It’s Friday everyone!!!  I’ve got a couple of tutorials uploading beginning around 5PM E.T. tonight.  Then a few more a few days later.  I’m also recording some more songs to post the audio mp3s on here for you to enjoy.  To all of the girls who requested a tutorial of “Only Hope,” by Mandy Moore, you wish will be coming true as well.  I also received a few requests for Snoop’s “Sensual Seduction”…(edited version).  I’ve heard it on the radio a few times - pretty sweet song - giving that one  a try as well.  The rest you will just have to wait and find out. 

I received an E-mail a few weeks back from a guy who wanted to learn Canon in D.   If you don’t already know, that is a popular song to play at a wedding during the aisle walk.  I’ve given it a shot from the Lee Galloway version.  He has made his own rendition (twist) to the original, and it sounds pretty good.  I’m learning that version.  Basically, I have about 8 songs that I’m learning separately almost all at once…never really done it like this before.

I don’t believe that this is crucial when learning a song from sheet music. Dots and tie notes influence a notes count, but it is very difficult to tell a real difference when playing. Of course, a professional piano player must know everything when it comes to the sheets.

The minor scales (plural) take just a bit longer to learn than the major scale, mostly because there is more than one. Notice that in the key of A minor in the demonstration below, all of the keys are white. Remember in C major all of the keys are white. This is because of how the whole and half steps are setup. The major scale has a WWH, WWWH interval system. (W=whole; H=half) You will see the differences in the minor scales.