What Is a Musical Cadence? How Many Are There? A musical cadence is a chord progression that ends in a feeling of rest, or repose, or hesitation. It has a feeling of completion in contrast to chords that keep moving. … Continue reading →
What is the Picardy 3rd Ending? Listen to the podcast by clicking on the arrow button below: Here is a transcript of the podcast: Hello this is Duane and I’d like to share another good stuff you really ought to … Continue reading →
Free Piano Podcasts! Did you know that I have about 30 or more free podcasts for you to listen to? Here are some of the titles: Appoggiaturas-in-pano-playing.m4a Appoggiaturas.m4a Articulation-The-Key-To-Clean-Piano-Playing.m4a Block-Chords-Locked-Hand-Style-2.m4a Block-Chords-Locked-Hand-Style.m4a Canon.m4a Canon_ A musical form.m4a Canon_ A-musical-form-2.m4a Chordal-Echos.m4a Chromatic-Whole-Tone-Pentatonic-Scales.m4a … Continue reading →
Have you ever looked the beginning of a piece of music and noticed that there are a few numbers written? Maybe you’re one of those people who like music because it’s NOT math so you were shocked to see numbers. … Continue reading →
You can learn a lot about music theory just by paying close attention to a song – how many measures it has, how they are organized, how sections repeat, and so on, as well as analyzing the chords to see … Continue reading →
Here are two questions my 6th grade Granddaughter came up with to strump her science teacher. Do you know the answers? Question: Why do all “C” notes on the piano sound alike — just higher or lower, but sound the … Continue reading →
Passing tones are notes that are not part of the chord in force, but pass between those chord notes. Watch this short video to see how to use one passing tone – the 2nd note of the scale passing to … Continue reading →
Regardless of what field or industry you’re in, you’re going to have a lot of vocabulary to learn. We thought we would put together some of the less common terms yet terms you are bound to see at some point … Continue reading →
What is Polytonality in Piano Playing? Polytonality indicates that two different tonal centers are being used at the same time. Sometimes this means playing in multiple keys at once, but in this example we are speaking of using more than … Continue reading →
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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