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Johannes Brahms-Part 9 Thereupon Brahms opened his cigarette case again and said with a smile of satisfaction: Then give me back the good cigarette; for your purpose a common one of the Austrian Tabackregie will do just as well! Brahms never married. Although frequently on terms of intimacy with ladies, he does not appear to have got further than occasionally remarking to a friend; Such a girl would make me happy. What he missed in this way, ho..

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Johannes Brahms-Part 8 Rude But Amiable In spite of his reputation as a rude fellow, I found Brahms comparatively amiable. He soon honored me with his autograph, the first measures of his famous song Oh versenk. Brahms was an inveterate smoker. He loved a good weed, but did not turn up his nose at a bad one. Erich Wolff, the composer, used to tell a story about Brahms' cigarettes. He had only just emerged from the Academy of Music at Vienna when he ventured to submit..

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Johannes Brahms-Part 7 In early life Brahms was slim and slight of build. As the years passed he took on weight rapidly. He was rather short, had sandy colored hair, and was clean shaven. By the time he was fifty he looked stout, shaggy and unkempt. Moreover, a thick beard hid much of his face. Though neat and tidy in his youth, he would later wear alpaca rather than broadcloth. An old shawl was the garment he preferred. His aversion to visiting England seems partly to..

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Johannes Brahms-Part 6 Great Master Works His German Requiem was given in 1868 in the Cathedral at Bremen, and was attended by many representative musicians. The event of the year 1876 was the production of his Symphony Op. 68 in C Minor at Carlsruhe. The critics of the day were very divergent in their views; some could make neither head nor tail of it, while others lauded it to the skies. A second symphony, Op. 73, in D, followed after a short time. Another great wo..

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Johannes Brahms-Part 5 In 1859 Brahms played his new pianoforte concerto at Hanover, Joachim being the conductor, and later at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig; but he soon realized that his life work lay more in the direction of creation than of execution. Great publishing firms accepted his works for publication. Clara Schumann continued her propaganda of Brahm's works and performed in Hamburg his Variations on a Theme of Handel. The charm of Vienna attracted him at first o..

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Johannes Brahms-Part 4 Schumann's Death The year 1854 brought much sadness. Schumann was overtaken by the mental malady which clouded his few remaining years. He attempted to throw himself into the Rhine, but was rescued and taken to an asylum, where he lingered on until 1856. This tragedy affected Brahms very deeply. He rushed off to Dusseldorf to offer his sympathies to the poor wife and in common with other friends set himself to do all that he could to h..

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Johannes Brahms-Part 3 The most important outcome of this tour was a meeting with the great violinist Joachim, and from that date began their lifelong friendship. Joachim was impressed with the young man and wrote to several friends prophesying a great future for him. Moreover, he gave him an introduction to Schumann, who was then at Dusseldorf. Schumann heard Brahms play his Sonata in C Major and many of his other pieces, and both he and his wife expressed t..

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Johannes Brahms-Part 2 First Appearance as a Pianist He made his first public appearance as a pianist when he was fourteen at a concert of which the program included his own variations upon a Volkslied. Brahms seems to have had a decided preference for the variation. Six of his works - his Opus 9, Variations on a Theme by Schumann; Op. 21 No. 1, Variations on an Original Theme; Op. 21, No. 2, Variations on a Hungarian Theme; Op. 23, Variations on a Theme by S..

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Johannes Brahms-Part 1 Among the artists whose merits have been passionately disputed, not only by the public at large, but also by other famous musicians, is certainly Johannes Brahms. With Brahms it is not as with Wagner a question of agreeing or disagreeing with his principles or his daring innovations, but simply a liking or disliking of his music. Someone named him the last of the classics or, like Bulow, made him a member of the Three B's Tri..

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Georges Bizet-Part 12 Beautiful thoughts, fitly expressed! Resuming we find in Bizet's life a fervent love of art manifesting itself from earliest childhood. Severe studies completed under the leadership of great masters like Marmontel, Zimmermann, Halevy and Gounod. His teachings could be summarized as follows: Strive to become a great pianist and learn the true expression, the right phrasing. Hum and sing passages and melodies with deep feeling. Try to suggest on th..

