In the last lesson we learned how to count double dotted and dotted notes. Now that we know how to count those notes, we can now count double dotted and more dotted rests. Dotted Rests Now we will look at 8th and 16th dotted rests. The dot adds half the Read more…
This is not the classical music you can relax with. Don’t even try to study while listening to this, you won’t succeed. Follow along with the Spotify playlist: If you prefer to watch videos, I made a YouTube playlist. These are especially fun to watch since they are all epic Read more…
From September to the week of Thanksgiving I took apart my piano since I am getting rid of it. I currently play on a digital piano, which I actually like better than this piano. I was unable to find anyone who would take it. I couldn’t just throw everything away Read more…
Double Dotted Notes In a previous lesson we learned that dots add half of the note value to the note. A second dot adds a quarter of the note value. Remember how beats can be divided into 8th notes, 16th notes, 32nd notes. The beat can be divided in 2 Read more…
This is a tutorial on how to put together a video of yourself playing your digital keyboard. When I first started recording, I noticed that the keys make a lot of noise, especially if you play chords. I wanted to record only the sound of my keyboard to cut out Read more…
Get ready to hear some of the most beautiful pieces of classical music. I have compiled a list of 5 pieces that I consider to be some of the most beautiful pieces of classical music. You can listen to all of them in the following playlist as you read more Read more…
In this lesson we will learn how to count 16th notes, 32nd notes, and their rests.. Flags and Beams Flags first appear on eighth notes, cutting the quarter note in half. Each flag cuts the value in half. The more flags we add to a note, the shorter it gets: Read more…
We have learned how to count whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, and eighth notes thus far. But what if we want to use a note that’s one and half beats or what if we want to hold a note across a barline? This is where dotted notes and ties Read more…
Rests are used to indicate silence. In a previous lesson on note lengths, we saw how long each rest lasts. In this lesson, we will learn how to count rests in time signatures where a quarter note gets the beat. Here is the diagram from the previous lesson, showing how Read more…
(This post first appeared on my old website Scherzo a piacere) Seattle, WA- Chelsea Whiting, a local graduate student at the University of Washington, is daring to do something never done before- compose variations on the popular John Cage piece 4’33” for her graduate composition project. The original work composed Read more…