MusicBasics4Keyboard

MusicBasics4Keyboard

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MusicBasics4Keyboard episodes

  • EZ Play Today Battle Hymn of the Republic

    This publisher can take keyboard players from nowhere to somewhere in one day. Proof positive that dreams can come true with Hal Leonard EZ Play Today songbooks. The Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-640 is played for this video. Style No. 002, 8 Beats Modern. Tempo 92. The JVC Everio HD Memory camera was used. Many thanks for watching.

    5 min
  • Super Easy Play My Country 'Tis of Thee Patriotic Song

    Indoor hobbies like playing a musical instrument should make us happy and connected to the world around us. Sight reading, learning new songs and regular practice of 30 minutes or more is necessary. Included in this video are all settings for the Yamaha E463 and reading note values for interested keyboard players. Legato style used here means smooth and flowing without breaks between notes. Thank you for watching.

    3 min
  • Your First Piano/Keyboard Performance in Public

    Do you remember what happened before, after and during your first performance? Who attended? Was there a gathering afterwards with food and beverages? This video is about what happened during my first classical piano performance in college. Thank you for watching.

    3 min
  • Easy Play Carly Simon for Keyboard

    This lesson is about a song by Carly Simon in C major from the movie Working Girl. Lady in Red by Chris DeBurgh is also in this movie and on the soundtrack along with Let the River Run by Carly Simon. Play along with the soundtrack and sheet music to increase your playing skills. Performed on my Yamaha PSR-E463. Thanks for watching.

    4 min
  • EZ Play TODAY Songs for Memorial Day

    Fire up your ambitions to play keyboard this holiday with sheet music from Hal Leonard. Salute our troops with music and grilled hot dogs while you join in with your own hit parade of songs. Be careful with backyard fireworks. Just saying. Thank you for watching.

    2 min
  • Easy Play Carly Simon Music with Groove Creator

    This is Let the River Run from the movie Working Girl in C major. Words and music by Carly Simon. Here are the settings used with the Yamaha PSR-E463. Groove Creator No. 004, UK ELEC. STYLE: No. 001, Brit Rock. VOICE: No. 002, Oct Piano. Tempo 123 beats. WORKING GIRL PLOT: Savvy New York City receptionist Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) gives her conniving boss, Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), an excellent business tip, but Katharine simply steals the idea without giving due credit to her secretary. After Katharine winds up in the hospital with an injured leg, Tess decides to exact revenge. Pretending to be her boss, Tess initiates a major deal with an investment broker (Harrison Ford) -- but things turn ugly after Katharine finds out what Tess has been up to.

    LYRICS: Let the river run, Let all the dreamers wake the nation, Come, the New Jerusalem. NEXT: Silver cities rise, The morning lights the streets that lead them, And sirens call them on with a song. NEXT: It's asking for the taking, Trembling, shaking, Oh, my heart is aching. NEXT: We're coming to the edge, Running on the water, Coming through the fog, Your sons and daughters. MORE LYRICS ONLINE: We the great and small, Stand on a star, And blaze a trail of desire, Through the darkening dawn. Thanks for watching.

    2 min
  • Nobody Does It Better E-Z Play for Mother's Day

    Happy Mother's Day!! Carly Simon was raised in an upper-class musical home. Her father was a cofounder of the Simon & Schuster publishing house and a pianist, and her mother was a singer and civil rights activist. Simon and her two sisters all pursued music; her brother became a photographer. Simon quit Sarah Lawrence College to perform with her sister Lucy as the Simon Sisters. In 1966, guided by Bob Dylan’s manager, Albert Grossman, and accompanied by members of the Band, she began a later-aborted solo album. In 1977 she released “Nobody Does It Better,” the theme song to the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me.

    2 min
  • Easy Play 4Piano- Poison Apple Clue

    This song is from Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. This is my tribute song to music students, friends, followers and animal lovers. Song title: Some Day My Prince Will Come. Who am I? I am a college-trained classical music educator and mature vocalist with many years of public performance. My method deals with sound and symbol, the language of music for piano and keyboard.

    STORYLINE
    The Grimm fairy tale gets a Technicolor treatment in Disney's first animated feature. Jealous of Snow White's beauty, the wicked queen orders the murder of her innocent stepdaughter, but later discovers that Snow White is still alive and hiding in a cottage with seven friendly little miners. Disguising herself as a hag, the queen brings a poisoned apple to Snow White, who falls into a death-like sleep that can be broken only by a kiss from the prince.

    2 min
  • Super Easy Play Bella Notte PEP TALK

    This is about putting it all together for keyboard players. Slow down. You may have heard this from other teachers. It works. Take it easy especially on day one with new songs or songs you know. Listen to the music as you play. Listen to the music in your head. They need to come together and will with daily practice or some sort of practice schedule. Thanks for watching.

    4 min
  • Super Easy Play Belle Notte

    This episode is about fingering, chords and videotaping. More to come in the next episode as we learn to play this song from the movies with sheet music published by Hal Leonard. Thank you for watching.

    3 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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