If you’re just starting out on the piano, this article is for you! Maybe you just bought a new keyboard. Maybe you have owned a piano for some time. Maybe you just never had the time to learn the note names of the ebonies and ivories underneath its lid. Maybe, you’re ready to start learning … Continue reading Should you label your piano keyboard ?
Recently, we released the exciting new course “Chords and Scales” to add a different dimension to our ever-expanding courses. With this course, you will learn how to accompany many songs with piano chords and even improvise and create your own music using beautifully sounding scales. So, what are piano Chords and Scales? Before you venture … Continue reading How to understand piano Chords and Scales
Used to be that if you wanted to learn to play the piano, you’d sign up with a local piano teacher for weekly lessons and start a lengthy process of learning from boring beginner books interspersed with drilling scales. It often took a long time to get to the point where you could play a … Continue reading Best Piano App in 2020
Many people ‘wish’ they could play the piano. Many people start, then other factors get in the way. Some people achieve their goals. If every new pianist knew how to make piano practice fun, all of the time, every learner would fulfil their musical ambitions. This article covers all you need to enable better understanding … Continue reading How to Make Piano Practice Fun
Last Updated on June 18, 2020 by Klaus Crow We all have tons of excuses to justify the times we don’t practice. We need to work, maintain our relationships, play with our kids, finish up tasks, exercise, eat and sleep. How in the world is there any time left? How can you improve your skills … Continue reading Improve Your Guitar Skills Anywhere and Anytime
Last Updated on May 30, 2020 by Klaus Crow Rock guitar has an irresistible attractive force to guitar players . The dopamine that releases from strumming power chords that are heavily distorted or conquering a great rock solo while playing it along with the original song, a jam track or with a real band gives … Continue reading 10 Essentials to Learn Rock Guitar
Last Updated on May 7, 2020 by Klaus Crow Today I have a great list of songs for learning and improving your bar chords. I’ll also show you how to apply bar chords to a song. Once you have practiced open chords and spent some fair amount of time learning beginner songs you are ready … Continue reading Bar Chord Songs for Beginners and Intermediate
Last Updated on April 17, 2020 by Klaus Crow The Min7 chord is a beautiful way to enhance the minor chord. It gives it some extra colour and depth. It sounds kind of contemplative and a bit more sophisticated than your standard minor chord. It’s a graceful chord. The minor 7th chord is used widely … Continue reading How to Play The Many Graceful Minor 7 Chords
Last Updated on March 25, 2020 by Klaus Crow I hope you are doing okay with everything that is going on now. These are crazy times, but we have to make the best of it. We have to help each other out while keeping a safe distance, be considerate of others, smile to people to relieve … Continue reading 3rds Intervals over 5 Major Scale Shapes/Positions
Last Updated on March 14, 2020 by Klaus Crow Growin’ up as a kid my oldest brother played me the records of the Rolling Stones, John Mellencamp, John Hiatt, Stevie Ray Vaughan and many other great musicians. I am forever grateful he did. He showed me a world I would indulge in every minute of … Continue reading Top 30 Best Rolling Stones Songs for Guitar
