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Patience and repetition are essential for learning to play a musical instrument. This song in C Major is on page 3 of Alfred's Basic Piano Library, Level 1A. Merry Christmas! Thanks for listening.

Such a find! We learn treble and base clefs so we know how to read sheet music faster and easier. Locate this book to test your playing level TODAY if you're a beginner. Alfred's Basic Piano Library, Level 1A: Merry Christmas!

A clef is a musical-notation symbol at the beginning of a music staff. It indicates the pitch of the notes on the staff. Clefs were originally letters, identifying letter-named pitches, that were added to one or more of the staff's lines (thus providing a "key" to their identity). The treble clef is a tool musicians use to notate pitches above middle C on the piano. The treble clef is also known as G clef because it describes the location of G, specifically the G above middle C, or G4. Thanks for listening.

This is great advice from Jazer Lee to improve your piano/keyboard technique. No. 1 is practicing and playing too fast. Thanks for listening.

"Every time you practice piano your brain transfers your knowledge and experience into long term memory." Sleep is critical. "Huge achievements are made up of small achievements along the way." Amen 

Playing with both hands. Master each hand well before putting them together says Jazer Lee in today's YouTube video. Thank you for listening.

During the 1960s, I drove a black, 8 cylinder, 4-door, standard transmission, gas hog with bench seats. Leaded gasoline was 30 cents a gallon at the time in the USA. Even though I lived just ten minutes from the office, I was late every morning. There was free parking on the street next to the building. Each morning I was greeted by the head of the accounting department. Her name was Martha. We worked quietly side by side throughout the day filing, answering phones and taking messages for salesmen. Those were the days. Fond memories.

Black, 4-door, standard transmission, bench seats, 8 cylinder, gas hog. Leaded gasoline 30 cents a gallon in the USA. Fond memories. Thanks for listening.

Turn the dial up with more practice time on sight reading. Amaze yourself with a journal of your progress. O Holy Night by Adolphe Adam, a French composer of grand opera. Adolphe Charles Adam was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle and Le corsaire, his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau and Si j'étais roi and his Christmas carol "Minuit, chrétiens!". Born July 24, 1803, Paris, France—died May 3, 1856, Paris.

Giselle is a romantic ballet ("ballet-pantomime") in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam. Considered a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon, it was first performed by the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris, France, on 28 June 1841, with Italian ballerina Carlotta Grisi as Giselle. The ballet was an unqualified triumph. Giselle became hugely popular and was staged at once across Europe, Russia, and the United States.

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Using Chord I, V, VI and IV (1, 5, 6 and 4), you can create a thousand songs. Learn to play these 4 piano chords, mix them around and create your own piano chord progression. Source: Learn Piano with Jazer Lee. Published on June 16, 2001 - YouTube channel. Thanks for listening.

Choose one song from your playlist to work on for New Year's Eve. One song using both hands without looking at the keys. We can do this. You're the best. Believe in yourself. Thank you for listening.