By Jessica Josh The days of the private music teacher charging $50 or more an hour are long gone. Now you can fall back on non-human tutors, i.e. your handy smartphone or tablet, to learn music—for a fraction of the cost. Hot on the heels of […]
Third part in a piano video tutorial series on the song ‘New Day’. This lesson focuses on the distinctive melody leading into the first verse using the right hand and the downwards left hand chord progression.
Second part in a piano video tutorial series on the song ‘New Day’. This lesson looks at the opening melody using the right hand and the accompanying left hand chords.
Basic instroduction to Jazz/Blues chord progression using the key of C major
*Firstly, if you don’t have Quicktime it is recommended that you download it to hear the audio in this post. A well known jazz musician once said, “jazz can be taught in just three lessons; 1st lesson: practice for 10 years; 2nd lesson: practice and perform for 10 years; 3rd […]
By Chris Lake Once you start to move away from rhythm guitar and into playing lead, you will no doubt come across the term ‘legato’, but do you know what this means? The literal meaning of legato is ‘tied together’ but in musical terms it means that you should […]
By Andrea D. Vacchiano Learning to play piano online takes time, effort, self-discipline, and some experimentation, but the rewards can be great. It is an increasingly popular and accessible method of self-study. How much time you dedicate to the piano really depends on you. Your initial efforts will be spent […]
One of the most obvious but easily overlooked songwriting devices is the use of contrast. Most successful songs incorporate this technique and once you are familiar with the various ways in which you can achieve contrast, you can begin to incorporate it into your own songwriting. The purpose of contrast […]
By Colin Forrester You see it. Standing there on its own begging to be played. Maybe someone is playing it to a half-decent level and you feel you could do something similar but you talk yourself out if it. You’re ‘not confident‘/don’t have the time/don’t want to cause a scene/be […]
1. MusicDrop and BoxyTunes Ok, these are Two apps but crucially, both have the same aim – to turn online storage service DropBox into a fully functioning cloud music service. Both MusicDrop and BoxyTunes stream music from your DropBox account, pulling in cover artwork and other information. They will increasingly […]
This post includes audio which might require installation depending on your browser Perfect Fourths Perfect Fifths Major 6ths Minor 6ths Major 7ths Minor 7ths Octaves
By Gavin Peterson You have no personality (either this or you’re still using the equipment in the above picture) That’s what the stations you’ve applied to might be thinking if you’ve tried and failed before to get that first job. It’s all about YOU selling yourself and THEM (the station). […]
I’ve unsurprisingly had a number of respondents to my post ‘why smart work is overrated‘, lining up to criticise me for being negative instead of being encouraging. Well let me respond that I felt I had to speak out in light of what I saw. Anyway another thing that’s got […]
For this blog post, it would be useful to print it off or copy and paste into a document like Microsoft Word before printing. The following in paper format will make more sense to you as you’re sat at the piano/keyboard, rather than a computer screen. This post also assumes […]
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