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For absolute beginners - Pianoclues: Free tips and lessons for playing piano, organ and electronic keyboard

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Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. Just in case you are completely new to the piano and making music in general, here is a quick introduction to the instrument and music theory. Even though a piano has 88 keys, there are only 12 unique tones:. This group of 12 tones is called an octave. The white key immediately to the left of each set of 2 black keys is called C. Like I said, there a...

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Altered chords - Pianoclues: Free tips and lessons for playing piano, organ and electronic keyboard

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Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. Occasionally, you may come across a weird-looking chord symbol such as G7b9. Indicate “alterations” to the chord. Alterations change the “color” of the chord but do not change its character and purpose. As always, b. Means to lower a tone by a half-step and #. Means to raise the tone a half-step. Contains the tones of the G7. In their name: C#9.

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Why learn chords? - Pianoclues: Free tips and lessons for playing piano, organ and electronic keyboard

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Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. Musicians can be divided into two groups: those who read sheet music and those who play using the “chord method”. Even for classical music! Just like today’s songwriters, composers of classical music used chords to create their harmonies. Chords are the foundation of all our music. Here is an example:. Because I know how to form chords. I don’t...

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Fun with the Circle of Fifths, part 1 - Pianoclues: Free tips and lessons for playing piano, organ and electronic keyboard

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Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. Fun with the Circle of Fifths, part 1. This is the Circle of Fifths, you may have seen it before:. Some people think it should look like this:. And there are people who call it the Circle of Fourths. None of those differences really matter because it all comes down to the same thing. We will use the circle from the first picture. Another way to look ...

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Fun with the Circle of Fifths, part 2 - Pianoclues: Free tips and lessons for playing piano, organ and electronic keyboard

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Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. Fun with the Circle of Fifths, part 2. If you ever wonder what the order of sharps or flats is in the key signature, then you can look at the Circle of Fifths. In the previous post. We saw that the key of C major has no sharps or flats. The key of G major has one sharp, the key of D major has two, and so on. See how it works in practice:. Bb major sc...

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How to construct the major scales - Pianoclues: Free tips and lessons for playing piano, organ and electronic keyboard

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Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. How to construct the major scales. The major scale is the most commonly used scale in our music. You should learn all major scales by heart, but it’s also good to know how they actually work. In this article, we’ll learn to build the major scales from scratch. You have probably seen the C. The C major scale: C D E F G A B C. Is a whole-step and H.

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The power chord - Pianoclues: Free tips and lessons for playing piano, organ and electronic keyboard

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Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. The “power chord” is a simplified chord, used mostly by rock guitarists but it also has a place on the piano. Remember that a major chord consists of the first, third and fifth degrees. Of the major scale. A minor chord is like a major chord but with the 3rd lowered a half-step. The notation for a power chord, for example the C power chord, is C5.

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The three building blocks of music - Pianoclues: Free tips and lessons for playing piano, organ and electronic keyboard

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Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. The three building blocks of music. Music is made up of three building blocks that continuously interact with each other:. On the piano, melody is most often played in the right hand. It is the most recognizable part of a piece: this is the part that people remember and hum along with. For us, rhythm is the difference between short tones and long ton...

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The different types of chords - Pianoclues: Free tips and lessons for playing piano, organ and electronic keyboard

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Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. The different types of chords. Let’s start by looking at chords. In future articles I’ll go into greater depth: how to construct chords. How to use them, and. You would want to use them. 8212; even if you’re a classical player. But for now, a quick overview. What is a chord? Well, that depends on what you want to use the chord for. The root tone), E.

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The names of intervals - Pianoclues: Free tips and lessons for playing piano, organ and electronic keyboard

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Clueless about playing the piano, organ or electronic keyboard? Here you'll find plenty of tips to get started, in any style from classical to jazz and pop. The names of intervals. Is nothing more than the distance between two tones. It is often convenient to speak about music in terms of intervals, so it’s important that you know the terminology. We distinguish between two kinds of intervals:. Interval is the distance between two tones played after each other:. There are several ways to approach this:.