Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The music for the 2003 Walt Disney Productions film Pirates of the Caribbean is fun, energetic, and full of catchy melodies and harmonies. The film is based off the Pirates of the Caribbean themed rides at Disney’s amusement parks and has since blossomed into a multi-film franchise … Continue reading Sail the seas with the Pirates of the Caribbean theme
Pianos – Keyboard and Synths – Music Instrument News Featuring a brushed aluminium body with wooden side panels, Pa5X boasts a detailed and immersive adjustable colour touch screen, supported by an array of intuitive hands-on controls. More than 2,200 professionally crafted sounds are powered by an expanded EDS-XP sound engine; these sit alongside more than … Continue reading Korg Excited To Announce New Pa5X Professional Arranger
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The best part of learning to play the piano is when you can finally find songs to play with simple chords. There’s great joy in playing a fun song with a simple piano arrangement, or looking through simple chord charts and making music. Finding things to … Continue reading How to play the best songs with easy piano chords
Pianos – Keyboard and Synths – Music Instrument News Akai Professional, a leading manufacturer of music equipment for performers and producers, has announced the launch of the highly anticipated MPC Key 61 standalone semi-weighted production synthesizer keyboard, including 25 unique plugin instruments with the most modern sound design textures and tonality for all genres of music, … Continue reading Akai Professional Announces its First Standalone Production Keyboard Synthesizer MPC KEY 61
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Like many pursuits in life, progressing in your piano practice requires consistency and discipline. It can feel easy at the beginning to make huge leaps in your skills. However, after some time you may feel like you start to hit certain plateaus. Feeling like you are hitting … Continue reading Simple strategies to improve your piano playing
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Join in the fun and celebration of World Music Day this month with Skoove. Music is a wonderful and beautiful force and what better way to celebrate the power of music than with an all-day celebration around the Summer solstice! Learn more about this wonderful day, some … Continue reading Join in the fun of World Music Day
Pianos – Keyboard and Synths – Music Instrument News Casio Music UK, one of the world’s most renowned producers of musical instruments, has revealed that it will release a Casiotone digital keyboard developed in collaboration with world-renowned visual artist Romero Britto – named the CT-S1FH. Romero Britto is a leading artist from today’s pop art … Continue reading Casio announces limited-edition pop artist product collaboration
Pianos – Keyboard and Synths – Music Instrument News It is with great sadness that Sequential today shares the news that its founder, American synthesizer pioneer Dave Smith, has died. The company and his family take solace in the fact that Dave was on the road at the time of his passing, doing what he … Continue reading American Synthesizer Pioneer and Sequential Founder Dave Smith Passes at 72
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The whole tone scale is a surreal and enigmatic sound that often feels ambiguous and unanchored. The scale is perfect for creating dream-like passages and is commonly found in the work of Impressionistic composers like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. However, examples of the scale date back … Continue reading Dreaming with the whole tone scale
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips The more you practice piano, the faster you will improve. That is a basic fact of piano playing that we all must deal with. However, we do not always have access to the piano, even when we want to practice. Fortunately, it is possible to practice music … Continue reading Strategies to practice music away from a piano
