Chords
How to remember chords on the beginnings of famous melodies
It doesn't matter what causes the urgent need to memorize chords by heart. Perhaps you need to show off skills in front of fellow musicians. Or, much worse, the solfeggio exam is “on the nose”, and you do not distinguish a triad from a quartekstektakord — a crime within the framework of the criminal code, in the opinion of your theorist.
Playing the chords on the piano
Article for those who learn to play chords on the piano to the songs. Surely you come across such songbooks, where guitar chords with their tablature, that is, transcripts that let you know which string and where to press it to make one or another chord, are attached to the text. The manual, which is in front of you, is something like such tablature, only in relation to keyboard instruments.
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Taylor Swift: interesting facts, best songs, biography, listen
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Jazz quintet "Edelweiss"
Angelika Markova (vocal) - Winner of the international jazz competition, participant of jazz festivals (Arkhangelsk, Samara, etc.), graduate of the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesinyh. Lecturer of the RATI-GITIS (Estrada faculty, courses Garkalina V., Schukina A., Borisova M., Shanina E., Vasilyeva Y.) Permanent soloist of the group "Edelweiss".
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Preludes of Scriabin: history, video, content, interesting facts
Preludes Scriabin Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin is an interesting and rather mystical figure of the late XIX and early XX century. He always strove to create a new one and discovered completely different musical-coloristic edges. We must not lose sight of the fact that, apart from an indisputable gift to writing, Alexander Nikolaevich perfectly mastered the piano and brilliantly performed the most complex works from the technical side.
Degrees of relatedness of tonalities: everything in music is like in mathematics!
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If asked to write music at home!
From the letter: “My daughter goes to the third grade of music school: for the summer, according to solfege, we were asked to compose music. Could you tell me how we can help her?”. Well, let's try to suggest something! You do not need to be afraid of this task - you need to do it simply and correctly. It is best to write a song or a small play for the instrument on which we play.
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