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
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog In my experience, only a small handful of folks will actually try and do today’s lesson more than twice… Which is unfortunate, because I would argue it’s the skill that most everyone I work with needs to improve Many of the people who actually do it can do it already and … Continue reading Subdividing Beats Workout
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on June 24, 2022 by Klaus Crow Playing a chords, chord progressions and songs is fun, but combining chords with melody by adding licks to the table is even more fun. This style of playing adds beautiful colors to the rhythm that makes the whole thing really interesting to the listeners ear. … Continue reading Mix Chords, Licks and Melody
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
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog While this is obviously not a lesson on how to play Stairway To Heaven, or the solo from that tune… It was the first song where I learned this set of changes. Since then, I’ve seen them in songs like, “All Along The Watchtower,” and tons of old heavy metal songs … Continue reading The Stairway Changes
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on June 17, 2022 by Klaus Crow Are you in today for an acoustic fingerstyle with sweet added bass lines? Well pick up your guitar and let’s have some fun! This lesson is mainly for the intermediate guitar player, but there are certainly components in this piece you can practice as a … Continue reading Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle with Bass Lines
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on June 15, 2022 by Klaus Crow Today I have a nice short, mid-easy classical guitar etude for you with some beautiful sounding chords and a Klaus twist. I studied classical guitar from a private teacher for a couple of years and I learned a lot from that. These days I focus … Continue reading Easy Classical Guitar Etude
Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog I often get asked about using modes with the blues, and there aren’t a lot of simple, easy answers… Except this one. The Dorian Mode (the 2nd mode of the major scale) is a drop-in replacement for the minor pentatonic or blues scale – as long as you’re playing over an … Continue reading Dropping In The Dorian Scale
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
GUITARHABITS Last Updated on June 12, 2022 by Klaus Crow Hi Folks, I hope you’re in for a nice chord melody. Take your guitar out of the stand, grab a pick and get ready for a beautiful treat. Video Lesson Chord Melody Guitar | C F G Am Dm | In today’s lesson we are … Continue reading Chord Melody Guitar
