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Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 27 (Part ONE) Playing Major Scales on White Keys

Playing Major Scales can help you improve your improvisation in playing piano. In this tutorial, we are going to practice the major scales on 12 keys. This tutorial will be in two parts. PART ONE consists of all the major keys on WHITE KEYS, while PART TWO consists of all the major keys in BLACK KEYS. How to play Major Scales on White Keys? Lesson #27 Part ONE Happy Learning and Practicing!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 26 Alberti Bass

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Alberti bass is a kind of broken chord or arpeggiated accompaniment. This style of Left Hand accompaniment gets its name from the 18th Century Italian composer, Domenico Alberti. Here is the complete score sheet for the tutorial. Here is the video for you to learn how to play Alberti Bass. Enjoy Learning and Happy Practicing!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 25 Happy Birthday Song

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There will be always someone who has a birthday among your friends and this is a very important song to have. I have made a tutorial on how to play the Happy Birthday Song in the easiest way. Here is the complete music sheet in Grand Stave. Feel free to download it and use it together with the video tutorial. Happy Learning!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 24 Tonic Triads

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Hey! How do you know which notes to play? Let’s find out! In this tutorial, we are going to learn about Tonic Triads and how it is related to Chords. Enjoy learning!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 23 Simple Piano Riff on 5 notes

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How to play sweet, simple, and beautiful sound on piano? This is for everybody, including total beginners, even if you don’t know the musical notes.

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 22 Degree of Scale

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We use 7 letter names in Music. Scale Degrees refer to the 7 positions of the notes. How do we position them? Let’s find out.

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 21 NATURAL

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How Natural works in Music? NATURAL cancels out an ACCIDENTAL note that occurs before. Learn how this accidental sign - Natural works in just 3 minutes! In this tutorial video, you will be introduced with NATURAL, how to draw the sign, and how to use it in music. If you do not know what are Accidentals, here is the video for its explanation. 🤷‍♀️ What are ACCIDENTALS? Sharp, Flat? 🤷‍♀️ Here is the example music sheet I used in the video. Print them out for practice if you need to. Happy Learning! Drop me a comment if you have any questions!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 20 ACCIDENTALS Sharps and Flats

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What are Accidentals? Accidentals changes a pitch either higher or lower by a semitone or tone. In this article, we are just going to talk about: 1. Sharp ♯ : Raises a note or a pitch by a semitone 2. Flat ♭ : Lowers a note or a pitch by a semitone In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw the 2 signs, and how to use them on a piano keyboard. If you are looking for previous tutorials, check this playlist out! ♫ Piano Lesson 101 Full Playlist ♫ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-7PkTunCGKW_e1PSMW_2HglPN_GJfKKE And if you are looking for Digital Piano for beginners, I would recommend these: ❤ Recommended Beginner Digital Pianos ❤ Roland Compact 88-key Digital Piano with Built-In Speaker, contemporary black (F-140R-CB) https://amzn.to/2xnzwmS  Roland, Key 88-note Portable Digital Piano, black, FP-30 (FP-30-BK) https://amzn.to/2Vpqeyv (or Bundled) https://amzn.to/3cd3h8y

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 19 INTERVALS - Additional Music Sheets

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Why do we learn INTERVALS? This is essential to help us in Sight Reading Musical Notes. Here is a tutorial video I made explaining what INTERVALS are. In order to practice reading notes by INTERVALS, I made some additional music sheets for practice. These pieces train your visual to read the notes by Harmonic Intervals on the left hand, and Harmonic & Melodic Intervals on the right hand. Here are some practice tips. 1. To improve your Sight Reading, try to play hands together the first time, to try how far you can go. Then hands separately. 2. The left hand notes are designed to practice Harmonic Intervals from 2nd to 5th apart. When reading, try to name out their intervals. You may write them down at first. Then try to identify them without writing out. 3.  When playing the right hand notes, try to read ahead the next note while playing. Also try to identify the intervals, to build your muscle memory. I made a video demonstrating the songs abo...

