Piano Resources
Compiled by U.B.Rasmussen
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Piano Resources Compiled by U.B.Rasmussen |
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Piano practising Here are some suggestions for planning piano practising. Learn the circle of 5ths (Fig. 14), and the notes (Fig. 30) by heart. Play every day minimum 15-30 min. Put focus on: The 12 scales of the octave (5-10 min): Since there are 12 scales (one for each key in the octave), use a year, a month per scale, to get familiar with: 1. The keys of the scale (Fig. 10) 2. The different chords belonging to the scale, including their inversions (Fig. 3-10 and 12) 3. The principal and relative minor chords for the scale (Fig. 15-16), and the chord progressions in Fig. 17. 4. Practise the arpeggios (Fig. 29) for the scale, as fast as you can Work through the 12 scales in the same succession as the circle of 5ths (C, F, Bb, ...etc.). Warm up and finger exercises (5-10 min): Hanon, Czerny or Bach (classic piano excercises) download the notes here. Improvisation (5-15 min): Pick a left hand chord from the scale you are currently studying. Play the chord as a block or as a melodic succession, in a specific rhythm (you choose which one). Improvise with the right hand, using only keys belonging to the same scale. Do scale progressions with both hands, while keeping the same left-hand pattern and beat. See examples and more details here. Build repertoire (5-20 min): Work on a piece that you would like to have in your repertoire, and choose one you have an opportunity to listen to. Keep on repeating the first few measures until you can play them fluently. Then add a few more measures, and repeat until you can play fluently. In this way, work through the whole piece. This process can take weeks or months. Do not work on more than maximum two different pieces in parallel. Below are links to many music pieces to choose from. You can download a (pdf) work sheet here which covers a month. It follows the approach described above. Under each day, either check, or fill in the amount of minutes, you spent on each listed excersice. |
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Sheet music for viewing and printing
Music theory and interactive exercises
Free video piano lessons Yoke Wong's site offers free video piano lessons for intermediate to advanced players, they are very inspiring to watch:
Willie Myette's site offers excellent free and pay video piano lessons for beginners to advanced players here www.jazzpianolessons.com Nathan Andersen's free video piano lessons: Berklee College of Music has a general site with resources and it also offers free video music lessons: Other resources
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