“Yankee Doodle” is a popular British Song. It originated in a pre-Revolutionary War period. This well-known song is often sung patriotically today in America, and it is the state anthem Read the rest of this entry »
Skip to My Lou
Skip to My Lou is one of popular songs for children. It was a song during America’s frontier period. “Lou” means “love” in Scottish.
Listen to Skip to My Lou here.
Download free sheet music for Skip to My Lou here.
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Camptown Races
Published in 1850, “Camptown Races” was written by a famous American song writer, Stephen Foster. Camptown Races also known as “De Camptown Races”, its orginal title was “Gwine to Run All Night”.
“Camptown” refers to various temporary camp towns set up in different locations in the U.S. where the railroad workers were populated. There were horse racing in the camptown tracks which provided fun and entertainment.
Listen to Camptown Races here.
Down free sheet music Camptown Races.
Piano Technique for Beginners
Piano technique is how piano players physically execute their performance. A good way to improve your technique is to perform finger exercises.
You will be learning some finger exercises that are really fun to play and also fun to listen to. These exercises will also improve your finger strength and flexibility. Below is a list of the finger exercises that you will be learning. A detailed description of each lesson is listed below.
In this lesson, you will be playing only the black key notes. Playing just the black keys is an easy way to play the 5-note Pentatonic scale. The Pentatonic scale creates a mood that may remind you of songs from East Asia.
In this lesson, you will be learning about a series of notes that will create a mood that is strange and mysterious. The series of note you will see make up the whole tone scale. The whole tone scale is a 6-note scale. It is called the whole tone scale because every note in the scale is separated by an interval of one whole step.
In this lesson, you will be playing arpeggios. Arpeggios are just chords that are played one note at a time instead of together. You will be playing arpeggios with the C major chord.
After you have learned the basic skills in these lessons, access our Virtual Piano Keyboard (if you do not own a piano or piano keyboard) to practice the first two techniques. View additional piano technique
Minuet in G
A German composer and organist, Johann Sebastian Bach was taught by his father to play violin at a young age. His father was a director of the town musicians, and one of his uncles was very well-known as well who taught him to play organ.
When his parents passed away in 1694, Read the rest of this entry »
Free Online Ear Training Tools
This section provides you with fun and helpful music training tools. Try all of them out to help you with ear training and music theory concepts. These tools will really help to reinforce what you have learned in the piano “Lessons Section”.
Each of the training tools also keep scores to help determine how well you understand the music concepts.
Music Theory
Music Theory for Beginners
Music theory is the explanation of the ideas behind the music and how it is put together. You will understand what you are playing if you have a good foundation of music theory. With the good foundation in music theory, it will help to make the improvisation and composing of music much easier. You will be able to improvise versions of your favorite songs and play without sheet music. Below are five mini lessons which introduce you to basic music theory:
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Jay Chou - Live Piano Battle
One of the most talented musicians, Jay Chou, is also a model, actor, singer, composer, and producer. Jay was in a talent contest when he was discovered, and was later hired to compose songs for popular Chinese artists for the following two years. Jay released his first album, “Jay”, in 2000. Read the rest of this entry »
How To Play Silent Night
Let’s Play Silent Night
Below is an animation of the right hand melody and left hand chords for Silent Night. First, try and play just the right hand melody. Second, try and play just the left hand chords. Finally, play both the right hand melody and the left hand chords together.
