Acoustic Piano Play

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-Proper Hand Posture In the last lesson I discussed the proper posture for sitting at the piano. In this lesson I am going to go over the proper hand posture for playing the piano. If you play for any extended amount of time, having the proper hand posture not only insures that you are playing the instrument properly, but helps to reduce fatigue.

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-Name That Key On Piano Today we are going to play name that key. Well, we aren't really going to play a game, but I want to teach you how to figure out a key if you hear the song on the radio. Humming along with the song will help you find notes, but how do you find the key?

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-Learn To Play Piano When you are beginning a new task or learning something new it is always best to have a starting point. In this lesson you are given a starting point on the piano. That starting point is Middle C. From there we go up the keyboard using the white keys and make a C Major Scale. From the notes in that scale we are able to build chords. The chords we build are called triads or 3-note chords.

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-Jazz 2-5-1 Chord Progression The 2-5-1 chord progression is a famous chord progression used primarily in jazz music. But what do I mean by 2-5-1 chord progression? Well, lets use the key of C as our starting example. The 2 chord is based on the second note of the scale, so in the key of C the 2 chord is a D. For the 2-5-1 progression popularized by jaxx, we are going to use a D minor 7 chord, which is made up of the notes D, F, A and C.

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-How To Write A Song On Piano How do you write a song? What are the components of a song? What do you need to know? These are all good questions and I hope to answer them in this lesson. The very first thing you need to do is pick a key for your song. The key of the song is the scale that your chord progression and melodies will be based on. I am going to use C major for an example, because it is an easy scale to work with. As you learn more scales, you will begin to get a feel for what emotions relate best to certain scales.

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-How To Write A Love Song I'm going to be really honest. I've actually only written one love song, for my wife when we got married. When writing loves songs, you want to remember the theme of tenderness, and the emotions that are going through you. So, how do you translate that to the piano? I kind of like the key of E flat, I think it is a pretty sounding key that is good for this type of music. When you play the E flat chord, try adding a 9th note to it (you remember your intervals don't you?). The 9th note adds a little something to the chord. Maybe try going up an octave after a while. Whatever you do, just remember to focus on creating that tenderness.

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-How To Play A Glissando Glissando is a fancy way of saying that you are playing all of the notes of the white keys in quick succession. You have heard it in some of those rockabilly songs. Here is the proper way to do it. Coming down the keys, use the back of your thumb. It will hurt a little bit at first, but as you get used to it the pain stops. Coming up the other way you use the back of your middle finger.

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-Piano Finger Speed Exercises Today I'm going to teach you a few finger exercises to help you build up speed and dexterity on the piano. Let's start our finger exercise in that old standby, C Major. With whatever hand you choose to start with, play the first five notes of the scale, using all five fingers. Work your way from C to G, then back down again. Don't play as fast as you can just yet. Start off nice and slow and make sure that all of the notes are the same volume. You want steady movements. Don't flick your fingers, move them steady and in a straight down motion.

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-Intro To Piano Ear Training In this series of lessons, I'm going to talk to you about playing by ear, and give you tips and tricks and go over the basics of training your ear. I hope to shorten the distance between hearing something in your head, and translating that to the piano keyboard. You may think you are tone deaf, but if you can hear an interval going up or down then you aren't tone def. You just don't have an understanding of intervals and how notes go together.

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-Piano Chord Progressions A chord progression is a series of chords put together in a pattern. In the beginning of the video, I play a chord progression in the key of F. That progression is F, B flat, C, B Flat, and back to F. Chord progressions are based around piano scales , so when I say the song is in the key of F, I mean that its chords are based on the F major scale. F is the root of the scale, B flat is the fourth note of the scale and C is the fifth note of the chord. Because of this we can say that F is the I chord, B flat is the IV chord, and C is the V chord. These three chords are the most popular chords in modern music. A lot of the songs you hear on the radio are written with just those three chords, although in a variety of keys.

Beginner Acoustic Piano Lessons-Piano Chord Inversions Today I want to talk to you about chord inversions? What is a chord inversion? Well to begin with let's take a look at a normal C major triad. The notes of the C major triad are C, E, and G. That arrangement of the notes can also be called the root inversion.