MusicBasics4Keyboard

Happy holidays! Time to test your performance skills. Go to any store (big box) that sells keyboards. Walk right up, sit right down and play one E-Z play song from memory for 2-3 minutes. That's it. Do it. Thank you for listening.

Great advice! Thanks for listening.

Who is Jazer Lee? Learn more as he plays the Bach Prelude in C Major. "I’m here to help you accelerate your piano learning through a fun and practical approach, no fluff. I love creating Youtube videos and writing blogs to help fellow pianists around the world improve their craft. I went to a conservatory to study classical piano and also have my Associate and Licentiate diplomas. I hope I can be helpful to you through my blogs or YT videos."

Are you wanting to play classical pieces but don't know where to start? After about 1-2 years of music training, I recommend playing these 5 beginner pieces. They are beautiful, famous and fun pieces to study. I also discuss briefly the educational benefits of playing these pieces.   Watch Part 2 (Another 5 beginner pieces): https://youtu.be/BHsZDh4BIGo PS. I use the word 'beginner' loosely here. In an ideal situation, my students would learn many other simpler works before these 5. But not everyone has the time to dedicate themselves to a strict and long program of piano study. The point of this video is simply to show you some potential works that might interest you, whether you play seriously or for leisure. Good luck! Thanks for listening.

A broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes. A broken chord may repeat some of the notes from the chord and span one or more octaves. An arpeggio (Italian: [arˈpeddʒo]) is a type of broken chord, in which the notes that compose a chord are played or sung in a rising or descending order. Source: Wikipedia. Thank you for listening.

Keep a journal of songs you'd like to learn to play. 1 day ago (edited)

Hey Jazer, those are some great tips; thanks! I have to disagree with you on part of your Tip #3. I don't think the money aspect of it is the least bit motivational for me. If I'm not in the mood to practice, the fact that it's costing me money is not going to change my mood, and I see that money as having already been spent (literally, since my school charges my credit card at the beginning of the month for the month's lessons). What DOES motivate me (the second part of your Tip #3) is the thought that I am going to play five pieces for my teacher three days from now, and if I don't practice, I AM GOING TO EMBARRASS MYSELF and generally be very unhappy the whole time I am there. Whereas, if I practice these pieces like crazy, she will be happy, and I will be happy! Motivation successfully located! :-)

Another comment (among many for Jazer Lee's YouTube video). First you played river flows in you . I don't know the second one. Then you played Turkish march. The last one was moonlight sonata 3rd movement.

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0:47 1: River flows in you - Yiruma 2: Comptine d'un autre ete - Yann Tiersen 3: Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca, and 4. Moonlight sonata 3rd movement - Beethoven

In the back of each Hal Leonard E-Z Play Today song book is a chord speller chart. Refer to this chart for help playing each song. Music arrangements are shown here in their most commonly used chord positions. Thanks for listening.

"Jingle Bell Rock" is an American popular Christmas song first released by Bobby Helms in 1957. It has received frequent airplay in the United States during every Christmas season since then. "Jingle Bell Rock" was composed by Joseph Carleton Beal (1900–1967) and James Ross Boothe (1917–1976), although both Helms and session guitarist on the song Hank Garland disputed this (see Authorship controversy section below). Beal was a Massachusetts-born public relations professional and longtime resident of South Ocean Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Boothe was an American writer in the advertising business. Source: Wikipedia. Thank you for listening.

This is about a class offering for marriage enrichment offered by a local church. It's about true love and finding a spark to light up our lives. Debby Boone. Debby Boone knows she's had a remarkable life being a part of Hollywood royalty. The singer, best known for her hit song “You Light Up My Life,” is the daughter of singer Pat Boone and has been married to Gabriel Ferrer, the son of Rosemary Clooney, since 1979.

You Light Up My Life

Debby Boone

So many nights I'd sit by my window

And you light up my life

Rollin' at sea, adrift on the water

'Cause you light up my life

'Cause you, you light up my life

It can't be wrong

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Brooks Joe

You Light Up My Life lyrics © A-n Music Corp., Curb Songs

Debby Boone. "You Light Up My Life" is one of her most popular songs released in 1977. Debby Boone was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the third of four daughters born to singer-actor Pat Boone and Shirley Foley Boone, daughter of country music star Red Foley. When Boone was 14 years old, she began touring with her parents and three sisters: Cherry, Lindy, and Laury. Thank you for listening.

This episode is about learning to play church music and large print sheet music. Thank you for listening.

This is about music, dear listeners and conquering boredom while learning new songs. The melody continues to be from Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas in C Major. Trying reading from a gift catalog while practicing. That's what I'm doing here while playing my Yamaha keyboard. Future episodes will pick up where we left off and adding major chords. Thanks for listening.