V. Da'NEESA MONK - MUSIC SCHOOL ( BCAT-TV) AYERAYE'S PIANO LESSON

Here's a live music lesson given to an 11 year old student on my show.  She learns quickly and she has a good memory.  I wish she had a piano.  She really likes this.

If you have a piano or a keyboard, you can follow along. This lesson.will be aired in it's entirety on Wednesday, November 30th 2011.- 7:30 pm BCAT  TV channel 68
You can watch it online @  www.bricartsmedia.org/bcattvnetwork
select channel 68
Feel free to ask questions in the COMMENTS section

ALSO:
Maybe you, or someone you know, would like to be my guest student.
CONTACT ME @
v.daneesamonk@gmail.com

TERMINOLOGY / VOCABULARY:
Octave
Major Scale
Key
Metronome
Muscle memory
Half steps / Whole steps

LOOK AT THE VIDEO AGAIN TO SEE HOW THESE TERMS ARE USED.
Define them in your own words OR ask for the definitions in the comment section...OR ask.com.

NOT A TOTAL BEGINNER?

Ok...
You can read music and maybe you even play something else besides the piano.  You have all sorts of music books; song books, studies and etudes, fakebooks etc.  But they don't have that one song that keeps playing over and over in your head.  You want to play THAT song.

Well, there's always YOUTUBE.  You can play it over and over...and over or you can use wikifonia.  It's a site that has down loadable sheet music.  You can print it out transposed to the key you choose.

www.wikifonia.org

This can help greatly when you are trying to assemble an performance unit.  You don't need a musical director to write out all of your parts.  You can print them out in the key you need and make your own changes after that.  It is still a bit of work, but it takes some of the load off.

For vocalists, it's pretty much all you need, unless you are creating a special arrangement on the tune.

 BUT...

For those creative people who don't play any instrument, but have great ideas they want to share.  You no longer have to buy loads of expensive equipment.  You can use your computer, any online music source, a DVD/CD burner function on your computer and some blank DVD's or CD's.  The software is WONDERSHARE VIDEO CONVERTER.

I'm about to give it a try. You can try it out too and we can compare notes. I'm going to use one of my YouTube videos and put it on DVD.  Then I'll try a few other ideas to share with you.

TIME TO PRACTICE ! ! !

Put it into your schedule.

Sit in a chair that has the keyboard about elbow height when you sit.  If you have to reach up, It won't be comfortable.  There are adjustable keyboard benches on the market, as well as adjustable keyboard stands.  Some of them have storage space for your music.

Happy practicing.