by Vince | Jan 5, 2014 | Advanced Piano Lessons |
Close your eyes. While your eyes are shut, raise your right arm way above your head. Then, with your left hand’s index finger, try to touch the tip of your right pinky. Not so easy now, is it? See, this exercise tests your body’s proprioception—it’s the sense where...
by Vince | Dec 16, 2013 | Intermediate Piano Lessons |
Christmas Sheet Music is generally like every other kind of sheet music except for one thing: because of the well-known melodies, it is more open to re-harmonization. What does that mean exactly? Well, simply because everyone knows the melody, it's easier for the...
by Chris Salter | Nov 30, 2013 | Advanced Piano Lessons |
Here's a cool clip from the old Dick Cavett show featuring the great jazz pianist Oscar Patterson.
by Chris Salter | Nov 27, 2013 | Advanced Piano Lessons, Beginner Piano Lessons, Chris Salter, Intermediate Piano Lessons, Piano Wizard |
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...
by Chris Salter | Nov 8, 2013 | Chris Salter |
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... by Chris Salter | Oct 18, 2013 | Chris Salter |
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... by Vince | May 5, 2013 | Advanced Piano Lessons |
In this beginning piano warm up drill you will learn an easy piano chord run that can be used as a great warm up before playing your songs. This chord run utilizes the chords in the ROOT position. The chord sequence is C - Dm - Em - F - G - Am - B dim - C chord... by Vince | Apr 30, 2013 | Intermediate Piano Lessons |
Why are scales and arpeggios so important? Since the vast majority of Western music is based upon major/minor tonality, having a mastery of scales and arpeggios is like knowing your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division tables in order to do math. Also,...