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 19 What are Intervals

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Intervals in Music means the distance between two notes. Learn what are Intervals, and it can help you greatly in Sight Reading. The video explains what are Intervals. Happy Learning!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 18 Play any Major Scales

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Learning scale is very important as a musician. Scales helps us to develop keyboard familiarity, dexterity, keys and so on. To be able to play scales, you need to understand how they are made. Now here is the magic FORMULA: Tone Tone Semitone, Tone Tone Tone Semitone Enjoy learning with my video! Today is the 18th tutorial I made since 29th March 2020. Making a video everyday is not easy. From syllabus, writing script, filming, video editing, organizing and etc... it's really not easy. And because I am new to doing videos, the quality of the videos have been compromised. Hence, after this tutorial, I will change the upload schedule to once a week. Instead of rushing and give you contents, I will make sure the contents are properly planned and published. I will keep working hard and improve all my tutorials. I really hope my tutorial videos can help as many as possible people out there. Happy Learning everyone!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 17 Legato and Staccato

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What is ARTICULATION? How to play LEGATO and STACCATO? Here is how they different. Check out the tutorial video below! Here are the score sheets used in the tutorial. Feel free to download and use them for your practice! Here is a little song composed by myself for your practice. Happy learning and practicing!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 16 Dotted Minim and 3, 4 Time Signature

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A DOTTED MINIM note is a note with 3 counts. These are the materials we used in the tutorial. Across C and G7 Chord Pop! Goes the Weasel Now, enjoy the tutorial video I made. For the Bonus Music Sheet, drop me an email at suzann.music@gmail.com. I will personally send that material to you! Happy Learning and Practicing! Remember, determination and patience is the key!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 15 SIGHT READING

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Before I post the video tutorial, you may download these exercises and music sheets to get ready. Are you ready now? Let's get started! Here are some additional piano sheets for you. There are people that always claim they couldn't read musical notes. I personally think that is not the case. It is our mind whether to accept this knowledge or not. If you have been always telling yourself you are not going to get it, that's it. There is always no short cut, just more practicing. I hope my tutorials will help you in your piano playing.  If you like my contents, please subscribe to my YouTube channel and hit the golden bell icon for latest videos updates. Also check out my Facebook page, Instagram and my Blog!!!  Youtube: http://tiny.cc/6d1gmz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/suzann.music/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suzann.music/ Blog: https://suzannmusic.blogspot.com/

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 14

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Finally I'm keeping track of the lock down period in Malaysia. It's the 24th day today. The government says it will be until the 14th of March, but I doubt. It might be extended. Today we are not going to be so intense in piano playing. Let's learn how to CREATE! In this tutorial, I'm introducing what is RHYTHM and TIME SIGNATURE. Enjoy playing the piano! ** It's really not easy to make a tutorial video everyday. I'm working hard on this. Please if you would like to support me, help to like, comment and share my videos. Most importantly, subscribe to my YouTube Channel and get the latest updates by ringing the Notification bell!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 13

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Here comes my 13th Tutorial videos on Piano Lesson 101. Today, we are going to go more on CHORD. Here is the video to show you how. This is the Mary Had A Little Lamb score sheet used in the video. And this is the Broken Chord score sheet. Please note that I have used Block Chord as an ending. You might have difficulties playing several notes on your left hand as a start. You may always do a revision on your C Chord playing with this tutorial Lesson #5 video below: Here is the additional Song for practice. Let's start with just the C Chord on the Left hand. Playing left hand with block chords. Then we change the left hand playing Broken Chords Then we may move on to changing the chords on left hand with the following exercise. You may find it a bit difficult at first to change the left hand chord in minim counts. Try to practice a few times until you are comfortable with changing chords. Then, move on to playing Broken Chords on the left ...

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 12

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Here comes the 12th day of my tutorials. Today, I'm going to introduce to you FINGER YOGA! To make sure all our fingers are stretched, here is the additional video. I hope you enjoy these videos and exercises. If you just stumbled to my blog, and found these useful, please help to subscribe and share to your friends! Youtube: http://tiny.cc/6d1gmz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/suzann.music/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suzann.music/

Piano Lesson 101: Trailer

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It comes a bit later, but I decided to make a trailer for my Piano Lesson 101 series. Here is the video. Enjoy!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 11

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You might find playing hands together a little challenging. Today, I made a tutorial video on how to start doing it from very simple exercises. Here are the 2 music sheets I used in the tutorial. Playing 1 note on the left hand Playing 3 notes on the left hand. I have added hands together parts in our previous songs for your practice. The reason I'm reusing the songs that we've learnt, is so that we can learn by layering. Adding another layer on top what we've known, make us more confident in continuing the learning journey. I hope these exercises can really help you in pursuing piano playing. Remember, Roman is not built in one day. We need a lot of determination and patience in learning how to master piano playing Happy learning!

Piano Lesson 101: Lesson 10

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When it comes to prepare the tutorial for Grand Stave, I find it quite challenging. Just like how I start playing with both hands when I was younger then. Here are the score sheets I used in the video: Mary Had A Little Lamb These are the additional score sheets for your practice. I hope these can be helpful for you. See you in my next tutorial!