MusicBasics4Keyboard

MusicBasics4Keyboard

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MusicBasics4Keyboard episodes

  • Super Easy Disney Lesson for Casio SA-76

    Learn to play or teach with this sample lesson. Be Our Guest is the name of the song from Beauty and the Beast. The songbook is Super Easy from Hal Leonard publishers. The keyboard used for the lesson is the Casio SA-76. Thanks for watching.

    5 min
  • Volley Ball and Beethoven's Adagio Sonata No. 3

    Due to my work schedule as a former college student, practice time was limited to a few days a week. Whenever I sat down in a practice room at the college, I became LOST in time for 2-3 hours. While trying to get up from the hard bench after each session, I felt stabbing pain from a hernia after sitting in one position. I told myself I would learn to live with the pain even if it meant walking with a cane. No one in the music department knew why Darlene was in practice rooms for long hours esp. on weekends. Other music students who lived off campus practiced at home. I was also a commuter. I didn't own a piano. This was my secret.

    Today, I own an upright piano, three Yamaha keyboards, one Casio SA-76, two accordions, one guitar, harmonicas, and a xylophone. Moderation concerning practice time for music students is the main idea in this video. When you are kind to your body it will be kind to you. Try to take breaks every 30 minutes. I do. Thanks for watching.

    5 min
  • Be Our Guest 4Labor Day with Easy Play

    Learn to play this song for keyboard starting today from Beauty and the Beast. Memorize the lyrics and gird your loins if you plan to play outdoors for friends and/or family. Three-to-five songs; keep it short. This is your time to shine. if you are also the host. Bring the food items out in large coolers with wheels and return indoors the same way. Maybe even sunblock, lip balm, sun hats, and golf umbrellas for guests in case of rain. Consider brown paper bags for cookie-type dessert items for guests to take home. Make them up ahead of time. Store in a different cooler ready to go upon departure. Lastly, plan to bring it all INDOORS quickly due to rain in 3-5 large coolers. Thanks for watching.

    4 min
  • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy with EZ Play Today

    This was a TEST to see if the song could be learned in one day with one chord. Students, when you "make up your mind" to do something, there's a good chance you will succeed with EZ Play Today songs in C major by Hal Leonard publishers. We'll add more chords over the next few days. Happy July 4th; time to celebrate. Thanks for watching.

    3 min
  • Super Easy Beauty and the Beast with Three Chords

    There are three major chords here chosen from many more in this "Super Easy Songbook" arrangement in C major by Hal Leonard publisher. Learn to play the melody first and then bring in C, F, and G major chords. Play for 30 minutes a day, work on fingering and watch the tempo begin to increase. You will amaze yourself. Heard in this video is the Yamaha PSR-E463. Thanks for watching.

    4 min
  • Waltz of the Flowers E463 with EZ Play Today

    Put together your song list, dear friends, with arrangements by Hal Leonard. Choose at least five songs you would like to play before a small audience of friends and/or family for this coming July Fourth. Include two patriotic songs. Videotape each song first. Your BEST song should be played last. Perform with sheet music if necessary. Thanks for watching.

    4 min
  • EZ Play Today Happy Trails for 4th of July and Song List

    Here to help keyboard players prepare a song list for the upcoming July 4th holiday with music by Hal Leonard. Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light how PROUD we will be with a song list bright gleaming. And the rockets red flare, my heart bursting prepared, oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free, and the home of the BRAVE. Start now!

    4 min
  • EZ Play Today IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW

    Looking to help keyboard players sight read easy play sheet music. Any song, any time, anywhere. Played on a Yamaha PSR-E360. Settings: Style No. 051 Soul. Voice No. 034 Rock Organ. Tempo 106. Many thanks for watching.

    5 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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