D major scale has two sharps - C# and F#. (These two sharps are played instead of C and F respectively.)
Here is a model of the keyboard with the main keys used to play the song.
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Saturday, 9 July 2011
Today's Piano Lesson is Yankee Doodle. This is a great lesson for beginners who are learning to play the piano.
Today's piano lesson is "Yankee Doodle". This piece is done in the key of D major. Practice the D Major scale first before playing the song. If you don't know how to play the D Major scale click here.
D major scale has two sharps - C# and F#. (These two sharps are played instead of C and F respectively.)
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D major scale has two sharps - C# and F#. (These two sharps are played instead of C and F respectively.)
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Today's Extra Piano Lesson. Learn to Play Titanic on the Piano (My Heart Will Go on Piano)
Today I want to share a piano lesson from youtube that you will enjoy playing. Just to let you know that there are many piano lessons on youtube for beginners. When you are learning to play a musical instrument it is very important that you seek as many resources as you can. Learn to play anything within your level and then try to play more complicated pieces. Surprize your music teacher by showing off a song that you have learnt by yourself.
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Even though this video might have some controversial "keyboard lettering" in the foot notes, please use what was taught in our keyboard lessons. Click here for the letters of the black and white keys on the keyboard.
PLEASE NOTE: The illustration in this tutorial shows the letter "H" has a key on the keyboard. Please play the the letter "B" for "H".
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Sunday, 3 July 2011
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Saturday, 2 July 2011
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Free Music Piano/Keyboard Lesson: An effective way to learn the keys on the keyboard.
Knowing all the keys on the piano or keyboard is very important to beginners playing the piano. You will be more effective when playing both old and new songs whether it is playing by ear or reading sheet music.
Today I want to share a simple melody that I have use when teaching my students the keys on the keyboard. Most time after you have taught your students the letters of both white and black keys on the keyboard, you might want to give them something to re-enforce what was taught. Well this method works well.
The very first song that I have always used in my piano/keyboard class is “Mary Had a Little Lamb”. Even though it is a simple song, it is a great piece to use when teaching the letter names of the keyboard.
How did I do it? I allow my students to play the song at different locations on the keyboard. Therefore, they will be able to play a simple song at different starting point on the keyboard.
Remember, my objectives are to:
1) teach my students the keys on the keyboard.
2) Re-enforce what was taught (the letters of the keyboard).
When playing the song “Mary Had a Little Lamb”, it allows students to know the keys on the keyboard in forward and backward motion.
Here are five different melodies of “Mary Had a Little Lamb”. Each melody starts on different keys of the keyboard. After you have played all the melodies below you will find out that you have touch all the letters assigned to the keys on the keyboard.
GIVE IT A TRY NOW!!
After playing "Mary Had a little Lamb" in different keys on the keyboard. I teach them other simple melodies using the same techniques.
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011
ELEMENTS IN MUSIC - What is Melody?
What is Melody?
Melody is a series of notes that are place at different pitch creating a tune. When you hear a saxophone playing “Amazing Grace” you will recognize the song because of the tune or melody. A good melody has a beginning, development and an ending. Some important aspects of melody are tonality (the key of the music), intervals, phrasing, articulation and cadence.
A melody is created when notes are assigned one after the other creating movements called intervals. An interval is the distance in pitch between two notes. For example, when an individual sings the major scale (doh, ra, me, fa, soh, lah, te, doh), they are singing from one interval to the next. In other words, “doh” to “ra” and “me” to “fa” are intervals.
In the melody of a song, the distance between some notes can be small while there may be other notes in the song that have a larger distance between them. The smaller distance or intervals are called steps while the larger intervals are called leaps.
Steps are notes that falls immediately next to each other according to pitch. A perfect example of steps are (doh, ra, me, fa, so). Notice that each note falls adjacent to each other (naturally come right after each other in music).
Leaps are any interval larger than a step. For example, (doh, me, so). You should notice that “ra” and “fa” are skipped out of the melody. So therefore, when you move from note to another skipping out one or more tones (notes) it is called a leap.
There are several songs with steps, but one popular song that is dominated by steps is “Mary had a Little Lamb”.
The notes used for “Mary had a Little Lamb” are naturally beside each other in the musical alphabet.
(When you move from C to D and D to E you are moving in steps)
There are lots of songs that have leaps in them, however you hardly find songs that is composed with only leaps as the melody. But the song “Amazing Grace” has a number of leaps in it. Look at some parts of the melody for a better understanding.
(A number of letters are skipped out in this song, hence forming leaps. Example G to C, E to C and D to high G)
Even though the concept of melody as an element of music is very wide, one can say that melody is a combination of both steps and leaps used at different pitches. And so the way in which we use steps and leaps are very important in musical composition.
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Monday, 27 June 2011
BUJU BANTON - UNTOLD STORY - BUJU BANTON GETS 10 YEARS IN PRISON.
Buju Banton’s song “It’s not an easy road” rings in the minds of is fans both in Jamaica and aboard. But looking at the situation he is in, one could say that he is singing his own song to himself today.
It has not been an easy road for Buju Banton over the pass two years. Buju Banton one of Jamaica’s greatest reggae artiste was busted by an informant working under cover for the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2009. Since then, Buju Banton has been on trial for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and the possession of a fire arm.
After the long wait, Judge James Moody read the verdict on June 23, 2011. Buju Banton was sentenced to 10 years in a United States federal prison for his conviction for conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine. Even though Buju Banton is now in prison, only he can tell the real untold story to a number of his fans around the world but his mistakes cost him consequences.
Ten years in prison is a very long time for a musician and artiste. The great stage shows will be missed and he will be missing the greatest reggae show on earth “Reggae Sumfest”. One would wonder and ask these questions; “What will Buju Banton be doing while he is locked away in prison? Will he be able to create some unique musical single like Jah Cure?
Well all will have to wait and see. In ten years time more reggae artiste will be on the local and international seen and so he has a lot of work to do to keep up to date with the music industry. The true is, after ten years he will have to do a lot of work to maintain his reggae status in Jamaica and the rest of the world.
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Buju Banton was born Mark Anthony Myrie on July 15, 1973, at Salt Lane in Kingston. He started his musical career during the late 1980s and attracts the attention of many Jamaican’s with his deep voice and unique performance style. During the 1990s Buju Banton’s musical career started to grew rapidly with the release of many great singles.
Some of his hits in the 1990s were;
Article by: Carlinton Singh
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