Have you ever listened and watched an extremely inspiring performance that you were so touched by it, then came with a strong desire of Really Wanting to Do the Same? Well, I guess you can tell I am that kind of hot blood animal who immediately feel very excited in thinking of starting to play or speed learn that song in piano right away. That actually happended while I was hearing Yundi Li played the La Campanella, composed by Franz Liszt in few yrs ago. I was a college student majoring in architecture & urban design who actually have no music or music instrumental background for me to have any advantage in learning to play an extraodinary piece of piano music. However, because of my strong desire to play that song, I decided to take a basic piano class in my following college semester, and quickly I were able to perform some basic movements on piano with both hands, and I was also being able to play with rhythm and a longer little song after few months. But anyway, the songs that were chosen by my professor for me to play weren't sound great that would motivate me to play, and I also was being so busy with my other projects + part time job, which I could imagine if I have followed this tradition learning path, which is still out there now for 99% of the piano teaching programs, it will take me more than 10 years just to get a chance to start learning something CLOSE to the level of song that I want to play, and more over, I probably would have more frustration that ...
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Daniel Erickson plays a piece on the classical piano. Quite delightful.
Awesome french blues piano player in the street in Aix-en-Pce. Young french player settles and plays an awesome improv piece of blues on a disposable Steinway.
makingmusicfun.net - Get the free printable MMF! All-in-One Beginner Piano Course | Free eBook at MakingMusicFun.net Video Lesson Transcript: Hey there! This lesson will teach you how to play 'Tick Tock' - the fifth piece in the MMF! All-In-One Beginner Piano Book. You can download the book for free from the www.MakingMusicFun.net website. The link to this book is located just below this video. Let's get started. Tick Tock introduces the musical term Stacatto. If a dot appears above or below a note, it should be play short. Tick Tock also is your first chance to play the piano with the right and the left hand. Measures 1-4 are played with the right hand, and measures 5-8 are played with the left hand. The first two measures are made up of eight quarter notes. Quarter notes get one beat. The notes are CGDGCGDG. They are played with fingers 1-5-2-5-1-5-2-5. Measures 1-2 sound like this. Let's try it together. Let's try measures 3 and 4. The notes are CDECD. The last note is a whole note. It gets four beats. When I play the whole note I will say "hold-that-whole-note". Using this phrase will help you to perform this rhythm correctly. Measures 3-4 sound like this. Let's try it together. Measures 5-6 are exactly the same as measures 1-2, except the notes are in the bass clef. The notes are CGDGCGDG. They are played with fingers 5-1-4-1-5-1-4-1. Measures 5-6 sound like this. Let's try it together. Measures 7-8 are similar to measures 3-4. The notes are CDEDC. They are played ...
It is very important for every pianist, from beginning student to advanced performer, to sit properly at the piano to avoid injury and enjoy fluency and ease of movement. This video covers pretty much everything you need to know but were afraid to ask 