Where Piano Playing Retirees Get Information and Encouragement
Enharmonic Equivalents are one of those music terms that sound complex but aren’t actually complex at all. Basically enharmonic equivalents are where the one note can have more than one name. Sometimes when I am explaining this to a piano student of mine and they have a puzzled look on their face, I use the … Read more
I know it seems like I don’t like online piano courses and the truth is that because I have not looked at any of them in depth, any opinion I have at this stage is completely irrelevant. However, I often object to the way these online piano courses word their advertisements. One aspect I really … Read more
Learning to play the piano is wonderful and there can be many, many hours of pleasure from playing the piano. This is especially true for people who have waited years or even decades to take piano lessons, who find piano lessons particularly enjoyable because they have had to wait for so long. But what happens … Read more
When someone learns to read music, they soon learn about rests. Rests indicate when a person is not playing their instrument, or in the case of the piano, when one hand or both hands are not playing any notes at all. The effect is moments or periods of silence. For some people, the concept of … Read more
Before I really get started, I feel its important to state that I have no legal background whatsoever and that there is no consensus internationally about how much time needs to elapse before an artistic work can be considered out of copyright. Just like with many other things on the internet, there are free versions … Read more
Years ago I joined a choir, just for a bit of fun and the choir that I joined was focused on quite a lot of jazz or jazz influenced music. One evening I was talking to the woman who helped run the choir and we were discussing a very specific point in one piece we … Read more
As I have mentioned in other articles, I get quite a bit of advertising for online piano courses and most of them are similar, not just in their methodology but also in their advertising blurbs. One claim that is common is that you don’t need to learn music theory in order to play the piano … Read more