Piano Made Easy for Children : “It’s Piano Lessons in a Box!”

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It’s Piano Lessons in a Box! Winner of Creative Child Magazine Top Toy of the Year Award; Family Review Center Platinum Award; iParenting Media Award; National Parenting Center Seal of Approval; The Toy Man Award of Excellence; and National Parenting Publications Honors Award – visit their sites for independent reviews of PIANO MADE EASY. Learn how to play the piano with PIANO MADE EASY! This computer adventure for beginners teaches how to count rhythm and the keys on the piano. With the help of zany Bill the zookeeper and his dog you’ll learn how to play music on your own PIANO MADE EASY piano. Up to 4 people ages 7 to adult will make your way through a beautiful zoo learning a new piano concept at each stop. Hidden in the zoo are 57 pieces of orchestrated music plus 10 rhythm and keyboard games. Kids and adults will have a great time learning to play the piano with PIANO MADE EASY’s fun piano lessons. PIANO MADE EASY is a 49-key piano keyboard with power adaptor and instructional CD-ROM game for use on a PC computer with Windows 98 2nd Edition, XP, or Vista.

  • From the Creator of America’s Leading Group Piano Method
  • NO colored stickers; NO short cuts; NO gimmicks – Beethoven would approve!
  • The foundation to becoming an advanced pianist – Classical Piano Lessons for Modern Kids
  • It’s Piano Lessons in a Box! Winner of multiple prestigious awards (see below).
  • Includes 49-key piano keyboard and educational CD-ROM game. Ages 7 to adult; up to 4 players.Does NOT need a midi cable or midi connection.

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Professional Piano Chords For Everyday Pianists

The piano teaching “establishment” has been around for hundreds of years, and although there are new technology and teaching methods, the basic approach hasn’t changed all that much. Why?

Maybe people are afraid to change.

Maybe they think it’s somehow required that you go through years of lessons, exercises, scales, blah, blah, blah before you should be allowed to sound good on the piano.

If all you want to do is make songs sound REALLY GOOD on the piano, with professional chords and smooth chord progressions, why in the world should you have to wait years, if you could learn to do it in a week or two.

“Professional Piano Chords For Everyday Pianists” is a digital e-book. You’ll instantly download it as an easy-to-use PDF file.



Here are just a few of the things you’ll learn in “Professional Piano Chords For Everyday Pianists”:

The absolute fastest way to learn any new chord, so you can play it the instant you see the chord symbol.

The single 3-chord progression found in 70-90% of all popular music that just might change the way you listen to and play music on the piano forever.

The very special chord that can open the doors to a whole new world of piano playing (it did for me) – and exactly how and when to use it.

Exactly where to play chords on the keyboard so they sound the best – not too muddy, and not too thin, but just right.

A VERY simple method for adding bass notes to your beautiful new chords – it may look overly simple, but it can make your playing sound like a true professional in no time.

How to play a chord progression so that it sounds good – it’s called voice leading, and it is one of the secrets to professional-sounding piano that very few people learn how to do properly – except for you!

Clear, Simple Chord Charts Show You Exactly
How To Play Like The Pros – OBVIOUSLY, These Are The Beginning Chords Just To Show You How I Illustrate Chords In The Book – We’ll Move WELL Beyond These Basic Chords

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It’s never been easier to learn Piano

Here is another great way to learn piano, with Pianoforall.

Would you like to just sit down at a piano and just play music you like such as Pop, Blues, Jazz, Ragtime, Ballads, even Classical pieces? Well you can and you can do it in months not years and without having to spend lots of money, time and effort on traditional Piano Lessons.

The Pianoforall Process is simple..

You start with Popular Chord based Rhythm Style Piano (think of artists like Elton John, Billy Joel, Lennon & McCartney, Barry Mannilow, Lionel Ritchie, Coldplay, Norah Jones and so on) which is EASY but sounds amazingly like the ‘real thing’. This enables you to achieve a professional sound almost immediately. Once you are sounding great and having a whole lot of fun (which motivates you to learn more) you then expand step-by-step on your chord and rhythm knowledge into Blues, Ballad style, Jazz, Ragtime, Improvisation and yes.. even Sight Reading Classical music

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Piano For All

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Piano Scales

What is a piano scale?

A scale is simply a row of notes in some consistent order. The word “scale” comes from a Latin word meaning “ladder”, so the notes of a scale ascend or descend the ladder rung by rung.  The most-used scale is the C major scale, which is a row of notes  in the following order:?-

C Major piano scale

The following chart shows the notes of all 12 major scales:-

1st  note (do) 2nd note (re) 3rd note (mi) 4th note (fa) 5th note (sol) 6th note (la) 7th note (ti) 8th note (do)

C scale

C

 D E F G A B C
Db scale

Db

Eb

F

Gb

Ab

Bb

C

Db
D scale

D

E

F#

G

A

B

C#

D
Eb scale

Eb

F

G

Ab

Bb

C

D

Eb
E scale

E

F#

G#

A

B

C#

D#

E
F scale

F

G

A

Bb

C

D

E

F
Gb scale

Gb

Ab

Bb

Cb

Db

Eb

F

Gb
G scale

G

A

B

C

D

E

F#

G
Ab scale

Ab

Bb

C

Db

Eb

F

G

Ab
A scale

A

B

C#

D

E

F#

G#

A
Bb scale

Bb

C

D

Eb

F

G

A

Bb
B scale

B

C#

D#

E

F#

G#

A#

B


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More Right-Hand Techniques for Piano Players

By Edward Weiss

Most students new to piano playing really want to know what to do with the left hand. They think the left hand holds the secret to great improvisations and music. While it’s true that the left hand has usually been the captain of the piano ship when it comes to setting arrangements, the right can also join in.

Look, the right hand is where most of us create our melodies. It’s considered easier than the workhorse part the left has to do with creating arpeggios, ostinatos and the like. But, we can also use the right hand to create arpeggios and ostinato patterns.

For example, in the Lesson “April Rain,” the right hand plays closed position seventh chords as arpeggios while the right plays bass notes as melody. This is not a new technique by far but it’s not usually used in New Age piano playing.

And like any other technique, it takes a while before you feel comfortable enough to play a left-hand melody using bass notes. The piano is such a versatile instrument because unlike many other instruments, the notes are all laid out for you. You can switch hands, criss-cross hands, and do many other things with a piano keyboard that you just can’t do with something like a saxophone or even a guitar!

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Visit www.quiescencemusic.com now and get a FREE piano lesson!

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