Many Ways To Play
Wednesday April 30, 2008
I had an interesting question in my Piano Forum the other day. The person wanted to know if it was OK to play chords with the left hand. She'd learned ... Read More
Write Your Own Piano Music
Saturday April 26, 2008
Who's your favorite composer?I get asked that question a lot as soon as people find out I'm a musician. But I can never give a simple answer. There's so much ... Read More
Roll Over Beethoven... but Slowly!
Tuesday April 22, 2008
Hungarian born pianist Andras Schiff is taking his time. He's performing the complete 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven at Carnegie Hall -- in a series of concerts spread over a ... Read More
A Turn For The Better
Friday April 18, 2008
Piano music is full of ornaments, whether in the form of trills, mordents, figured basses, and so on. In many cases they're simply musical abbreviations to save composers time writing ... Read More
Write Your Own Rag!
Monday April 14, 2008
All the creative minds do it. An easy way to come up with something new is to base it on something that already exists. Take the tune from Scott Joplin's ... Read More
Piano Music To Go!
Thursday April 10, 2008
New York composer Andrew Shapiro is taking piano music to the masses in a whole new way. He's performing every Sunday throughout the year at the Ground Zero McDonald's in ... Read More
You Say Staccato and I Say Legato...
Sunday April 6, 2008
Sounds like a song, doesn't it? But it's simply two ways of playing notes on the piano. One is staccato, those detached notes with the dots above them. The other ... Read More
Nothing Stuffy About the Piano!
Wednesday April 2, 2008
Don't let anyone tell you that playing the piano isn't fun. There's a whole new generation of performers showing just how much fun it can be! Take the incredible Lang ... Read More