Learn to Play Great Classical Pieces on the Piano
Learn to play Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata, and other classical pieces on the piano.
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Duane Shinn (that would be me) has good news for you if you want to play the piano. He (me) has little fat hands & stubby little fingers - not at all suited for playing the piano - more suited to making mud pies or some such. I am also fairly uncoordinated with just average musical ability - certainly not a great piano player. But I've learned a ton about music over the years and people tell me I'm pretty decent at explaining how music works & how to progress more rapidly on the piano. Over the years I have developed about 150 techniques for conquering the piano. Most professional pianists can do these techniques, but very few can explain them in a way people can understand. I specialize in making complex techniques simple. I invite you to watch a few of my free videos and see some of these for yourself before making any decision about taking any of my courses.
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Learn to play Fur Elise, Moonlight Sonata, and other classical pieces on the piano.
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Every major scale has a relative minor scale – a “kissing cousin” — that shares the key signature of the major scale.
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It is very easy to locate the key of a song
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How to use the online piano course catalog at www.PlayPianoCatalog.com
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Arpeggio is an Italian word meaning broken chord. Simply speaking, when we play an arpeggio, we split a chord in to its component notes and play them individually.
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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.
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The key signature at the beginning of a piece of music announces which sharps or flats (or neither) are in the piece, determining the key of the song.
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Some things in music that should be easy just aren’t. If you’re having trouble wrapping your brain about some of the concepts that you think should be easy, don’t beat yourself up. Learning to read music isn’t any different than learning a new language.
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Flats in the key signature of a song always occur the in same order: BEADGCF
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Perhaps the most useful kind of chord is the 7th chord, partly because there are so many variations of 7ths.
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