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Georges Bizet-Part 11 Further Galabert writes: One knows generally Bizet only as the author of Arlesienne and Carmen; but that should not prevent us from appreciating the beauties of the Pecheurs de peries, of the Jolie fille de Parth, Diamileh, the dramatic overture Patrie, his songs Adieux de Photesse Arabe, Vous ne Priez Pas, Ma vie a Son Secret, his Funeral March for piano. Bizet was an eclectic, non-secretarian, and opposed to prejudi..

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Georges Bizet-Part 10 An Eminent Pianist As has already been mentioned, Bizet was an eminent pianist. Edmond Galabert in his introduction to Bizet's Lettres a un ami, relates that Bizet advised him to seriously devote himself to the piano, to watch, to criticise himself, to repeat difficult passages until the touch attained the desired quality, to use the pedal with the greatest discretion and exactness. He obtained marvelous effects through the simultaneous use of bot..

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Georges Bizet-Part 9 I would have strangled her, says Jose. He is admitted into the band of Dancaire, to which Carmen was since long time affiliated. Then begins the life of a bandit. He would like to become again an honest man and carry with him Carmen to America, but she refuses; she has enough of him; she hates him; she throws away the ring he gave her. Jose flushed with rage strikes her once, twice - he kills her. Meilhac and Halevy, the authors of the l..

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Georges Bizet-Part 8 The libretto is written after the famous novel of Prosper Merimee, which portrays the bizarre customs of the gypsies. Of course, Merimee does not hesitate to introduce us to the most abject collections of crooks and bandits; but who would accuse of immorality the fascinating writer? Carmen is the history of the bandit Don Jose Navarro, whom the author of the novel met in the mountains of the Sierra. Touched by the sympathy this stranger had shown to..

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Georges Bizet-Part 7 Returned home Bizet found himself in the usual condition of all young musicians, trying to meet the cost of living through piano lessons, piano transcriptions, orchestrating dance music and waiting for an opportunity. This opportunity presented itself quite unexpectedly. Count Walewsky, minister of fine arts, preparing to retire from his office, made a gift of 100,000 francs to the Theatre Lyric. Bizet was the first to benefit by the ministerial gen..

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Georges Bizet-Part 6 A Humiliating Letter In 1859 young Bizet was on his way to Naples to bring to Mercadante the letter of Carafa. Curious to see the contents of the missive, he opened it and - oh disillusion! - he read, Il giovae che ti ci mettera - questa lettera ha fatto ottimi studii. Ha avato la prima ricompensa del nostro conservatorio, Ma secondo la mia debole opinione non sara mai un compositore teatrale, perche non ha estro per un.... (here an untr..

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Georges Bizet-Part 5 He soon acquired great reputation as a wonderful reader. Nobody, indeed, understood as he did how to arrange at sight for piano the most intricate orchestra scores. Berlioz was one of the first to recognize the exceptional talent of the young artist. After the death of Zimmermann, Bizet entered the composition classes of Halevy. The author of La Juive received him with open arms and declared that he was already fit to take part at the contest for t..

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Georges Bizet-Part 4 The child was admitted to the piano classes of Mermontel, the renowned teacher of Paladilhe, Duvernoy, Wieniawsky and Dubois. Six months later he won the first prize for solfege. It was then that he was introduced to the old Professor Zimmerman, who for a long time had headed the courses of counterpoint and fugue; and, although Zimmerman had decided to retire from teaching, he made an exception in favor of young Bizet, and took him as his pupil in c..

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Georges Bizet-Part 3 One day as he made him sing a lesson of solfege full of difficulty intervals, he was impressed by the exactness with which he hit the right notes. He raised his eyes and noticed that the young reader was looking away from the open book. The child, unaware of the surveillance of his teacher, continued to sing without looking at the notes. He had often heard that lesson through the door and had learned it by heart. The father resolved to send him to t..

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Georges Bizet-Part 2 They approve of Humperdinck, whose Hansel and Gretel, fairy opera, hardly justifies the overburdened, Wagnerian instrumentation. Somebody said that he shot with cannons at sparrows. They would perhaps reproach Bizet with shooting at lions with children's pistols in his tragic opera Carmen. It is impossible to please everybody. Fortunately, there are very few musicians whose short sightedness prevents them from appreciating..

