Making a piano tutorial video is not as difficult as it may seem, and if you’re like me and you don’t have any expensive equipment or advanced knowledge of camera angles and lighting, and you just want to make a good video without having to spend hours setting everything up; then here’s quick guide on […]
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Martin's tutorial articles are all aimed at helping you become a better piano player!
How difficult is it to read music?
Well, it’s actually a lot easier than most people realise! When you first look at a sheet of music it’s easy to think that it’s way beyond comprehension and impossible to learn. But once you are taken through the basic explanation of what each note means, where it’s written on the music and where it’s […]
What does the sustain pedal do on a piano?
If you’ve ever glanced under the keys of a piano, then you may have noticed two or even three pedals underneath the keys, which are operated using your foot (or feet). The most commonly used pedal is the sustain pedal, which is on the far right. This is called the sustain pedal (or damper) as […]
How to play piano blues – part 1
Playing the blues on the piano is not as hard as it may seem, and if you are fairly comfortable already with the piano, and you’d like to learn the blues, then here are a few simple tips to get you started! First of all you need a bass rhythm to make those right hand […]
How to play piano blues – part 2
Now that you’ve practiced the left hand from part I of this piano blues tutorial, you should be ready for the right hand. Here is a melody to get you started. This will fit nicely over your left hand for the first 4 bars in C: Here’s how it sounds: Now, this may look […]
How to play piano blues – left hand variations Part I
Here is the basic left hand rhythm which we used in the tutorial ‘How to play piano blues, parts I & II’ – We are now going to progress onto a slightly harder left hand, which uses the same notes as above, but with a different rhythm. Sometimes you may see this written in quavers […]
How to play piano blues – left hand variations Part II
This left hand is similar to Part I, however we are now going to introduce some new notes. Here’s how it looks – So you will now see that we have a D sharp and an E in the middle of those previous two notes we played, which were C and […]