The ABC"s of Piano Books
Contemporary music, slow music and even blues and jazz are one of the favorite tunes all over the world.
The uniqueness and sensibility of the tunes are made possible through the tickling of a musical instrument - the piano.
So, if you feel like playing the piano is your calling, you better practice and learn its basics.
If you are really interested to learn about piano it would be great if you are going to check its history and read some articles about it.
It has been the most popular keyboard instrument for almost two centuries.
Classified technically as a board zither - an instrument in which strings are passed overboard that functions as a resonator.
The piano belongs to the DULCIMER family, in contradistinction to the harpsichord and the clavichord.
Nowadays, electric piano are commonly used because of its high value and because it is open for manipulation.
Now, you might wonder once you open your piano book, you see a strange S-form or an inverted C-form before the notes.
Technically, it represents on what pitch you are going to use.
If t is an S-form (called G-clef), that means you are going to use a high note, and if it is an inverted C-form (called the F-clef), then you are going to use a low note, lower than the G-clef.
You should know that in every piano instrument, the first white key starts at C-note, followed by D and so on.
If you picture it out, it goes like this: C, D, E, F, G, A, B.
we call it the seven notes.
Now of your piano has 36 keys, then your C-note has five octaves.
What is an octave? Octaves are the notes with the same tone but of different pitch.
The best example of this is the voice SOPRANO.
You might wonder what is the difference between an ordinary soprano to the higher soprano.
Well, they are just the same, they are in G-note but they are on different octaves or pitch.
Let's go to these black keys on the piano, the ones that are above those white keys.
These black keys are the flat and sharp notes.
The flat notes (b) are the lower notes.
Example, if you want to know what is an E-flat, you go to the 3rdwhite key, that's the E-note, now the E-flat there is the 2nd black key, means you go backwards from your original note.
On the other hand, the sharp (#) note is an increased tone of a note, means you go forward.
Another example, F #, you go to the 4th key, that's the F-note.
The F# there is the 3rd black key.
That's the higher form of F.
These sharp and flat notes are applicable to all notes and to their octaves, of the SAME patterns.
You should familiarize every terms in your piano book for you to understand their uses before going to that Mozart-like symphony.
But if you're gifted, you're way to go far.
The uniqueness and sensibility of the tunes are made possible through the tickling of a musical instrument - the piano.
So, if you feel like playing the piano is your calling, you better practice and learn its basics.
If you are really interested to learn about piano it would be great if you are going to check its history and read some articles about it.
It has been the most popular keyboard instrument for almost two centuries.
Classified technically as a board zither - an instrument in which strings are passed overboard that functions as a resonator.
The piano belongs to the DULCIMER family, in contradistinction to the harpsichord and the clavichord.
Nowadays, electric piano are commonly used because of its high value and because it is open for manipulation.
Now, you might wonder once you open your piano book, you see a strange S-form or an inverted C-form before the notes.
Technically, it represents on what pitch you are going to use.
If t is an S-form (called G-clef), that means you are going to use a high note, and if it is an inverted C-form (called the F-clef), then you are going to use a low note, lower than the G-clef.
You should know that in every piano instrument, the first white key starts at C-note, followed by D and so on.
If you picture it out, it goes like this: C, D, E, F, G, A, B.
we call it the seven notes.
Now of your piano has 36 keys, then your C-note has five octaves.
What is an octave? Octaves are the notes with the same tone but of different pitch.
The best example of this is the voice SOPRANO.
You might wonder what is the difference between an ordinary soprano to the higher soprano.
Well, they are just the same, they are in G-note but they are on different octaves or pitch.
Let's go to these black keys on the piano, the ones that are above those white keys.
These black keys are the flat and sharp notes.
The flat notes (b) are the lower notes.
Example, if you want to know what is an E-flat, you go to the 3rdwhite key, that's the E-note, now the E-flat there is the 2nd black key, means you go backwards from your original note.
On the other hand, the sharp (#) note is an increased tone of a note, means you go forward.
Another example, F #, you go to the 4th key, that's the F-note.
The F# there is the 3rd black key.
That's the higher form of F.
These sharp and flat notes are applicable to all notes and to their octaves, of the SAME patterns.
You should familiarize every terms in your piano book for you to understand their uses before going to that Mozart-like symphony.
But if you're gifted, you're way to go far.
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