This post specifically applies to a popular song, or at least one that already has a recording. To me, practicing a song is fairly boring, tiresome, and very frustrating. 
I remember when I was learning “It Ends Tonight” by The All-American Rejects. I came close to giving up on that song, but there was something that gave me a little extra enthusiasm. Read the rest of this entry »
Sheet music is a wonderful tool in helping us learn our favorite songs. But it is important to use it to learn the song so that the you do not rely on it to play. When you “learn” a song, you should be able to play it wherever you are even when
you don’t have the sheet music at hand. When beginning a song, look at the sheet music and start with the first few bars. This is the hard part-most of us are glued to looking at the sheets at least 80% of the time and not looking at our hands. The misconception is that good piano players can play without looking at their hands. But this does not apply when practicing. Read the rest of this entry »
I am proud to help you learn the twelve major scales! What exactly is a scale? Well, think of one of your favorite songs-if you try to play it on the piano, there are some notes that sound horrible and don’t fit!…because they are not apart of that songs “key” or scale. There are certain notes that can flow together and others that are just out of place. You probably already know the C major scale. They are all of the white keys!
Turn your speakers up! The following flash program is an excellent tool to help train your ears! A series of two notes will be played one by one. You are trying to figure out the distance between the two notes. You will not know the exact notes of the keys that are being played, but that is not important with this exercise. The intervals between the played notes are important. Read the rest of this entry »
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