Piano Technique
5. Hanon: Finger Exercise
There are 60 exercises in Hanon’s ‘The Virtuoso Pianist’ book. These exercises train pianists in speed, precision, agility, strength and flexibility
Piano Technique
4. Crab Crawl: Improving Your Scales
The Crab Crawl is an exercise we use to improve our scales. As it’s name suggests, this exercise is reminiscent of a crab crawling up and down our piano.
Piano Basics
4. How to Tell the Key of a Piece
Here are three ways we can distinguish between major and minor keys and tell the key of a piece; the sound, accidentals, last note in the bass.
Piano Basics
3. Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales
Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales. The other most common scale is the minor scale, which has the interval pattern T-S-T-T-S-T-T.
Piano Basics
2. Major Scales – One and Two Octaves
A scale is a sequence of notes that act as the building blocks for a piece of music. The first scales everyone encounters when learning music major scales