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Georges Bizet-Part 1 Bizet was of the opinion that one should combat the prejudice that only non-artists can judge impartially a work of art. He did not realize that he himself had the most to suffer from the adverse criticism of his fellow musicians. Although today the recognition of Bizet's genius is almost universal, there prevails still in certain musical quarters the tendency to classify him among the light opera composers; and I have heard a well known modernist..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 12 Adelina Patti requested him to write something in her album. He wrote: Oportet pati (one must suffer!) and as she asked him what it meant, he answered it was kitchen Latin and meant: Apportez le pate (bring on the pie! ) When his opera The Trojans was first produced a friend came to him confidentially and told him. Old fellow, do something to please me - suppress 'Mercury.' Those wings on his head and his heels are really comic..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 11 A Brilliant Writer Berlioz was also a brilliant and witty critic and feuilletoniste. He was for many years music critic of the Journal des Debats, and he left some entertaining writing in his Grotesques de le musique, Voyage musical and Soirees de lOrchestre; but he always held in abhorrence his duties as a critic. I hate circumlocution, diplomacy, trimming and all half measures and concessions, he said. Why can I not remember th..

Music Of The Great Composers -- Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz-Part 10 At least he had the satisfaction that some of his illustrious fellow artists championed him with word and deed, and he got fresh courage to fight on. No, a thousand times, no! - he writes - no man living has a right to try and destroy the individuality of another, to force him to adopt a style not his own, and to give his natural point of view. If a man is commonplace let him remain so; if he be great - a choice spirit set above..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 9 Mendelssohn was still more severe in his judgment of Berlioz. He is a perfect caricature, without one spark of talent, he wrote in one of his letters. Peculiarly enough, Berlioz himself felt very keenly extravagance and exaggeration in the music of other composers. Of Wagner's Tannhauser he wrote: Wagner is turning singers into goats . . . he is decidedly mad; he will die of apoplexy after all. Liszt, who was expected,..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 8 Berlioz' Critics The daring innovator aroused also the wrath of the conservative musicians like Boieldieu (the author of the opera La Dame Blanche ) and Halevy (the composer of La Juive ). In his third attempt to win the Prix de Rome Berlioz had composed a cantata, Cleopatra Boieldieu, who was one of the judges, said to Berlioz: But, my dear boy, how could I possibly approve it? I who like nice, gentle music..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 7 As I remarked in the course of this article, most of Berlioz's works betray a preference for the gigantic - for the prodigious. Whoever expected to meet in the music of his last opera, The Trojans, those extravagances which shock us so often in his symphonies, would be, however, disappointed. I witnessed a performance of Les Trojens in Carlsruhe under Mottl's direction, and I was surprised to find a very tame Berlioz. The opera is performed in two..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 6 His Tremendous Orchestral Effects I have quoted in detail the program of this work, as it gives a characteristic of Berlioz' individuality. His fantasy and his other music have something morbid and chaotic, which borders on insanity. Even the extravagant orchestral masses he uses in his works are a symptom of his abnormality. In his smaller works he usually writes for an orchestra of more than usual size, using by preference four bassoons instead o..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 5 Hello, Crispino! what brings you here? To tell the truth, I've got no money. You have no money? What business is that of mine, oh, mightiest of scamps? I am no scamp. If you call me a scamp because I have no money you are right, but if it is because I was two years at Civita Vecchia you are wrong. I wasn't sent to the galleys for stealing, but just for good honest shots at strangers in the mountains. ..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 4 What fiber of a man! Even adverse criticism he considered as a part of success. But his hope that Miss Smithson would hear of him was not fulfilled. She was not present. This passion will be my death; how often all the English papers ring with her praises; I am unknown. When I have written something great, something stupendous, I must go to London to have it performed. Oh, for success! success under her very eyes! Berlioz in Rome A pa..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 3 But here new obstacles grew in his way. The director of the Conservatoire, Cherubini, had issued an edict that men and women were to enter the building from opposite sides. Berlioz did not conform to the order and presented himself at the wrong door and brushing aside the servant who tried to stop him made himself at home in the library. Cherubini became furious and forbade Berlioz to use the library. Things were smoothed down afterwards, but from..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 2 They wanted him to study medicine; they boy, on the contrary, showed interest only for music, for instruments. He found a flageolet in a neglected drawer and made such dire noises that his father in self defense taught him to play. After that he discovered a flute and later a guitar - a peculiar omen for the future master of modern instrumentation. A Strong Musical Inclination Dr. Berlioz observed those symptoms with growing concern. When the time was drawing..

