Piano Arranging – Using Octaves With Intervals of a 3rd Piano arranging is a skill every piano player ought to develop, because it gives him or her the opportunity to “do your own thing” on the piano, without sounding the … Continue reading →
Yes – you can play fast piano runs too! Good morning, this is Duane. Today, we’re going to have a very short lesson about open-voiced octave : I’ll say open-voiced lightning piano runs. I call them lightning runs because they’re … Continue reading →
To get a really full piano sound in your right hand, stuff all the notes of the chord between the octave notes.
Continue reading →Playing the tune of a song in a “single-finger” style leaves much to be desired in terms of fullness.
Continue reading →The word “octave” is related to “octopus”, “octagon”, etc — in other words, eight. In music, an octave is 8 diatonic scale notes higher or lower than the note of the same name.
Continue reading →Some time ago I was talking about the piano, and a friend said to me “I don’t know Middle C from Tweedle Dee.” It slowly dawned on me that there are thousands of people who didn’t grow up with a piano in their homes, so how in the world could they know where various piano notes are located?
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