Once you have found C on the keyboard, we need to figure on how to place our fingers. We start by numbering the fingers on each hand, 1-5. Always start with your thumbs as number 1 until you get to your pinky which is number 5. Now that you know how your fingers are supposed to be numbered, place your right hand thumb or finger number one on C. The left hand pinky or finger number five will be placed on C and all of the fingers will follow on the subsequent white keys. You ar
When I started to name this post, I was going to direct this post to the busy adult. But these days - with schools adding extra work now that they feel they are more confident in zoom learning and then the activities kids are in to help them stave off the separation that being in a pandemic has caused - Kids are just as busy. How do we get in practice despite? Well for one we need to think about what we are doing in all of the inbetween. Are we just sitting mindlessly at time
So I am always telling my students how important it is to practice. Even when we are professional musicians we have to keep working on our craft. It's like a muscle, if you don't use it, it goes limp and weak. I keep up my practicing but it was just sort of feeling routine. Practice for a lesson, practice scales, practice some old pieces, practice some new pieces...With no accountability each week, I realized I have to be my own instructor. Tell myself to work on this or that
On the piano you find white and black keys. 🎹 How do you navigate it all? Because just looking at them can make some people dizzy! Yes there are 88 keys, but did you know that there are only seven letters you have to remember? Yes, if you can just remember the first 7 letters of the alphabet you are winning the battle. That means that out of those 88 keys there is a lot of repeating going on. Now to make it even easier, we are going to find the note C and see how it repeats
My boombox wore out years ago. It was the last surviving piece of my history that I had kept going and then in high school it made its farewell. I now don't have a cassette player and its not like you can just buy them at Radio Shack anymore [:'( Poor Radio Shack!!!]. I remember that you could get a mixtape casette with certain cereals. I remember being super excited to hear a new album because someone made me a tape. I remember that before I had a computer with recording sof