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Hector Berlioz-Part 1 Which power raises man the higher? Love or music? It is a great question. It seems to me that love alone cannot give an idea of music, but music can give an idea of love - why separate them? They are the twin wings of the soul. So once declared Hector Berlioz, and his life, all permeated with love and music, was certainly a demonstration of that sentence. To striving, ambitious musicians there cannot be a more inspiring figure than..

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Charles Auguste de Beriot De Beriot was born in Louvain, Belgium, February 20, 1802, and died at Louvain, April 8, 1870. He studied the violin under his guardian, Tiby, but in his nineteenth year he went to Paris, and, though he did not study with Viotti and Baillot, as reported, his work was supervised by them. He then went on tour, meeting with great success in London, Paris and the great music centers of Europe. In 1836 he married Maria Malibran. After her death,..

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Beethoven-Part 4 by Arthur S. Garbett He was a fine teacher, but hated teaching, often ignoring the pupils he accepted. Carl Czerny, who received a few irregular lessons from him, says he insisted on scale playing, and used Emanuel Bach's instruction book. for young Gerhard von Breuning, in 1826, he recommended Clementi's studies. He taught a legato touch, making more frequent use of the thumb than was common at that time. His desire was to counteract the stacca..

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Beethoven-Part 2 by Arthur S. Garbett Before deafness interfered he was sociably included, and his genius as a pianist, and especially his gift of improvisation, made him welcome in princely houses, where otherwise his bluff speech and open rudeness might have denied him admittance. As silence closed about him, however, he locked his doors to all save his intimates, and even to them at times. Schindler, Ries, Moscheles, Carl Czerny, Lobkowitz, Rasoumowsky, and other p..

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Beethoven-Part 1 by Arthur S. Garbett Beethoven suffered a threefold loneliness; he was unmarried; he was deaf; he was a genius. The first deprived him of the loving sympathy he so much needed; the second, of social intercourse and of the music that was the breath of his life; and the third set him apart from all mankind. Beethoven had many friends. They were kind to him and helped him in his troubles, provided him with financial assistance; and yet none was such a co..

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Reading Rhythm Patterns In 3/4 Time Reading rhythm patterns in 3/4 is the same as reading in 4/4, except dealing with triple meter (3/4, 6/8, 9/8, etc). You'll learn how to count and play triplets, too, through a unique counting technique devised by Duane. Again, absolutely essential if you're having problems with time! Reading Rhythm Patterns In 3/4 Time Reading Rhythm Patterns In 3/4 Time MR-5: Instructional Aud..

Reading rhythm patterns in 4/4 time

Reading Rhythm Patterns In 4/4 Time Reading Rhythm Patterns In 4/4 Time Want to learn to recognize and play rhythm patterns in 4/4 time? This instructional audio CD will have you clapping, tapping, and playing many rhythm patterns that you'll encounter in any kind of music. Super for those who have trouble with time or rhythm, but helpful for everybody. This instructional audio CD will help you understand and read music..

Ledger Lines: Learn to Read Those Super-High & Super-Low Notes!

Ledger Lines: Learn to Read Those Super-High & Super-Low Notes! Can you quickly recognize those notes high above the treble staff, or low below the bass staff? After listening to this Instructional Audio CD & you'll see how easy they really are to remember, so you'll have a handle on them and they will no longer be puzzling to you. Ledger Lines: Learn to Read Those Super-High & Super-Low Note..

How to hear far out harmonies and understand them

How To Hear Far-Out Harmonies! What makes a harmony far-out ? Extensions to the basic triad. You'll learn to listen for the root -- the bass line -- the tonal center. Then you'll determine whether the 5th is perfect, augmented, or diminished. Then you'll listen for the chief color tone, whether it be a 6th, 9th, or whatever. You'll learn to listen, analyze, listen, analyze, and then listen some more. Extensions of a tri..

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Top Pick! Yamaha GigMaker Guitar Pack Everything you need to take to the stage. This package is built around the F325 guitar with die-cast chrome tuners and a spruce top. Also includes a gig bag, digital tuner, strap, extra strings, picks, and an instructional DVD to kick-start your playing. Features: F325 acoustic w/die-c..

