This is the start of a multi-part lesson on rhythm. This first part explains how notes are measured in beats, how to count out a series of notes, and how notes are grouped in repeating patterns.
Let me give you some easy progressions that will help you in your improvisational piano playing! What is a progression? A progression is a set of chords played consecutively. Generally, successive chords in a chord progression share some notes, which provides harmonic...
What if you found the most kind, patient and encouraging piano teacher possible, and she came to live with you, gave you a keyboard, and charged you only $16 per week? AND, no matter how often you worked with her, or how many children, and she only charged that amount...
Obviously the challenge is feedback. Online videos abound on Youtube, not necessarily teaching you what you want but teaching "something". The challenge is the lack of feedback and interactivity with the process. One of the biggest challenges is practice, i.e., how do...
One day I was in a seminar class on planning, with one of my mentors, Meir Ezra, and he laid out his system, in a kind of refined Gantt chart, and I realized I was looking at a sort of planning symphony, with harmonic elements in parallel, melodic elements in...
Listening to Music Lights Up the Whole Brain December 6, 2011 — Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new method that allows to study how the brain processes different aspects of music, such as rhythm, tonality and timbre (sound color) in a realistic ......
Newborn Infants Detect The Beat In Music (Jan. 27, 2009) — Researchers have demonstrated that two to three day old babies can detect the beat in music. This phenomenon - termed 'beat induction' - is likely to have contributed to music's origin. It enables ......
