Tuesday, 5 July 2016

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KEYBOARD - 3 (CHORDS)


In music, a chord is a combination of notes played together. They are three or more notes. However, chords are not formed by simply combining any note you see on the keyboard. There is a universal pattern or if you like, formula for deriving chords. This is what we will learn today.
There are different types of chords, and for the purpose of this post, i will be discussing a group called the TRIADS.

Thursday, 30 June 2016

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KEYBOARD - 2 (semitones, tones, sharps, flats etc)

In my previous post, I introduced the keyboard. This post is simply a continuation.
what are semitones and tones?
tone and semitone

From the diagram above, the smallest distance between two keys is a semitone. A full tone is double

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KEYBOARD


Music is difficult to define accurately. This is because over the years, many people have described music in different forms. However, they all have one thing in common; music is an organised sound!
what is the keyboard all about? All the average person knows is that it consists of black and white keys, which produce sound when struck.

The keyboard refers to instruments like the piano, organ and electronic keyboards. The piano belongs to the class of musical instruments called string instruments; the are composed of strings which produce sound when you strike them. You maybe wondering where the strings are? Well, they are located inside. The pipe organ is a wind instrument which produces sound by driving pressurized air through organ pipes selected via a keyboard. The common instrument most people call the keyboard is the electronic keyboard, which mimics a wide variety of musical instruments; this means that you can 'play' almost any instrument using the electronic keyboard, provided the voice for that instrument has been preinstalled in your electronic keyboard. The electronic keyboard produces sound using electric signals.

keyboard
What are the first things to learn, when you pick up the keyboard (from now on, 'keyboard' refers to

WELCOME

welcome to music

Welcome to the world of music. This blog was brought to life due to my desire to transfer the little knowledge I have acquired from playing musical instruments for some years, to beginners, newbies, novices or what ever you choose to call them.
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