Hearing Difference in Chord Types

Hearing Differences In Chord Types! Each type of chord gives off a mood of its own. By associating the mood, or emotion, with a specific chord type, you can soon learn to distinguish between the basic kinds of triads: Major Minor Diminished Augmented For example, minor chords sound more somber, more serious, than major chords. Why? Because of the way the intervals are stacked within the chord. A di..

Training your ear to hear intervals of 2nds through 13ths

Training Your Ears To Hear Intervals of 2nds Through 13ths An interval is the distance between any two notes, and on this course you are going to learn to hear 2nds, 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, 13ths, and of course octaves & unisons. You will also learn to recognize them in printed music quickly. If you learn to hear an interval in your mind, and know what it is, then it is easy to repr..

Intervals -- the key to hearing music

An interval is the distance between any two notes. When you hear a melody, can you hear what intervals are being used? Do you know when a singer is moving up a minor 6th, or down a perfect 4th? You can in time -- and this tape drills you on intervals from unisons to octaves. You'll learn the difference between consonant and dissonant intervals, major, minor, and perfect intervals, and how they invert. ..

Sight Reading Music Fast

Seven Magic Steps To Speed Sight Reading! You can read most any type of music at sight -- if you follow these seven simple rules. It's not magic, unless you call understanding what you see magic. You'll learn how to instantly recognize intervals, inversions, arpeggios, chords, increase your eye span, and how to avoid losing your place in the music when you have to look down at your hands -- a problem lots of people have. Dear Friend: &nbs..

How To Read Music...In One Evening!

How To Read Music...In One Evening! How To Read Music...In One Evening! If you've ever wanted to read music, but thought it was too complicated or would take too long, this exciting course is the solution to the problem. It reduces music to its 3 basic elements: Melody (the tune of a song -- the part you whistle or hum) Harmony (the background notes -- usually chords of some kind) Rhythm (the beat -- the part of music that makes yo..

Playing Spirituals on your piano using lead sheets

Playing Spirituals On Your Piano From a Lead Sheet This course is like the course on Spirituals, except this time the Spirituals are taught using a Lead Sheet -- just the melody and chord symbols. You'll learn to arrange each of these: Deep River Dry Bones Every Time I Feel The Spirit Joshua Fought The Battle of Jericho Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen This Train Is bound For Glory Were You..

Spirituals on the piano

Playing Spirituals On The Piano! Need I say more? Everybody loves spirituals. And in this exciting DVD video course we cover lots of the great old spirituals: Oh, Them Golden Slippers Go Down Moses Poor Wayfaring Stranger When The Saints Go Marching In He's Got The Whole World In His Hands Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Printed music of each song included) DVD-24: Spirituals! DVD & Song Sheets of S..

Praise & Worship Piano Playing Without Written Music

The Secret of Playing For Praise & Worship Without Written Music (Using Chord Symbols & Words Only) I took a phone call from a very nice lady recently who said I know chords and I know how to read music, but it doesn't do me much good because I play in a church where they don't use any written music -- just a sheet with the words and the chord symbols on it. I don't know what to do. She's not alone..

Turnarounds

Turnarounds for piano players who want to sound professional... Turn-Arounds For piano players who want to sound professional... Turnarounds are chord progressions which you use at the end of a phrase to get you launched into the next phrase. Also used at the end of songs to get you back into the song a 2nd or 3rd time. You'll learn the I, vi, ii, V7 turnaround (also called the..

How To Think In The Key You Are Playing In...

How To Think In The Key You Are Playing In... To speak Spanish or German or French well, you have to be able to think in the language. It's the same with music... Unless you can think in Bb when you're playing a song in the key of Bb, you will leave out flats, miss chords, etc, that are just not necessary to miss. And since th..

Best-Loved Gospel Hymns Of All Time!

The Best-Loved Gospel Hymns Of All Time! Bring 'em to life on your piano! Battle Hymn Old Rugged Cross Dear Piano-playing friend: Would you like to be able to play and arrange some of the greatest gospel hymns ever written? If so, you're going to LOVE this DVD video series I have recorded. In each DVD I spend two whole hours demonstrating and explaining how to add runs, fill, chord substitutio..

