Have you ever asked yourself why we have Major and Minor Scales in music? With the exception of the Drums, you must know the Major and Minor Scales on the Musical Instrument that you want to learn. The reason for this is because most of the music that you hear in this world are derived from the Major and Minor Scales. There is rarely any song or music that you will hear in this world that is not derived from at least one of the Major and Minor Scales. Major and Minor Scales help us to create what is known as Tonal Music.  Tonal Music is based on Tonality. What is Tonality? Tonality is the ..read more

Repetition is a powerful technique that is used in music to create memorable and beautiful melodies, songs and other pieces of music. Think of the songs that you listen to; I don’t think you will find a song that doesn’t have a repetition of a particular part/parts of the vocal melody or/and the instrumental melody. Even lyrics and rhythm get repeated in songs. You can repeat any aspect of a piece of music or a song. Repetition helps us to remember the song or the piece of music that we’re listening to. Repetition is a powerful technique that makes songs, melodies and other pieces of music to ..read more

You can play a song or any piece of music by figuring out the notes and the chords to play through the use of the knowledge of Music Theory and by using your ears; let’s call this approach Method 1. Alternatively, another method that you can use to play a song or any piece of music is by playing what is on the music sheet of the song or the piece of music that you want to play; let’s call this approach Method 2. Method 1 (playing through the use of your ears and the knowledge of Music Theory) will always work because once you have a good understanding of Music Theory (i.e. how music works), yo ..read more

Think of Music and the act of playing the Piano like a Language that you speak, write and read (e.g. the English Language). ​The letters of the English Alphabets (A to Z) are used to create words that are separated by spaces. Similarly, in Music, the 12 Musical Notes that we have are used to create Major and Minor Scales which contain notes that are separated by Musical Intervals (i.e. the distance between one Musical Note and another Musical Note in terms of Pitch). ​The words of the English Language, spaces and at times punctuations are used to create titles, sub-titles, sentences and paragr ..read more

In this lesson, we are going to learn about how to name the notes that are in a Major or Minor Scale correctly. The video/audio explanation for the topic of this article is below. The written explanation is below the video : Each musical note on the Piano can be named with at least 2 names; but how do you know which one of the names to give to a Musical Note? Before I answer this question, I will like to say that from a practical point of view, it actually doesn’t matter what name you choose to call a musical note as long as that musical note can be called that name. So, for example, from a p ..read more

In this lesson, I’m going to teach you how to build Major Scales. It is very important that you know all the 12 Major Scales because a lot of songs are based on the Major Scale i.e. there are songs that use most of the notes or all of the notes of the Major Scale. Before I talk about how to build a Major Scale, let me first define what a Scale is. A Musical Scale is a group of musical notes that are ordered by pitch. A scale that is ordered by increasing pitch is known as an ascending scale and a scale that is ordered by decreasing pitch is known as a descending scale. We have differ ..read more

In this lesson, I’m going to teach you what the Half-Step (or Semi-Tone) and the Whole Step (or Whole Tone) Musical Intervals are. Just to be clear, a Half-Step can also be referred to as a Semi-Tone. A Whole-Step can also be referred to as a Whole Tone.  What is a musical interval? A musical interval is the difference or distance in pitch between 2 musical notes. If you move from one musical note to the next musical note on the left or to the right of the Piano, then that means that you have moved by a half step (a half step is also known as a semi-tone).  If you move by 2 half step ..read more

One question that people ask at times is “which Piano should I buy?”. In this article, I’m going to tell you the Piano that you should buy. You should buy a Piano that has 88 fully-weighted Keys. You have the option of buying an Acoustic Piano or a Digital Piano or an Electronic Keyboard. Alternatively, you could buy 2 or 3 of the aforementioned (i.e. an Acoustic Piano, a Digital Piano or an Electronic Keyboard).  . An Electronic Keyboard usually has more instrumental sounds than a Digital Piano. An Electronic Keyboard usually has fewer keys than 88 keys. An Electronic Keyboard usual ..read more

In this article, I’m going to give you a thorough explanation of how musical notes are named. Don’t assume that you know because you might not know as much as you think you currently do. If you read this post to the end, you will have a clear understanding of how musical notes are named. The picture above shows some of the names that are used to name musical notes. I will explain the logic behind these names and I will also talk about other names that are used to name musical notes in this lesson. In music, a particular note can have a couple of possible names. For example, one musical note c ..read more

There are people that find Music Theory boring; they prefer to get it done quickly or even skip it and start playing songs/melodies/chords on the Piano. They prefer to watch video tutorials for songs and mimic/follow the tutorials without having a thorough understanding of why they’re playing what they’re being told to play. People that don’t understand Music Theory will struggle to be able to play in all 12 Keys fluently. Music Theory is very important because it gives you a strong foundation in Music. When you understand Music Theory, you will be able to create your own Chord Progressions, M ..read more