Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Composing music is one of the most enjoyable and rewarding experiences you can have as a musician. Every beginning piano student should try composing piano music. However, learning how to compose music on piano can be a little overwhelming at the beginning. You might ask yourself questions … Continue reading Composing piano music can be simple and fun!
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Music is a language. Like all languages, music incorporates a set of characters and symbols to communicate meaning. Quarter, half and whole notes are three of the basic note types we use in music to communicate the duration of notes. Think about them like basic units of … Continue reading Quarter, half, and whole notes: the foundations of rhythm
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Singing and playing piano is one of the most powerful things we can do as musicians. Think of the impact of musicians like Elton John, Alicia Keys, John Legend, and Freddie Mercury. Their strong piano skills combined with the emotional depths of their voices has produced some … Continue reading 10 tips to sing and play piano at the same time
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Alto clef is a lesser-known clef that we use in music theory and notation. Like its cousins the treble clef and bass clef, the alto clef helps us to orient ourselves on the staff. It is like a compass that we can use to maneuver the realms … Continue reading Alto clef: the hidden gem of reading
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Have you always wanted to learn to play the piano or are you thinking about enrolling yourself in piano lessons? The piano is an extremely beautiful and versatile instrument. Learning to play the piano should be done in a focused and methodical manner. Having some idea of … Continue reading Know these tips before starting piano lessons
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog Got a request for some info on this tune… I’d not heard it, but it was a fun one so I made a video about it for you, I hope you dig it. Read More This article is from an external source and may contain external links not controlled by Empeda … Continue reading Memphis – Lonnie Mack
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Skoove has made playing in acoustic mode an exceptional experience, however you can still get even more out of your piano lessons! Plug your keyboard into the iPhone or iPad and watch your Skoove experience improve in the following ways! (For more information on how to connect … Continue reading How Plugging your Keyboard into the iPhone/iPad will Help You Learn Faster
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog I was in a private lesson and this tune came up as my student was asking about how these double stops work… Turns out, with just one shape, and some fun moving around, you can follow all of the chords and it really doesn’t take much work at all. So have … Continue reading Double Stops a la “Keep Your Hands To Yourself”
Piano Blog by Skoove – Piano Practice Tips Tone deafness is exceedingly rare. The only reason you might think that you are tone deaf, meaning you can’t hear the difference between tones, is because you have never been taught how to hear pitches properly. At some point, somebody taught you how to recognize colors and … Continue reading Have you ever wondered if you are tone deaf?
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog There are a lot of different tunes that, while “bluesy,” aren’t really blues songs (they aren’t a 12 bar blues.) This particular progression, which is used in songs like, “Blue On Black,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” and a lot of other classic rock and “blues” tunes, lends itself really well to experimenting … Continue reading Using Both Pentatonics Over “Bluesy” Chord Changes
