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White Christmas

This lesson will help you read piano tab notation or keyboard tablature. You will find that this type of notation is easy to understand even if you cannot read music sheets. As an example we will use the Christmas song White Christmas.

If you do not understand sheet music at all I encourage you to start learning it. Learn just a few notes at a time and give yourself time to commit the names, how they are played and how the look at a music sheet to your long-term memory.

Making this effort will give you great rewards. Knowing how to read and play music scores will give you access to a nearly unlimited amount of melodies, solos, instructional resources and more.

Tabs can be of great help as you work on learning to read sheets. They are an easy way to learn melodies, chords and more. Read more...

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Piano Improvisation

Can you talk to people without first memorizing what to say? Probably you can. Can you create melodies and nice licks to chords on the spot? Many pianists find this harder. Let's try out a few ways to improve your improvisations.

Improvisation is a form of composing. In other words you are creating music.

In order to improvise in an intelligent manner and not only play random notes you have to listen to improvised music and practice on your keyboard in a manner that will help you create music when you improvise.

There are many ways to practice improvisation but let's start with playing a few licks over the II-V-I progression in the key of C. Read more...

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