How To Find The Key Of A Song When There Are Sharps In The Key (Video)
It is very easy to locate the key of a song
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How To Find The Key Of A Song When There Are Flats In The Key Signature
When there are flats in the key signature, how do you locate the key of the song? It’s easy. Just count down 4 scale degrees and that is the key.
Continue reading →How To Use Polytonality By Combining Keys Or Chords (Podcast)
Polytonality involves playing two chords at the same time, usually in opposite hands.
Continue reading →Enharmonic Notes & Enharmonic Chords (Music Theory)
Enharmonic notes and enharmonic chords — how they work.
Continue reading →Greensleeves: Easier Than You Might Think!
Quite often we don’t take the time to analyze the music we play, but if we did we would often find it much easier to understand than we would otherwise think in terms of chord progressions and musical form.
Continue reading →Piano Boogie For Beginners Part One: Walk-The-Stairs In Your Left Hand
How to create a “walk the stairs” boogie pattern in the left hand
Continue reading →Piano Chords: Bring ’em to life using Passing Tones! (Video)
You can create motion in your songs by adding passing tones to your repertoire of piano techniques.
Continue reading →How To Play Piano Using Polytonality: 3 Situations
The word “poly” means, of course, “many”, so polytonality in this context means “more than one tonality”
Continue reading →Piano Lesson For Beginners: How To Play “When The Saints Go Marching In”
‘When The Saints Go Marching In” was written in 1896 and is in the public domain.
Continue reading →Piano Lessons: How To Put Octave-3rds Under The Melody In Your Right Hand
Playing the tune of a song in a “single-finger” style leaves much to be desired in terms of fullness.
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