Posts
Here are my blog posts about all things piano. They range from tips about practicing to the joys of studying music.
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This post is the second part of a blog about solfège and relative pitch. The information below is all cumulative and builds a framework for identifying the harmony of a song based on the rules of solfège expounded in part 1. The post will define the 14 chord functions within a particular key. Then it…
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This post will provide a summary of relative pitch and perfect pitch (absolute pitch) and will enumerate the different scale degrees with methods to hearing their relation to the fundamental pitch (“Do”). This post uses the movable “Do” solfège method, where we assign “Do” to the root of any key that we are in. The…
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This post will outline 5 benefits of practicing with a metronome and why it has been an important and crucial practice tool for musicians for generations. – Thomas H. Dotson Musicians have incorporated metronomes into their practice since Johann Maelzel constructed of the devise in 1815. In fact, Ludwig van Beethoven even included exact tempo…
