Easy Piano Lessons

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.

Click here for more info.

.

What is the difference between a Music Tie and a Slur?

The curved line connecting the heads of two notes of the same pitch is called a tie and indicates that the two notes must be played as a single note with the same duration as the sum of the individual notes.

The following illustrates a tie

You might tie two notes which could be written with a single note value, such as a quarter note tied to an eighth note (the same length as a dotted quarter). One example of when you would use a tie is because a barline is in between the notes.

A tie is similar in appearance to a slur.

A slur in piano music is two or more notes played together, one right after the other, in a smooth fashion. A slur marking, indicated by a curved line that begins at the first note of the slur and ends at the last
The following illustrates a slur