Are you ready to progress with your piano playing? Here is a little exercise to get you playing with both your right and left hand.
Category: Music Theory
Clip N’ Save: Play It Again – Using Repeats and Repetition
As a musician, you have likely seen a repeat sign now and again. Repeat signs are used in a variety of ways, and there are different types of indicators depending on the situation.
Clip N’ Save: Moving On Up – Types of Scales
Scales often serve as a basis for melodic structure in a song, and are important to learn as a beginning musician.
Clip N’ Save: Breaking the Code of Modes
Modes are scale forms that developed in liturgical music around the 9th Century and serve as various ways to form a scale by adjusting intervals.
Clip N’ Save: Make Your Music More Dynamic
Dynamics allow you to add color and emotion to your playing. Find out how to make your music more dynamic with these tips and tricks.
Clip N’ Save: Learn Your Degrees
Every chord you play or hear is made up of different scale degrees. The combination of scale degrees determines the type of chord and, in turn, the type and sound of the chord.
Clip N’ Save: Holds and Pauses
Holds and pauses in music help add emotion and effect. They keep the listeners attention, make them hold their breath, and can have a huge impact.
Clip N’ Save: Hit the Right Chord
Have you ever noticed those little diagrams in your favorite songbook above every measure or two? Those are called guitar tabs, and they show guitarists how to play the chord for that measure.
Clip N’ Save: Get to the Counterpoint
Counterpoint is the art of combining various melodic lines in a musical composition. Some examples of counterpoint include rounds, fugues, and canons.
Clip N’ Save: Foreign Accent
Here are a few definitions for som e of the most common foreign accent markings found on musical scores and pieces.