So the moment has come when you have a piano in front of you, you sit down at it for the first time and … Damn it, but where is the music ?! If you thought that learning to play the piano would be easy, then acquiring such a noble instrument was a bad idea from the very beginning. Since you are going to make music, even if it is only a hobby for you, then immediately set yourself a goal that you will be ready for at least 15 minutes, but every (!) Day to devote your time to playing the instrument, and only then will you get the…

As you know, a good foundation is the basis for the fact that the whole structure will be stable. In the case of the piano, this foundation will be the correct landing at the piano, because even if you know the whole theory well, you simply cannot reveal your full potential due to physical difficulties.  Initially, it may seem to you that playing in the proposed way is inconvenient, but, believe me, all this was not invented for the sake of someone’s stupid whim – over time, you will realize that playing correctly is much easier than the way it comes into your head. It’s all about self-control and nothing…

Gather your courage – it’s time to start learning! Before you sit in front of the instrument, leave all the negativity somewhere to the side and concentrate as much as possible. It would seem that things that are simple at first glance will still have time to present you with many surprises, but most importantly, do not lose heart if something does not work out for you the first time. The second important advice is don’t rush, Moscow wasn’t built right away either. (But if suddenly you are already studying at a music school and ended up on this page by accident, it will certainly be useful for you to…

The question that worries everyone who begins to learn the musical world is how to learn notes faster? Today we will try to make your life a little easier in the field of learning musical notation. Following simple recommendations, you will see that there is nothing complicated in this work. First of all, I can state that even professional musicians with impressive playing experience cannot always present information correctly. Why? Statistically, 95% of pianists receive their musical education at the tender age of 5 to 14. Teaching notes, as the basis of the fundamentals, is studied at a music school in the first year of study. Therefore, people who now…

Tablature is a type of instrumental notation. Simply put, a way of recording musical works, alternative to musical notation. “Tab” is an abbreviation for tablature, which you’ve probably heard before. They are musical schemes, consisting of letters from numbers, and at first will seem to you a Chinese letter. In this article we will try to figure out how to read keyboard tabs. In a typical piano tablature, notes are written on several horizontal lines. Here, for example, a simple example of a keyboard tab is the F major scale.   The history of taba begins with the recording of compositions for the organ. Organ tablature has been known since…

In the last, third lesson, we studied major scales, intervals, steady steps, singing. In our new lesson, we will finally try to read the letters that composers are trying to convey to us. You already know how to distinguish notes from one another and determine their duration, but this is not enough to play a real piece of music. That’s what we’ll talk about today. To get started, try playing this simple piece: Well, did you know? This is an excerpt from the children’s song “The little Christmas tree is cold in winter.” If you learned and were able to reproduce, then you are moving in the right direction. Let’s…

At this stage of mastering the Piano Tutorial, we will continue to study major scales, more precisely, the remaining major scales played from white keys. I hope you are already quite familiar with the solfeggio and the piano keyboard, since now you will have to select scales that will be written exactly in the form of notes. In lesson #2, you learned about the C major, F major, and G major scales. It remains to learn 4 more scales: Re, Mi, La and Si major. In fact, they are all played according to the same scheme already known to you: Tone – Tone – Semitone – Tone – Tone –…

At the last lesson of our Tutorial, we learned how to navigate the piano keyboard, got acquainted with the concepts: interval, tone, semitone, harmony, tonality, gamma. However, if you are going to be serious about playing the piano, then you need to be able to read music. Agree that if you, for example, are fluent in a foreign language, but cannot read or write in it, then the value of your knowledge will be much less. Yes, I won’t lie to you – this is not the easiest knowledge to learn, and at first you will have to spend some time to understand which note on which line means what,…

Hello dear friends! Well, the time has come to feel like little composers and master the construction of chords. I hope that you have already mastered the musical musical alphabet. Usually, the next step in learning to play the piano is cramming, which leads to the fact that newly-minted pianists, appearing in the company of friends, of course, can play rather difficult pieces, but … if they have notes. Think about how many of you, when going to visit, think about such things as notes? I think no one, or very few :-). It all ends with the fact that you cannot prove yourself and boast of your talents and…

So, in the last lesson, we stopped at the chords of the main steps of the mode. In this lesson, we will try to understand what is side step chordsth, or side triadshow they are built and why they are needed at all. Triads that are built on the II, III, VI and VII steps are called by-products, because “they are of secondary importance” (this is a quote from the official textbook). That is, on all steps, except for I, IV and V (main steps), we can build the very triads that are called «by-products.” If you are diligent, try to do this construction in the modes you know: C…