MusicBasics4Keyboard

MusicBasics4Keyboard

By Darlene DrandaMusicMusic Commentary
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MusicBasics4Keyboard episodes

  • Easy Play Jingle Bells with 3 Chords

    This is a popular American Christmas song written by J.S. Pierpont in 1850. Note to music students: never give up. Work on songs you know by heart. The third time is the charm. Merry Christmas and best wishes for a blessed and prosperous New Year. Thanks for watching.

    4 min
  • Super Easy Little Brown Jug with Casio SA-76

    Sheet music comes with this $88 Casio keyboard from Sweetwater. Need more help? Ask interested young children and start pressing buttons. "Little Brown Jug" is a song written in 1869 by Joseph Eastburn Winner, originally published in Philadelphia with the author listed as Winner's middle name "Eastburn". The Little Brown Jug is a harness race for three-year-old pacing standardbred horses hosted by the Delaware County Agricultural Society since 1946 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds racetrack in Delaware, Ohio. Wanna know more about this song? Go to Wikipedia.org.

    4 min
  • Brahms Lullaby with Trumpet & Guitar

    Taste of Mexico with guitar backup, trumpet leading the melody and sheet music from the Classical Hits EZ Play songbook by Hal Leonard. Letter names inside each note. Just add a palm tree. We're dreaming about sand and surf within one day's drive for Thanksgiving. If you're making travel plans, remember to bring a keyboard or ANY musical instrument like an accordion to pick up the pace and liven things up. Thanks for watching.

    3 min
  • Brahms Waltz Op., No 15 in G Major

    This video contains two easy play arrangements in G Major from sheetmusicdirect and C Major in Hal Leonard's EZ-Play Today Classical Hits songbook. For beginners familiar or unfamiliar with this waltz, I strongly recommend playing the melody first, one note at a time, and then adding the left hand notes or chords or both. This video is about learning to read easy play sheet music arrangements from Johannes Brahms.

    4 min
  • Super Easy Beethoven's Joyful, Joyful Melody

    Thanks for watching. Have a great week ahead learning to play this beautiful melody with two chords from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Add more chords over time and enjoy this popular classical composition with Easy Play sheet music by Hal Leonard Publishing.

    4 min
  • Holiday Songs from Rehearsal to Showtime!

    Let's put together this year's holiday playlist dear friends. Our friends and family members are eager to see us at the keyboard, piano or accordion and HEAR how well we play in THE ZONE no matter what the level. Five easy songs should be nailed down by Thanksgiving just eight weeks away. One of the songs should be used as a backing track when you play another instrument. Bring along the lyrics for people to sing all five songs. Thank you for watching.

    5 min
  • Liebestraum in G Major with Arpeggio-Chords

    This is preparation work for the left hand before playing with both hands. A broken chord is called an arpeggio. Arpeggio is an Italian word meaning "in the style of a harp." A triad is a three-note chord. Watch the closing credits about musical terms. Thanks for watching.

    7 min
  • Liebestraum by Franz Liszt in G Major

    Liebesträume (German for Dreams of Love) is a set of three solo piano works (S. 541/R. 211) by Franz Liszt, published in 1850. Both spellings are correct. Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath. This is about playing along with the built-in song function in the Yamaha PSR-E360. The sheet music for this abridged arrangement is available at MusicNotes. Please visit other online sites for sheet music in the original A flat major key. Thank you for watching.

    4 min
  • Easy Smetana Die Moldau Classical Favorite

    Hope you play-along with this built in song from Yamaha for piano or keyboard. Want to learn more about this composition? Great! Spend time reading the sheet music available for download at MuseScore in E minor. Nearly all of my songbooks and sheet music are purchased online from Hal Leonard, MuseScore, SheetmusicPlus, Thrift Books and SheetmusicDirect, a Hal Leonard site. You'll need a computer to download the PDF file and print it out instantly, a great time saver for PC owners like me. Thanks for watching

    4 min
  • What Happens on Porch Day worldwide?

    Music on the Porch day is an annual outdoors world-wide event for people of all ages who can play a musical instrument or SING. Recordings are submitted in advance on Facebook, other media sites and YouTube for approval. For this event, I play a children's song in C major with my Yamaha PSR-E463 on the front lawn.
    Twinkle Twinkle is one of the prerecorded songs that come with the Casio SA-76 and Yamaha keyboards that young children in my part of the world like and can sing along with at the drop of a hat. I encourage you to videotape lessons that overtime should help overcome the fear about playing for friends or in public. Video or audiotape reviews are very helpful regarding progress and building self-confidence. Start now to prepare for Porch Day in 2024. Thanks for watching.

    6 min

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Greetings from North America. In 1990 I graduated from a small college in New Jersey with a music program where I majored in piano, attended concerts in NYC, and watched my first opera with Luciano…

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