Piano Clues

Every three months the members of the Adult Beginners Forum over at Piano World get together for an informal recital.

Everyone who wishes to participate performs and records a solo piano piece and then uploads it to a special website.

On the day of the recital, all entries are made public on the Piano World Forums.

Last month we had our 10th recital, and it was awesome (as always )!

With 63 participants, this was our biggest recital ever. People from all over the world, old and young, ranging in experience from complete beginners to seasoned players, created over 3 and a half hours of piano music.

Any style of music goes, as long as it’s played on a piano. Last time we had classical, jazz, new age, pop, you name it.

Visit the recital here

You can also listen directly to all the tunes using the online streaming player.

Go check it out!

And if you play the piano, be sure to send in a recording for recital 11 on August 15!

Work and other things are taking up too much of my time these days to do any writing for this site.

However, here is a list of topics that I intend to cover in the future, if time permits:

• How to recognize chords from sheet music
• What are modes?
• How to put a Flash-based music-player on your own site
• How to make a leadsheet in Lilypond
• How to make a full piano score in Lilypond
• How to read leadsheets
• Playing keyboard with auto-accompaniment
• Beginning jazz
• Learning songs from MIDI files
• Chord voicings
• Quartal voicings
• Composing and improvising
• Using Transcribe!
• Chord substitutions
• Tritone substitutions
• Beginning blues
• Modulation
• Rhythm changes
• Polychords
• Walking (jazz) bass
• Ostinato patterns

Stay tuned!