Tuesday 17 January 2012

Internet links for piano lessons, etc.

There are many free resources for piano players of all abilities and ages on the Internet.
You sometimes have to do the usual trawl through commercial sites and old/dead/confusing links, but there are some excellent, fun and educational places out there!
I have been suggesting the following to customers recently:

www.youtube.com Type in 'free piano lessons' or 'how to play piano' or 'how to read music' etc.
You can also type in the name of a tune/band/style followed by 'piano lesson'.
As an example I found this:
www.freepianolessons4kids.com

My long time favorite for theory practice is:
www.emusictheory.com
there is a great note drill exercise here. (You need to have Java installed, which is painless!)
Also, www.musictheory.net is a simple and clear site.
www.ptg.org click resources then 'learning center'. Yes its American, which is slightly different.
If you go to 'for pianists' you can print and cut-out/fold your own Grand Piano!

When you have a spare moment, the most obvious start is to 'Google' such phrases as:
'free piano sheet music for beginners'. Here I found www.8notes.com
or 'free sheet music', etc. There are many thousands of chord based songs on dozens of guitar sites which can be adapted to piano.

www.freebyte.com/music is for advanced music software, etc.

Happy hunting. If you find any fun/easy/simple games for children please let me know:
mwpianos@aol.com