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If you look carefully enough at printed music, you will often see dots all over the place. While those dots do look random, they are most certainly not. Every dot on every piece of music has meaning. The dots that are situated near a note can be confusing to some learning to read music. If … Read more
A tie, a slur and a phrase all look quite similar and sometimes they can get confused with each other since they look like this: This symbol is typically used above the stave (staff) or inverted and used underneath the stave (staff), depending on which direction the stems of the notes are going. This applies … Read more
I first came across Tonebass Piano on Facebook. I was not looking for anything in particular, it just showed up as short videos that I might want to watch – you know how Facebook works, it puts articles and videos on your feed, that its algorithms think you might like. It was a video about … Read more
The piano, together with the organ and harp are unique musical instruments in the sense that each hand can play notes independently of the other hand. If you think about stringed instruments such as guitar and violin, the left hand usually determines what note or notes are played while the right hand determines the quality … Read more
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The words ‘trust me’ I think invoke suspicion rather than confidence on the internet and with good reason – there are so many people that discuss topics on which they have absolutely no information on. All they have is uninformed opinion being claimed as fact. I think a bit of skepticism is a good thing … Read more
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