No one likes to practice scales, but here are five ways to change up your routine, challenge yourself, and maybe even have some fun in the process.
Tag: learning music
How to Count Rhythm
Sometimes, musicians are so concerned with playing the right notes, that they put rhythmic accuracy on the backburner. Don’t let that be you! Rhythm is largely responsible for giving music its energy, and in ensemble playing, it’s essential to ensuring that everyone stays together.
Easy Rhythm Pattern For Accompanying Yourself (or Friend)
Do you long to accompany yourself on the piano but don’t know where to start? Well, here’s some great news. You don’t need to be able to read any music at all to do it! Really. You do need to understand how to play some basic chords. But once you know some major and minor chords, you can use this rhythm pattern with both hands to play lots of up- tempo songs.
An Explanation of Clefs: Treble, Bass, Alto, Tenor
Four different clefs are used in music today; the most common are the treble and bass clefs, and the less common are the alto and tenor clefs.
How to Develop A Better Sense of Pitch
This is probably why Autotune infuriates so many serious musicians: those variations in pitch aren’t mistakes in the performance; they are the performance. If you clean up those “errors” and quantize everything to the “correct” pitches, all you’re left with is dry, robotic music.
How to Improvise on Piano with the Blues Scale
On the piano, blues scale is a lifesaver. While it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with the blues scale for each key, you can usually fall back on the root blues scale at just about any point in a jazz solo.