General advice
- How to get a good piano teacher (5,000 words)
Which piano / keyboard should I buy?
(3,000 words)- The myth of
musical talent
Practice time
vs.playing time
- How to be a better music teacher (5,000 words)
Beginner piano course
New to piano? Start here!
- Part 1 / 89: The first pair of notes in the RH of John Lennon’s
Imagine
- Part 2 / 89: The first 4 pairs of notes in the RH of John Lennon’s
Imagine
- Part 3 / 89: Up & down
- Part 4 / 89: The next 3 pairs of notes in the RH of John Lennon’s
Imagine
- Part 5 / 89: How to practise
- Part 6 / 89: Adding the LH of John Lennon’s
Imagine
- Part 7 / 89: Finger numbers
- Part 8 / 89: The fast bit of John Lennon’s
Imagine
- Part 9 / 89: Playing the riff to John Lennon’s
Imagine
all the way through
The note names
- The best way to learn the note names – Part 1: the white notes
- The best way to learn the note names – Part 2: the black notes
Sight reading
Intervals
- What is a musical interval?
- Semitones
- Tones
- 5ths
- Root-5th-root chords
- Major 3rds
- Minor 3rds
- Minor 7ths
- Major 7ths
- 4ths
Chords
- The quickest way to learn the major triads
- The quickest way to learn the minor triads
- How to recognise different types of 7th chord
- A trick for working out the root of any triad or 7th chord
General theory
- Should you use American or British musical terms?
- What exactly do
major
andminor
mean anyway? (It’s probably not what you think.) - The circle of 5ths
- One simple rule to work out any key signature
- What’s the real difference between
tonic
androot
?
