What type of keyboard are you using?...... would you ever consider a Kawai VPC1 controller with virtual pianos, like the Fazioli, Steinway, Bösendorfer, etc. Just a little ear candy for us your fantastic audience! 😉👍🏼
Oh I know, it's an ancient keyboard (10+ years old). Top of the line when I got it, but it's starting to show its age! Upgrading won't be too far in the future.
The videos are really helpful. Just wanted to ask a query...In the sheet music, the straight vertical line attached to the note is sometimes upward & sometimes downwards. What is the meaning of that means how to interpret it ?
Late to the party, but I find this part of music notation pretty cool. Part of the reason for the stems pointing upwards or downwards is a mere convention used for tidiness of notation: notes above the middle line of a staff ( b in treble clef, d in bass clef) have their stem pointing upwards, notes below the middle line go downwards. Notes on the middle line can go either way. Since this is just a rule of thumb, if doing it this way interferes with readability, you can have the stems point the other way if that makes things clearer. Now the other reason actually /does/ have some kind of meaning for the way you play, although to my knowledge it's not a hard-and-fast rule of music notation as much as it is another kind of convention. It's used to visually distinguish two or more 'voices' (call them melodies for simplicity's sake) written on the same staff. Now with piano you won't encounter this until you're pretty advanced, since we use two staffs for even the most basic pieces. But consider a guitar: its music often has a bass part and a melody on top of it, much like a piano, but it uses just one staff (the treble) to notate all of that. How do guitarists distinguish between these two melodies? One way is to notate the bass part with the stems pointing down, and the melody with the stems pointing up. The same applies for piano, when a piece calls for us to play two melodies with the same hand.
In Light and Dark, in the last bar of the second line you play 'B flat' but on the pdf it is written as a 'B''. Love the channel, Just letting you know o/
It's a late answer but in case other people are struggling with that, I believe that when you flatten a note, it's "effective" for the rest of the line so you don't have to mark it again.
That sounds right, but there's a flat symbol next to the A flat both times, so I think it would be more consistent to also display the flat symbol for both B flat notes on the 2nd line
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concordo totally with that frase my chapa
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These videos are really helpful, thank you!
what a good lesson c:
can you please include more beginner songs in each scale love your videos thank you
What type of keyboard are you using?...... would you ever consider a Kawai VPC1 controller with virtual pianos, like the Fazioli, Steinway, Bösendorfer, etc. Just a little ear candy for us your fantastic audience! 😉👍🏼
Oh I know, it's an ancient keyboard (10+ years old). Top of the line when I got it, but it's starting to show its age! Upgrading won't be too far in the future.
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The videos are really helpful. Just wanted to ask a query...In the sheet music, the straight vertical line attached to the note is sometimes upward & sometimes downwards. What is the meaning of that means how to interpret it ?
Prashant Kulkarni it doesn’t mean anything actually just so you can see them clearly
Late to the party, but I find this part of music notation pretty cool. Part of the reason for the stems pointing upwards or downwards is a mere convention used for tidiness of notation: notes above the middle line of a staff ( b in treble clef, d in bass clef) have their stem pointing upwards, notes below the middle line go downwards. Notes on the middle line can go either way. Since this is just a rule of thumb, if doing it this way interferes with readability, you can have the stems point the other way if that makes things clearer. Now the other reason actually /does/ have some kind of meaning for the way you play, although to my knowledge it's not a hard-and-fast rule of music notation as much as it is another kind of convention. It's used to visually distinguish two or more 'voices' (call them melodies for simplicity's sake) written on the same staff. Now with piano you won't encounter this until you're pretty advanced, since we use two staffs for even the most basic pieces. But consider a guitar: its music often has a bass part and a melody on top of it, much like a piano, but it uses just one staff (the treble) to notate all of that. How do guitarists distinguish between these two melodies? One way is to notate the bass part with the stems pointing down, and the melody with the stems pointing up. The same applies for piano, when a piece calls for us to play two melodies with the same hand.
There is an error in the sheets in the sixth measure where the b flat is not flattened
True that! I noticed that!
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Where do you get the sheet music you used for heart and soul?? Thanks!
I played it off-the-cuff!
In Light and Dark, in the last bar of the second line you play 'B flat' but on the pdf it is written as a 'B''. Love the channel, Just letting you know o/
Same for the Beethoven Song, You play 3 flats, but the music shows 1 flat and 2 normal (In multiple places).
It's a late answer but in case other people are struggling with that, I believe that when you flatten a note, it's "effective" for the rest of the line so you don't have to mark it again.
That sounds right, but there's a flat symbol next to the A flat both times, so I think it would be more consistent to also display the flat symbol for both B flat notes on the 2nd line
Way to go coach that was hot. Thanks for sharing