Q. I'm pretty good on piano,I've got about 3 to 4 years of experience. I always have a hard time finding songs to learn. I can not read notes, I learn from youtube. Please post the names of songs that would sound cool on piano. Thank you! :)
A. Any JAZZ makes you sound like a MONSTER of a PIANO PLAYER
New Orleans Styles
Super Mario Brothers Theme Songs
Learn many Theme Songs from Movies, Cartoons, Television Shows, Game Shows, etc..
Learn the most common jingles that everyone has a catchy ear for...
Keep up with at least 2 of the latest tunes of every genre. (Even if you never perform them.. give them a listen, play them and keep up with the times.. Rock today isn't Rock from Yesterday..
Be sure to play music from today as well as from Yesterday. Same goes for other genres of music.. music is steady changing. KEEP UP.
DO NOT ONLY PLAY MUSIC THAT YOU LIKE... Play even music that you DO NOT LIKE - this will open your ear a little more and also give you a run in different chord changes and progressions.
Help! How do I learn chords on a piano/keyboard and use them in a song (with a partner)?
Q. At school we were told to make a song up using piano chords (i know what they are) but me and my partner are stuck with no ideas what-so-ever we really need ideas or instructions , also i need to get a good mark.
A. if you know your basic chords then the next step would be to utilize your own chord progression. like a 1-4-5-5seven-1. thats the most basic of chord prgressions also it depends on your style. like if you write classical or jazz or contemporary. me i do jazz so if you would like a cool jazz progression you can use this
[D,F,A,C] -Dminor7
[Bflat,D,F,A]-Bflat minor7
[G,Bflat,D,F]-Gminor7
[A,Dflat,E,G]Aminor7
[D,F,A,C] -Dminor7
[Bflat,D,F,A]-Bflat minor7
[G,Bflat,D,F]-Gminor7
[C,E,G,Bflat] Cmajor7
[C,E,F,A] 2nd inversion Fmajor chord.
i dont know how long it needs to be but that seems pretty nice right there. Good luck and i hope you get an A
What are some good activities for an experienced piano player to learn to sight-read better?
Q. I've played piano for several years now and I'm in the process of learning some pretty advanced pieces, such as Frank Liszt's Etude III, La Campanella. However; I never learned how to properly sight-read. Although I can read music, it sometimes takes me several months or more to learn a 2-3 page piece, depending on the difficulty. My question is, are there any activities or exercises that would help me augment my ability to sight-read.
A. While notating your own music is an excellent suggestion (it gets the notion of notation 'inside' you,) the best way to better your sight reading is to practice sight-reading - that is a blazing flash of the obvious. Now, here is what you will need to do....
Assemble a stack of piano music, I estimate for you this should be at near beginner's level, since by your description your sight-reading is painfully at beginning level.
Choose music you can sight read at least at 50%, better 75% or higher, the tempo marked. I emphasize again,, this will be much simpler fare than the pieces you are working on.
Library access is essential - you need stacks of individual pieces or collections. I suggest the Bartok Microkosmos books I - III, the Schumann Op 68 "Album für die Jugend," and similar materials.
The process:
Read through, once only, a given piece. Keep proper time. Do not stop for mistakes - antithetical to traditional music performance practice -- but essential for forcing yourself to look ahead, which helps you develop a grasp on pattern recognition and spatial cognition of intervals, chords and their inversions.
Once read, there is an already established memory of what the music is, therefore, reading it through a second time is NOT 'cold sight-reading,' which is your goal. You Can Only Sight-read A Piece Once - after which it is not sight-reading!
This work is not meant to be 'comfortable.' You are forcing yourself to read, at sight, pushing through rather than stopping, naming, calculating, making marks on your score. You will find that your mental stamina, at first, will flag after only a brief time. It gets better, like all practice, the more you do.
Never repeat a read-through. Do go progressively through the stack of material, marking where you stopped so you can begin with the next piece.
I cannot enough emphasize your accepting that as a sight-reader you are (in my estimate as a professional and professional teacher) a raw beginner, and that you accept, without embarrassment, that you are a beginner ~ and then be a good beginner.
There are also basic note-speller exercise books, and flash cards. I suggest you look at those too, and see if you feel 'beyond' them or if they might also be a good exercise for you.
All of this tells me you are very likely working without a teacher. This also makes me think you are working on pieces far beyond your 'true' ability at present, and it is also entirely possible you are not reflexively familiar with all key signatures, which you must be.
Music, and playing of an instrument are a cumulative studies (there is a progression of difficulty on which to build.) No teacher would assign you any piece which takes several months knowing it takes you months to learn only two or three pages; this is antithetic to real progress, the path to which is well-understood and taught in piano pedagogy.
Please consider a truly qualified and reputable teacher: they are generally worth every penny you pay them.
Best regards.
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