In this lesson, we will try to understand four-sound chords. I hope you have already mastered the game of triads a little? If yes, then it’s time to move on, the negative answer sends you straight to Lesson #5 (to reinforce the material about chords). So let’s continue. Four-note chords are chords that consist of four notes. In fact, four note chords are no more difficult to play than three note chords. You will soon see this for yourself. Seventh chords are best played with the little finger, middle finger, index finger, and thumb (5-3-2-1). If at first you find it difficult to play four notes accurately without accidentally hitting…

It so happened that the most heartbreaking compositions were written in minor keys. It is believed that the major scale sounds cheerful, and the minor – sad. In that case, prepare a handkerchief: this entire lesson will be devoted to the “sad” minor modes. In it you will learn – what kind of keys they are, how they differ from major keys and how to play minor scales. By the nature of the music, I think you will unmistakably distinguish between a cheerful, energetic major and a gentle, often sad, plaintive, and sometimes tragic minor. Remember the music of Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” and Chopin’s “Funeral March”, and the differences between…

Well, finally, we have come to the most crucial moment in playing the piano. In this lesson, you will learn how to improvise with your left hand. This means that after carefully reading this lesson and working hard, you can easily play any piece the way you like, knowing only the melody and chords to it. What do you need to know for this? The melody, I hope, you can already reproduce by notes. To be able to build chords in their basic form (major, minor, diminished). Do chord inversions. Have an idea about different types of accompaniment (accompaniment) and skillfully use them. Aren’t you scared? We have already done…

In this lesson, we will talk about another means of conveying emotions – dynamics (loudness) of music. We have already said that musical speech is very similar to speech in our traditional sense. And one of the ways to express our emotions (besides the tempo of reproducing words) is another, no less powerful one – this is the volume with which we pronounce the words. Gentle, affectionate words are spoken softly, commands, indignation, threats and appeals are loud. Like the human voice, music can also “shout” and “whisper”. What do you think unites the explosive called “dynamite”, the sports team “Dynamo” and the tape “speakers”? They all come from one…

With this lesson, we will begin a series of lessons dedicated to various nuances in music. What makes music truly unique, unforgettable? How to get away from the facelessness of a piece of music, to make it bright, interesting to listen to? What means of musical expression do composers and performers use to achieve this effect? We will try to answer all these questions. I hope that everyone knows or guesses that composing music is not only writing a harmonious series of notes … Music is also communication, communication between the composer and the performer, the performer with the audience. Music is a peculiar, extraordinary speech of the composer and…

So let’s continue. In the last lesson, we talked about the major and minor major seventh chords. The best way to learn how to build all other types of seventh chords is to imagine them as a modified clone of the minor major seventh chord, or the dominant seventh chord (as it is also called). The content of the article Small minor seventh chord  Augmented seventh chord Diminished seventh chords Small minor seventh chord To obtain minor minor seventh chord from Do (Cm7), you need to lower the Mi, or third, by half a tone in a small major seventh chord (dominant seventh chord) from Do (C7) and turn it…

Have you ever thought about what makes our speech unique, unlike anyone else? And with the help of what do we distinguish that they make fun of us, threaten us, caress us with speech, etc.? When communicating, we use different shades of speech, using different articulations. We can speak smoothly, languidly, we can caustically, caustically. So it is in music. Playing without articulation is soulless, spineless. Such a game will not hook the strings of the soul of the listener. It’s like listening to a long monotonous speech. So what is articulation? Articulation refers to different ways of pronouncing a melody with varying degrees of dismemberment or connectedness of notes.…