Online Piano

Have you just bought a guitar or are you thinking of getting one, but you just do not have the first clue on how to strike a chord? If so, getting guitar lessons is definitely something you should consider.

It may be that you can even play a little bit already, but taking guitar lessons can still help to improve your playing abilities and your confidence.

The lessons that are available are categorized in nine different sections -

- The basics
- Technique
- Chords
- Scales
- Tuning
- Music Theory
- Music Styles
- Guitar Tech
- Forming a band

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Most students try too hard. They really want to be able to improvise. To sit down at the piano and express through music. But they try too hard and miss the point of it all. It doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, improvisation should be a joy. If it isn’t you are doing something wrong.

Here’s a simple method to get you going. Look at Lesson 3: “Rainforest.” Here we have a strategy for successful improvisation. The left-hand takes care of the background while the right is free to create whatever it wants from the G Major scale - an excellent method for beginners.

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Does this sound familiar? A guitar case lying around in your house doing nothing but gather dust. Chances are that despite your best intentions, you have one and probably never learned how to play, or started taking beginner guitar lessons and soon lost your enthusiasm, or something else got in the way. Taking beginner guitar lessons in the traditional manner sometimes just doesn t work all that well when you re busy with little things like life. However, if you have a computer, and who doesn’t these days, you can easily find many online sites that offer beginner guitar lessons gratis, for free, or you can buy guitar lesson packages with DVDs and instructional manuals that can be sent to

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Most people think you need to learn sophisticated chords and lots of them to play “good” piano music. Wrong! You don’t need to learn 100’s and even thousands of chords you’ll never use. What’s perfect for the beginner and experienced player too is to limit choice!

Just a few chords, a scale to improvise in, and we’re off creating a world of sound! For example, take the lesson “Winter Scene.” Here we have 2 chords played by the left hand. We use a certain pattern to play these chords with and we’ve created a harmonic background. All that’s left to do now is to add in the melody (foreground) and that’s it - an improvisation that can last as long as

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For the beginner in piano music, what do all those foreign words and strange symbols mean on your sheet music? And does it matter?

Ritardando? Da Capo al Coda? Acciaccatura?

People from earliest times decorated their bodies and their dwellings, and worked designs on their implements in order to make them more attractive to use or just for pleasure in their leisure time. We still have the same desires today.

So too, throughout the ages, ornamentation has played an important part in increasing our enjoyment in listening to music in its many forms. Decorations for melodies have been found way back in Gregorian music (c. 540 - c. 604 AD) and in the music of the Middle Ages (500 - 1450 AD).

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