Nov 04
The canon (not a big gun as in the photo of a civil war cannon) is a musical form where the melody or tune is imitated by individual parts at regular intervals. The individual parts may enter at different measures and pitches. The tune may also be played at different speeds, backwards, or inverted. Listen to this short podcast where I illustrate and demonstrate a musical canon on the piano:
Oct 21
There is more than one way to play in a block chord style of piano playing. Today we are going to look at the “locked hands” style made famous by such jazz greats at George Shearing and others. Listen to this short podcast and you’ll get the idea:
Oct 18
Articulation in piano playing is exactly like articulation in speech. You’ve heard people that don’t pronounce each word, but slur words into each other. If it is extreme, their words are hard to understand. But you’ve also heard people that pronounce each word clearly –almost all good public speakers do that. Of course anything can be taken to an extreme, but as in speech, piano playing needs to be clean too — so each note can be heard and not all “muched” together. Listen to this short podcast and you will instantly understand.
Oct 16
There are several different kinds of non-harmonic tones including passing tones, neighboring tones, suspensions and anticipations. Today our podcast is about appoggiaturas which are non-harmonic tones which occur on a strong beat then resolve to a harmonic tone. Have a listen by clicking on the audio player below:
Sep 27
This podcast is about how to throw a curve ball at your listeners by creating a false ending, also known as a deceptive cadence.
Aug 23
Learn to play Diminished 7th Chords – Doorways To Everywhere
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