How To Play Piano - Music Theory Academy: Recent Episodes
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Beginner Piano Lesson 1 It’s so exciting that you want to learn how to play the piano. The piano is a fantastic instrument – you can play a huge range of music in lots of different styles. I am sure that you will find my online piano lessons helpful. In this first online piano lesson I am going to: Introduce you to the piano Help you understand how to read music for the piano Teach you how to play your first piece with a backing track! Introducing the Piano Keyboard So, first of all, let’s have a look at a
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Beginner Piano Lesson 2 In Beginner Piano Lesson 1 we had an introduction to the piano, looked at how to find Middle C (2 black notes, etc..), learned how to read some basic music in Treble Clef and you played your first piece using your right hand. In this lesson we are going to: Play a piece with your left hand Learn to Read Bass Clef Introducing the Left Hand One of the great things about the piano is that you can play lots of notes at the same time because you can play the keys with both hands. This
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Beginner Piano Lesson 3 In Beginner Piano Lesson 2 you learnt how to play some notes using your left hand, whilst reading Bass Clef. In this lesson you are going to: Play a faster piece with more notes Learn how and when to change the volume of your playing In this lesson we are going to jump straight into learning the piece. Let’s have a look at the sheet music score: Now, the approach we need to take to this piece is exactly the same as in the 1st 2 lessons: Have a look at the time signature at the
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Beginner Piano Lesson 4 In Beginner Piano Lesson 3 we looked at how to play faster notes and how to change the volume of our playing. In this Beginner Piano Lesson No. 4, we are going to have a go at another left hand piece, which will help you do the following: Read and play eighth notes (quavers) Play smoothly Let’s have a look at the piece: Have a look at the sheet music. Remember to look at the tempo marking (how fast it should be played) and the dynamic marking (volume). This is how the piece should sound: Play
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Beginner Piano Lesson 5 In Beginner Piano Lesson 4 we looked at improving your left hand playing by learning how to read and play eighth notes and working on playing smoothly. In this Beginner Piano Lesson No. 5 we are going to learn how to: Play a piece with 3 beats in a bar Play more extended leaps Playing a Piece with 3 beats in a bar In each of the previous 4 lessons the time signature of the piece has been 4 beats in every bar. In this lesson we are going to mix things up a bit by
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In this final lesson of my beginner piano course we are going to look at how to play piano music that combines both the right hand and the left hand. This builds on the piano playing techniques we have learnt in the previous 5 lessons. In this lesson we are going to look at: How to play piano with two hands playing separately How to play a piano piece with both hands playing at the same time Learning how to play piano with both hands is a big step up, but is very much achievable if you follow some simple
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