Month: February, 2008

Digital Pianos, Keyboards and Acoustic Pianos

29 February, 2008 (03:40) | Piano

I’ve talked about our digital piano before. It’s a Kawai and I absolutely love it. I love the sound it gives and the feel is better than so many acoustic uprights I’ve played. When I have students start out at piano one of the questions I get very often is about what [...]

Good Online Music Theory Lessons, Practice and Utilities

22 February, 2008 (03:08) | Links, Music Theory

MusicTheory.net is an excellent resource for the beginner, intermediate or even more advanced student of music. The site is run by Ricci Adams and there’s even a downloadable offline version of the site. The exercises and lessons are all flash based, so as long as you have a flash enabled browser you should [...]

Preparing for Practice

15 February, 2008 (03:52) | Practice

When your 8 years old there’s a whole different set of things on your mind than when your 25 or 35 or 85. When we’re young, sitting down to practice if we enjoy what we’re doing is as easy as turning off the homework we might not have been as eager to get to [...]

The Long Term Power of Regular Practice

8 February, 2008 (08:59) | Music Lessons, Piano Lessons, Practice, Site Info

It’s been quoted many times that a journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step. When you think of many of the things we do in life it can be overwhelming to consider the enormity of what is needed to be done. To shrink the quote above a bit, let’s say [...]

Three Chord Songs

1 February, 2008 (08:16) | Music Theory, Three Chord Songs

Two and Three chord songs can be a good, easy way for people to practice and play with the idea of playing by ear. In any given major key, there are three chords that are most common. In music theory notation we use roman numerals to identify these I, IV, V (one, four [...]