Jan 12 2009

How to play …. on the piano

Posted by Beginners Piano in beginners piano

Here is a YouTube Playlist I just made.

It’s a collection of ‘how to’ videos showing you how to play specific songs.

It has everything from ‘The piano man’ thu ‘Let it be’ to the theme from Tetris.

They are all for different levels of proficiency so there is sure to be one that suits you and some are better than others.

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Jan 07 2009

Beginners Piano Courses

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Of all the home study beginners piano courses, here are some detailed reviews of two of them… rocket piano and piano for all.

Rocket Piano

This course comes as a large collection of piano tuition books (eBooks), audio files, videos and learning games all of which can be downloaded to your computer.

If you are just starting out then this is the best method around to have you playing the piano to a proficient level in no time at all. It takes you right from the basics of how to to hold your hands and use your fingers through to reading music, improvising and professional jamming techniques.

The guides and videos will walk you through how to read music, and how to improvise, how to play Jazz and how to play Gospel all with the touch of a professional musician. The course is not only for absolute beginners as there are many advanced techniques to work up to. These include whole sections on Jazz and Gospel, improvisation made easy, advanced fingering exercises and groundbreaking learning techniques.

You will be trained to read music AND play by ear, so you will be able to play virtually any song that you hear This is real cutting-edge material and all for the incredible price of no more than one or two conventional piano lessons.

This is our top recommended beginners piano course – for more information visit the Rocket Piano manufacturer’s site for the best deal.

PIANO FOR ALL

This is a really complete guide containing no less than 10 eBooks with accompanying audio and video files. The course is set up a little different from most as it teaches you how to play by ear from the very beginning. You start off playing real songs with the chords you are taught and with professional sounding rhythms. Once you have the chords and rhythms internalized then you will progress on to the more advanced material which includes how to read music. The titles of the 10 eBooks say a lot about the course. They are;

Party Time / Rhythm Piano Teaching you rhythm style piano straight away
Shake.. Rattle ‘n’ Roll.. Showing how to play Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll Piano
Chord Magic Contains more piano chords and memory tricks and works on chord progressions
Advanced Chords Made Easy For you to learn advanced piano chords including songs and a rhythm chart for 80 Beatles songs
Ballad Style Teaching you piano ballad style
Jazz Piano Made Easy Contains some easy techniques you can apply to any tune – Standards, Traditional Jazz piano, Modern Jazz, improvisation and more
Advanced Blues Piano & Fake Stride Expands on the blues piano techniques learned earlier.
Taming the Classics Here you will learn to read piano sheet music
Speed Learning Speeding up your learning process with scales and exercises
Bumper Resource Book This covers everything else you need to succeed at the piano.

For more information visit the Piano For All site

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Jan 06 2009

Piano For All – What’s in the box?

Posted by Beginners Piano in beginners piano, Learn To Play The Piano, Piano Teachers, Piano Techniques

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Piano For All
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For those who want to learn to play the piano here is a detailed look inside one of the most popular beginners piano home study piano courses available. Piano For All.

The video shows in detail the exercises and what is inside the 10 books including,