In this video tutorial you are introduced to productive ways of teaching piano to kids. Kids are not always the easiest students to work with but the good news is that if they have not yet had much experience on the piano, then they haven't yet had the chance to develop any bad habits. This gives you the perfect opportunity to guide and shape their piano-playing.
If you are involved with teaching piano lessons to young students, or are yourself just beginning on the piano, pay close attention to the methods and techniques described in this video. You'll no doubt learn some creative ways to approach the piano.
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Proper Piano Playing Posture
When learning to play piano we often don't pay very close attention or even give much thought to our playing posture. Interestingly enough, your posture can be just as important as learning your first chords. If you practice bad habits, you may end up learning to play incorrectly, hindering yourself from progressing as well as you could.
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Pay close attention to how he describes proper hand placement, finger positioning, arm positioning and sitting posture in the video. Practice these habits and even make it a habit to concentrate on each of these posture exercises as you play. After you've practiced it enough times it will become second nature for you and you'll no longer even realize you're doing it!
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Learn Acoustic Blues Soloing
I liked this video for the method that he uses to show the simplicity of the basic acoustic E blues scale. The acoustic E blues scale is typically what a beginning guitarist is introduced to when learning the blues. By learning to play the basic open E blues scale, you will already have down the basics for a nice riff that you can then go in and add other "blues notes" and hammer-ons/pull-offs as he demonstrates.
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Practice this simple scale and then move it up the neck by barring your index finger across any fret to discover other bluesy scales and riffs.
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Basic Piano Improv
Learn how to improvise on the piano! This is a great video tutorial on how to choose random notes and apply basic left hand chords to them to create improvised songs. Notice how he uses only one finger on the right hand each time and then concentrates on the three finger chord with the left hand to match it.
With this basic pattern in mind you can move around anywhere on the keyboard and sound great doing it! Improv doesn't have to be complicated, you just need to pick out notes and match any type of corresponding chord to it.
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With this basic pattern in mind you can move around anywhere on the keyboard and sound great doing it! Improv doesn't have to be complicated, you just need to pick out notes and match any type of corresponding chord to it.
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Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe" Guitar Solo Slowed Down
Listen to the classic solo for "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix. It sounds like it's all over the place, right? Now watch the video demonstration below and pay close attention to where his hand moves around on the fretboard...it's actually staying in almost the same place between the 13th and 15th frets the entire time!
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The solo for "Hey Joe" is no doubt musically brilliant, but it's also actually quite simple. This video slows it way down for you and shows you the exact fingering positions for the entire solo including hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, etc. This is a great way to learn the correct notes before you begin to speed it up. Take the time to hit all of the notes and then continue to add in more of the vibrato and slides.
I'm sharing this video not only because it can teach you how to play "Hey Joe" with complete accuracy but also because it can teach you the fundamentals of soloing on the electric guitar. Although you can make it sound like there's a lot going on, you don't always have to be all over the neck. Keep it simple at first, learn to really work a solo between just a few frets and soon enough you'll be shredding like one of the greats!
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How to Read Piano Sheet Music
This video provides a visually detailed introduction into reading sheet music on the piano. This lesson is intended for beginners on the piano and those who are new to reading sheet music.
Pay close attention to where the notes are located on the music staff. As you can see, note names move up the scale alphabetically as you move up the staff. After watching this video lesson, you should be more familiar with music notes and their positions on the piano keyboard and music staff.
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Pay close attention to where the notes are located on the music staff. As you can see, note names move up the scale alphabetically as you move up the staff. After watching this video lesson, you should be more familiar with music notes and their positions on the piano keyboard and music staff.
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How to Play Lead Electric Blues Guitar
How to the lead blues guitarists do it, they make it look so easy!? -- Here's how.
This is an excellent video tutorial on soloing the blues in the style of BB King on the electric guitar. Blues soloing is comprised of various blues chords (which he demonstrates) and rhythms along with fills and solo licks made over those chords.
What I mean by "solo licks made over those chords" is positioning your hand as if you were to play a chord and then hitting notes which are a part of the pentatonic scale which makes up the chord. Put more simply, you just hit notes which sound appropriate to the chord (typically one or two frets up from the fret you are basing the bar of the chord on). This will take some practice to learn which notes sound right for the chord and which do not if you are unfamiliar with music theory.
Practice the different chord shapes and blues licks that he employs and then begin adding in some vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs and exaggerated bending. After you begin to feel more comfortable, start creating your own licks over chord patterns and see what you can come up with. This will help you to develop a more "improvisational" ear which is key to blues soloing.
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