How To: Teach the location of middle C on the piano
Learn to teach the position of middle C on the piano and a one-finger etude to practice with.
Learn to teach the position of middle C on the piano and a one-finger etude to practice with.
Learn how to improvise on the piano. Great for beginning pianists.
Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Berklee professor Paul Schmeling shows ways to perfect your posture and finger position on the keyboard and play your favorite piano piece with a new level of comfort and ease.
Pete Sears guides you through minor pentatonic scales for playing the piano or keyboard.
Pete Sears guides you through different modes of playing the piano or keyboard. These refer to the step pattern intervals between the notes when playing a scale.
Pete Sears shows you how to style and harmonize major scales to perfect your piano playing.
A suspended chord (or a chord suspension) is usually made by holding one of the tones of a chord a tone higher, then resolving it to its resting place. This video explains what a suspended chord is and how to play them on the piano.
Pete Sears gives you a lesson on blues scales for the piano. Get ready for the blues! You should have a good understanding of regular scales first.
Pete Sears teaches you about melodic minors - how to play ascending and descending melodic minor scales on the piano. He demonstarates with C, but you can do the same in any key.
A Harmonic scale is basically the same as the natural minor but with a chromatically raised seventh degree. Pete Sears shows you how to play it on your piano.
Minor modes use the same set of key signatures as major modes; whichever signature corresponds to the step pattern of the natural minor scale is considered the key signature for that minor mode. Here, Pete Sears explains how to play minor scales on the piano.
Major piano scales are composed of a series of five whole and two half steps in this sequence: whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. This video starts by showing you how to play a C major scale.
Learn the first three steps to begin playing the piano. Wash your hands, sit straight, and use proper positioning.
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a simple song and a great one to learn if you're a beginner piano player. This video breaks everything down for you.
Learn how to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the piano - this is a great video for kids or beginners with finger positions and counting.
Learn how to play Old Macdonald on the piano. The video starts with an overview and then gives finger positioning and timing breakdowns.
Learn Beethoven's masterpiece "Ode to Joy" and how to play it on the piano. Full tempo and finger position breakdowns are given.
Learn the famous Big Ben song and how to play it on the piano. Easy to learn with a numbered overview of finger positions.
Learn how to play 'Lean On Me' by Bill Withers on the piano. This is a fun song for beginners.
This video is a demonstration of how to play latin patterns on the piano. A merengue pattern and a salsa pattern are demonstrated in Cmin. The patterns start simply and gradually become more complex.
This video is a demonstration of how to play Mad World by Tears For Fears on piano. This video is just a slow performance of the piece with the video over the performer's hands so you can learn by watching. It is played through several times with the camera focused on a different hand each time.
This video is a demonstration of how to play A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton on piano. This video is a slow performance of the piece with the video over the performer's hands so you can learn by watching.
This video is a demonstration of how to play Over My Head Cable Car by The Fray on piano. This video is a slow performance of the piece with the view over the pianists' hands so you can learn by watching.
At one point or another you'be probably been in a relationship that resembles that which Roberta Flack sings about in "Killing Me Softly With His Words." The girl is madly in love with the guy but he's kind of, well, a douchebag who hurts her repeatedly. But she still hangs on.
We we first started playing the piano, we thought every scale other than the C major scale was just too darn difficult. Too bad we didn't have this clever video to help us out!
Want to play "Telephone" by Lady Gaga? See how it's done with this free video piano lesson, which presents a complete breakdown of the song and it chords. While this tutorial is geared toward those who already have some knowledge of the piano, players of all skill level should be able to follow along given adequate time and effort. For more information, and to get started playing "Telephone" on your own piano or keyboard instrument, take a look!
Want to know how to play Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" on your piano or keyboard? Learn how with this free video piano lesson, which presents a complete breakdown of the song and its chords. While this tutorial is best suited for intermediate players, pianists of all skill levels can play along given a little time and effort. For more information, and to get started playing this Lou Reed classic on your own keyboard instrument, watch this how-to!
Written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto, "Naturo" is an ongoing Japanese manga series. The plot tells the story of a young ninja named Naruto Uzumaki, who constantly searches for recognition & aspires to become the ninja in his village that is acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all, also called a Hokage. The series is based on a one-shot comic by Kishimoto that was published in the August 1997 issue of Akamaru Jump and has since grown into a phenonmenon.
