of Piano Sight Reading to help piano students master the art of music reading. I generally do not promote other courses, but this one is unique and deserves your attention. Since I am very aware of the value and importance of music reading, I also recognize the value of this course. It can really make a significant difference in your piano playing.
If you seriously want to upgrade your skills, I urge you to get this DVD home study course by clicking here now.
She even put in a valuable bonus with the course – an additional 90 minutes of advanced piano sight reading instructional DVD (limited quantity). Be sure to grab your copy before the bonus is gone!
Your feedback is very important in helping us evaluate how the course has made an impact on your piano playing world. I would love to hear from you once you have tried it out!
Thanks for your response!
Free Piano Lesson: Learn to Play Greensleeves
December 13, 2009 by Ryan Edward · Leave a Comment
Here are a couple free video piano lessons on playing Greensleeves using left hand arrangement techniques and tremolo. The lessons are brought to you by a special friend of mine, Yoke Wong, who is an accomplished pianist and music educator.
Part #1:
Part #2:
If you enjoy these free piano lessons then you can learn more about Yoke and her additional piano lessons by visiting her website at PlayPianoTips.com.
Learning To Play Piano Can Be A Positive Experience!
October 19, 2009 by Ryan Edward · Leave a Comment
* This is a guest post by Jesse Fisher of Piano Wizard! If you would like to submit a guest post for consideration of publication to our site, please contact us.
Exciting video game software which actually imparts skills for use in the real world is not easy to find — especially in the area of music instruction. Computer software games are a huge and burgeoning industry because kids are completely enthralled by them.
Why not harness the attention-focusing power of computer games by integrating piano instruction software with a fun, interactive gaming engine? Read more
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