Evangelistic piano playing

I want to teach you to make hymns & gospel songs come alive through Evangelistic Embellishments! Please let me tell you about my exciting 40-lesson course! Dear Friend: When I was a teenager learning to play the piano, I would hear people like Rudy Atwood play on the radio, and I would say to myself I would give anything if I could play like that! And I meant it. I devoted the next..

Chording secrets of exciting piano playing on FIVE CD's & 52 printed lessons!

Can you see yourself at the piano... -- Chording like a pro... -- Being the life of the party... -- Entertaining your family and friends... Dear Friend: How would you like to master -- really master -- the art of playing the piano using a chording style? When I was a kid, my Mom played the piano by reading the notes in a piece of music -- like most everyone does. It was fine, but not near as..

Teaching Music: How To Earn a Six-Figure Income

Make Your Fortune Doing What You Love Best -- Music! I'll show you 3 ways to do it. Millions of people want to play music like you... ..

Classical Piano for Adult Beginners

Classical Piano For Adult Beginners! How would you like to learn the theme to familiar classics such as: Fantasie Impromptu Toreador Song Liebestraum Unfinished Symphony Hungarian Dance New World Symphony Pathetique Symphony Surprise Symphony Arabesque Wild Horseman Minuet in G Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2 Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1 -- all in a two-hou..

Chord Substitutions Secrets

The 3 Secrets of Exciting Chord Substitutions! Have you ever drooled over a chord -- a chord you didn't expect -- a chord that almost took your breath away? You thought you knew what chord was coming, but instead, you hear this exciting substitute chord. What are chord substitutions and how do you make them? You'll learn the three methods of creating chord substitutions that will keep you busy creating exciting and surprising sounds for a lifetime! ..

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This CD course will teach you 144 basic chords... in ONE hour! Honest! Learn 144 Basic Chords In One Hour -- Honest! Dear Friend: There are only 12 major chords, 12 minor chords, 12 augmented chords, and 12 diminished chords. That makes 48. Then each one can be turned upside down (inverted) 3 times. Three times 48 is 144. These are the ba..

How To Become a

How To Become a Chord Detective and see through all the notes into the order behind the written music so you can play this song using chords instead of as is . SUPER BONUS: Order Today and receive FREE BIG book of 74 famous songs to practice your see-through eyes' on... The complete Chord Detective Course is a step-by-step guide that shows you the inside secre..

Chord & Rhythm Fingering Finder

Playing Chords In Rhythm This course is built around a unique copyrighted chart called the Chord & Rhythm Fingering Finder which slips behind the piano keys and shows you what notes to play in various chords, and also shows you how to create a rhythm bass by playing a bass note followed by a chord (sometimes called a swing bass ). All you have to do is place the pointer at the name of the chord you want to play, a..

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Announcing... Dear musician: It doesn't matter what instrument you play. Somewhere there is a hungry market for your skill. You just need to find that market and give them what they are looking for...your skill. Do you play guitar? There are about 19 zillion people in the world wishing they could play like you. Do you play piano? Another gazillion folks are waiting for..

Piano lesson on augmented chords - augmented triads

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Piano lessons - diminished chords - diminished triads

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Piano lesson on minor chords

minor chords This is the Secrets of Exciting Chords & Chord Progressions! newsletter that you (or someone using your E-mail address) signed up for when you visited our site. If you no longer want to receive these free weekly E-mail piano lessons, toggle down to the bottom of this E-mail and you'll see where you can take yourself off the list. We take your privacy (and ours) very seriously, so we don't want anyone receiving our stuff who doesn't want it! ('cause thousands really do..

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Free Piano Lesson Sampler Cassette! Chord-Color Magic! Please give us a little information so we can rush the cassette out to you. Free ONLY to US residents. If you live outside the US, please click here: Name (First and last)* First and last name, please! (Post Office will not deliver without a complete name) Address * ( Complete address -- so the cassette will reach you! Please double-check your address.) We must have a complete mailing address, inc..

Your taste in music

Your taste in music You tune in for Flash-Back weekend on the radio. Your friends listen to head-banger Heavy Metal. Your online buddy listens to Brazilian music. You haven�t quite figured out why your brother-in-law likes Country music; and lest we not forget Grandpa and his Big Band era, old crony music. There are as many genres of music as there are days of the year. There�s an audience for every single type of music. The categories are as spread out as the east is from the west. S..

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