Playing along with your favorite songs is an enjoyable, and highly effective, way of developing your playing technique. In this piano tutorial, you'll learn how to play the introduction to "Let It Be" as played by Paul McCartney of the Beatles. While the lesson is geared toward players of an intermediate skill level, all players can follow along given adequate time and motivation. To get started playing the introduction "Let It Be" on your own piano or keyboard, press play!
Playing along with your favorite songs is an enjoyable, and highly effective, way of developing your playing technique. In this piano tutorial, you'll learn how to play the horn solo to "For No One" by Paul McCartney of the Beatles. While the lesson is geared toward players of an intermediate skill level, all players can follow along given adequate time and motivation. To get started playing the horn solo to "For No One" on your own piano or keyboard, press play!
Playing along with your favorite songs is an enjoyable, and highly effective, way of developing your playing technique. In this piano tutorial, you'll learn how to play "With a Little Help from My Friends" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles. While the lesson is geared toward players of an intermediate skill level, all players can follow along given adequate time and motivation. To get started playing "With a Little Help from My Friends" on your own piano or keyboard, press play!
In this tutorial, we learn how to fine tune a piano. When you move the pin, the speaking length of the string should move as well. When you're done it should stay stable. You should have a meter hooked up to your piano so you can see which notes are flat and which are pitching correctly. Sometimes you will be able to fee movement in the piano and then change how you want it to play. You will be able to hear if the pitch it soft or flat as you continue to listen to the notes that are being pla...
Chords are the basis of all music, whether you play a piano or a banjo. They're good to fall back on during improvisations and also sound great when progressed one right after the other.
If you want to learn how to play cool songs on the piano then this tutorial is the place to start. This lesson teaches you how to play "Body on Me" by Ashanti featuring Akon and Nelly on the guitar. This lesson is geared towards beginner and intermediate pianists but it does assume prior knowledge of piano playing. Follow along with the host and soon you will be able to play "Body on Me" by Ashanti featuring Akon and Nelly on piano.
If you want to learn how to play cool songs on the piano then this tutorial is the place to start. This lesson teaches you how to play "Can't Believe It" by T-Pain and Lil Wayne on the guitar. This lesson is geared towards beginner and intermediate pianists but it does assume prior knowledge of piano playing. Follow along with the host and soon you will be able to play "Can't Believe It" by T-Pain and Lil Wayne on piano.
If you want to learn how to play cool songs on the piano then this tutorial is the place to start. This lesson teaches you how to play "My Life" by the Game featuring Lil Wayne on the guitar. This lesson is geared towards beginner and intermediate pianists but it does assume prior knowledge of piano playing. Follow along with the host and soon you will be able to play "My Life" by the Game ft. Lil Wayne on piano.
This tutorial is designed to help you play famous riffs by Bjork on the piano or keyboard. These songs aren't taught in a literal or mechanical fashion but rather is taught to grasp the song's structural parameters & essence. This video include riffs from Human Behaviour, Joga, Bachelorette, The Modern Things, Army of Me, It's Oh So Quiet, & Isobel. This how to video is for beginner to intermediate piano students. With this lesson you will be able to play famous riffs by Bjork on piano.
In this tutorial, we learn how to play "Part of Your World" on a piano. First, you want to start out with the introduction to the song. You should have each of your hands on the piano sitting next to each other. The middle finger of the right hand should hit the "C" chord. Once you have this down, start to play in the rest of the parts of the song. Play the different notes as they are shown on the paper. Then, you will continue to play until you have it finished! Just practice and run through...
In this tutorial, we learn how to play Bingo on the piano. You will want to start out with the notes in front of you so you know which keys to play. Play the first part of the song first. You will notice that you play the same keys over and over again while doing this song. Break it down into sections so you have all the correct keys and listen as you are playing. Once you have finished playing all the sections, bring it together to create the entire song. Now add in the lyrics to the song an...
No matter how great you are at playing the piano, and even if you're a natural who can strum out Rachmaninoff perfectly simply by listening to it once, music theory should still be a vital part of your music learning process. Whether you're a beginning piano player or an advanced professional looking to polish up your music theory skills, you should check out this music theory tutorial.