Archive for November, 2009
Thumb Piano. Ages: 3 Years & Up. Dimensions: 5.75″ L x 7.5″ W x 1.75″ H. Made by Schoenhut. The Schoenhut Thumb Piano has twelve metal tongues or keys. It is primarily a percussion rhythm instrument. Simple songs are easily tapped out using only your thumbs. It is tuned to the C key. Each instrument is handcrafted, serialized and signed by the artist. The thumb piano or mbira is easy to play and has a quiet soothing sound. By gently striking the ends of the keys with your thumbs, you can play familiar melodies and rhythms or improvise your own. It is a fun instrument to play since anything you play on it sounds good.
The Schoenhut 8 Note Thumb Piano has eight metal tongues or keys. Rhythmic melodies can be easily tapped out by gently striking the ends of the keys with your thumbs. The thumb piano or Mbira is simple to play and has a quiet soothing sound. By gently striking the ends of the keys with your thumbs, you can play familiar melodies and rhythms or improvise your own. It is tuned to the pentatonic scale (wind chime scale). It is a fun instrument to play and the tuning makes it possible for even the most inexperienced players to produce pleasant music on the first try.
I’ve been playing piano for eight years now and I feel as though I haven’t learned enough popular piano songs. I’m looking for songs that everyone knows! IE: Piano Man by Billy Joel, Mountain King, Ode to Joy, Entertainer…. Just piano songs that everyone’s heard before (even if they don’t know the name…) I’m looking for mainly classical songs.
Liebestraum by Franz Liszt
Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart
Four Seasons by Vivaldi
I need a cool piano song for an elementary school talent show. It can be any speed, and be any difficulty (but it must be physically possible to play) It can’t be part of a song, unless it is good without the other parts (eg. Through The Fire And The Flames has a boring piano part).
Links to videos and sheet music are not needed, but are good.
OH OH OH !
River Flows In You – Yiruma
good luck 
is so amazing and beautiful though.
I learned how to play the right, that’s all though.
the MOST beautiful song ever.
Learn it, Love it.
The Schoenhut Thumb Piano has twelve metal tongues or keys. It is primarily a percussion rhythm instrument. Simple songs are easily tapped out using only your thumbs. It is tuned to the C key. Each instrument is handcrafted serialized and signed by the artist. The thumb piano or mbira is easy to play and has a quiet soothing sound. By gently striking the ends of the keys with your thumbs you can play familiar melodies and rhythms or improvise your own. It is a fun instrument to play since anything you play on it sounds good. * Materials: Birch Plywood * Ages: 3 Years and Up * Piano Dimensions: 7.5″” length x 5.7″” width x 1.8″” height * Piano Weight: 12 ounces * Also available in cherry maple red green & purple * Satisfaction Guaranteed! * Brand new!
Played at Carnegie Hall by internationally acclaimed concert pianist Margaret Leng Tan, Schoenhut’s Traditional Spinet is a musical instrument of highest quality. Publicized in the New York Times, this is the only toy piano ever played at Carnegie Hall. Certain to enhance your child’s love of music with its endearing melodic tones.Chromatically tuned, the lovely chime-like notes are produced by little hammers striking precision-ground, German steel music rods (versus the conventional taut wires used in full-sized models).The Schoenhut’s Traditional Spinet is made of Birch, Maple and Hardboard woods. Schoenhut’s® Learning System, with its play-by-color teaching method, makes playing simple and fun. A removable color strip fits behind the keys to guide small fingers from chord to chord. The chart also works on adult keyboards, since keys on Schoenhut® toy pianos are of corresponding width. This teaches children proper “finger stretch” from the very beginning. The accompanying Songbook contains a collection of familiar tunes. This Learning System has been specially designed to build a child’s confidence and develop basic playing skills.
Music, lights and a mirror make playtime groove as piano keys introduce to colors and shapes in English and Spanish.
I mean besides the style. Do they sound any different? I’m thinking of buying a baldwin piano, but I don’t know if there is any more of a difference between the two pianos besides the style. I really want to learn how to play piano though, so I am. I’d like a baby grand, but most are way too expensive, If I get one, I’m gonna look for something in the 20k-25k zone.
Going against most of your answers. A professional (45" or more) vertical (upright) piano is going to be better than a small grand (5′ 6" and under) because the string length on the upright will be longer, and the area of the soundboard will be MUCH greater. Small grands are most often sold as furniture, not as serious professional instruments. There are exceptions to the rule; the Baldwin R1 (5′ 8") is a very respectable small grand; it also has a price tag of $48,000. The Steinway M (5′ 7") though, I’m not particularly thrilled with the S (5′ 1"); the Mason & Hamlin B (5′ 4") is perhaps the smallest piano I would consider professional quality in terms of build and sound.
For uprights I’d look to Kawai, Yamaha, Charles R. Walter, August Förster, Mason & Hamlin as top tier pianos.
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I’m not sure exactly what notes and fills to use when accompanying myself singing songs such as "Old Time Rock and Roll" and other similar rock/pop songs. I am an advanced pianist technically, but my improvisation skills are not as strong. I understand and know which chords to play for the songs, but I don’t completely understand which "bluesy" notes fit and when to use them when doing piano fills and soloing to make the piano accompaniment more interesting. Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated.
Using pentatonic scales are a great way to get an improv, bluesy feel.
In C:
C Eb F F# G Bb
1 m3 4 a4/d5 5 m7.
(Oh i see Kyles got the same scale!)
You can literally play anything with those notes and it will come out bluesy! Even playing it as a scale with some syncopation sounds good.