How would I start to acquire piano students in my area?
Question: I've thought about it, and I think I'd like to start teaching piano as a sideline. How would I start to acquire piano students in my area? What are my options? Please help, all suggestions are helpful. Answer: Put an ad in the local paper under music teachers. Post up a flier in the n ...
- is there anyone else with this problem ? Do I take piano lessons ? How to read sheet music lessons ??
Question: After many years of not playing, 20+, I picked the horn back up...started practicing again...running the scales then picked up some sheet music then I remembered why I laid the horn down...I can't read a lick of sheet music.....I play everything by ear! My wife has to play it on the p ...
tagged: Sheet Music Lessons- HOW DO I GO ABOUT READING SHEET MUSIC?
Question: HOW DO I GO ABOUT READING SHEET MUSIC? Answer: well, you take lessons privately, and/or you get a music degree. private lessons will definitely ensure that you develop the ability to read sheet music. After some amount of time (it's different for different people) you should begin to ...
tagged: Reading Sheet Music- I'm wondering what you would say about the possibility of beginning to play the piano at age 20?
Question: I'm wondering what you would say about the possibility of beginning to play the piano at age 20. I already have some experience playing clarinet and basson. But some people (like my mother - not very encouraging) told me that anyway I probably won't be able to get to the level of bein ...
tagged: Play The Piano- Who's Leo Nadelmann and can he really play piano?
Question: So I was cruising the Appian website last week to see what Sergio Fiorentino recordings were still available and amongst all the rather well-known pianists on their catalog list is some guy named Leo Nadelmann. Is he the label owner's dad or brother-in-law or something...or does this ...
tagged: Play Piano- Can anyone help with an online website that has piano notation?
Question: Can anyone help with an online website that has piano notation? An elderly friend of my mother's wants the piano music for the old song Let Me Be Your Sweetheart but I've yet to find it online. I know there are lots of guitar sites online that provide the notation for free, but I have ...
tagged: Online Piano- What is the best way to learn the piano without taking lessons?
Question: What is the best way to learn the piano without taking lessons? In particular, I would appreciate recommendations of manuals or textbooks. Answer: My dear boy/girl/lad/lass/person (or whatever you prefer), The chances of someone being able to learn the piano without taking lessons are ...
tagged: Learn The Piano- can someone recommend a good self-study way i can learn to play piano?
Question: i've always wanted to learn the keyboard however i have not the money to purchase even a used upright piano!I do have an electronic keyboard with 64 keys though. i looked into piano teachers and the cheapest charged $40/hour which is way beyond my meager financial means! can someone r ...
tagged: Learn Piano- How to tune a piano?
Question: I have got a piano, and I want to tune it myself. Not in order to save money, but I just want to do it myself. I have played piano for more than 25 years and have tuned a lot more simple instruments like guitars and so. I would say that I have well qualified ears. The piano have just ...
tagged: How To Tune A Piano- Why are you learning to play the piano?
Question: I've been taking 75-minute piano lessons weekly for just more than a year. It's a very hard grind but it's going well, given my objectives. My first goal is to play well enough to entertain my grandchildren -- they're barely at the Twinkle stage, so there's time. My second goal is to ...
tagged: How To Play The Piano- Does anyone play piano in a restaurant or bar?
Question: Does anyone play piano in a restaurant or bar? I'm UK based, and used to play (jazz) piano a lot. I've always toyed with the idea of playing dinner jazz in a restaurant as a sideline - both for the joy of entertaining and hopefully to bring in a few extra pennies. Can anyone give any ...
tagged: How To Play Piano- What is the problem and how can I get my Pioneer DVD player to play music and movies?
Question: I have Win98 SE and 2 CD Drives - one is an Asus 50xmax (my E: drive), and the other is a Pioneer DVD 500M (my F: drive). Both can read computer files, but only the Asus 50x can play my music CDs. Although my Pioneer can read CDs with computer files, it can't play music CDs nor movie ...
tagged: How To Play Music- which A Piano is more suitable for a young starter?
Question: We're considering to buy a new upright piano for my daughter. The obvious question is which one to buy. I was told that Baldwin, Steinway, Yamaha, Kiwei, and Boston made pianos are all good ones. But which one is more suitable for a young starter? What is the major difference among th ...
tagged: How To Buy A Piano- How many keys has a full size piano ?.
Question: How many keys has a full size piano ?. Sorry for the silly question but its really bugging me !. Answer: This is interesting because my upright, new in the mid-Fifties (I was very young!), only has 85 notes. Apparently this was common in the last century but unusual in this.
tagged: How Many Keys Are On A Piano- Is there a significant difference between Easy Piano music books are put by Hal Leonard and the regular books ?
Question: Hal Leonard puts out Easy Piano music books. Is there a significant difference between that and the regular books ? Answer: Generally speaking yes. Easy piano arrangements *generally only present truncated themes or melodies *typically don't have chords of more than two notes except f ...
tagged: Easy Piano- Any comments on if piano music is alive and well within the New Age classification?????
Question: I have to say that pinpointing a hard and fast genre for solo-piano music is certainly not an easy task. Do the New Age enthusiasts and radio programmers consider George Winston, for example, New Age? As a pianist who just released my 2nd solo-piano CD, I am interested in trying to pu ...
tagged: Easy Piano Music- Can anyone suggest how I could go about getting them published (i.e. as a book) (I have composed a set of 22 piano pieces for children. )?
Question: I have composed a set of 22 piano pieces for children. Can anyone suggest how I could go about getting them published (i.e. as a book)? Any information would be greatly appreciated. I am an Australian composer based in Canberra. Score and MIDI samples of the pieces can be viewed by fo ...
tagged: Children Piano
