How To Find The Key Of A Song When There Are Sharps In The Key (Video)
It is very easy to locate the key of a song
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Students Only: How Best To Use Our Online Catalog
How to use the online piano course catalog at www.PlayPianoCatalog.com
Continue reading →Arpeggios: What Are They?
Arpeggio is an Italian word meaning broken chord. Simply speaking, when we play an arpeggio, we split a chord in to its component notes and play them individually.
Continue reading →How To Find The Key Of A Song When There Are Flats In The Key Signature
When there are flats in the key signature, how do you locate the key of the song? It’s easy. Just count down 4 scale degrees and that is the key.
Continue reading →Sharp Key Signatures: Learn All 7 Sharps & Their Order Once & For All!
The key signature at the beginning of a piece of music announces which sharps or flats (or neither) are in the piece, determining the key of the song.
Continue reading →What Are Those Little Dots After Certain Notes, And What Do They Do?
Some things in music that should be easy just aren’t. If you’re having trouble wrapping your brain about some of the concepts that you think should be easy, don’t beat yourself up. Learning to read music isn’t any different than learning a new language.
Continue reading →Flat Key Signatures: Do You Know Them All? (Video)
Flats in the key signature of a song always occur the in same order: BEADGCF
Continue reading →The Amazing 7th Chords: Seven Kinds Of 7th Chords (Video)
Perhaps the most useful kind of chord is the 7th chord, partly because there are so many variations of 7ths.
Continue reading →What Are “Fake Books” In Music?
A fake book is a book of songs where the melody, the lyrics, and the chord changes are included. If there is anything unique about the song, like an area where everything stops for a certain amount of time, that will also be noted.
Continue reading →What is a musical “suspension” in music theory? (Podcast)
A suspension in music is when the previous chord has a “hangover” into the new chord.
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