HOW TO CREATE REVENUE AS A MUSICIAN

Musicians find it hard to take music full time, I believe this because it seems there is a music doctrine going across which says A Musician who does music full time can not  be successful financially. But this is wrong', a musician who can not create revenue in the music industry will not be able to also manage a business no matter the expenses, meaning that he or she lacks business mindset. As a musician, one should know that anything that acquires Time and skills, Talent and Money can generate revenue for you.

I Am proud to say that as a musician for over 8 years i have create a lot of revenue doing music full time. you can also do better than me.

Creating revenue as a musician is not a big task, you might not take it as a full time job yet you can create a reasonable revenue to cover your bills.

Below i will be sharing tips you can use to create revenue as a musician but note this that no matter how you want to operate, your time must be needed. The better way to be successful is drawing a life time plan that will suit you so as to be successful.

WAYS MUSICIANS CAN CREATE REVENUES DOING MUSIC FULL TIME/ PER TIME

1. TEACHING    

The first reasonable money i made as a musicians was teaching the piano. I found out that people were interested in learning the piano, so i taught of it and created two hours lectures every mondays tuesdays thursdays fridays  from 4pm to 6pm. at first i was billing per two weeks charging two thousand naira per student and i started with 11 students and it was really meeting my needs then, until I had little challenges which made the number of student drop to 6,
so i had to reduce their bills to one thousand naira which brought a great turn up. and now per student is paying fifteen thousand per month. teaching music has really created a lot revenue for me. this tip can work for you without stress if you have a good business mindset. i urged you to start now no matter the number of students turning up guarantying you with consistency you will create  huge revenue.

2 YOUTUBE CHANNEL

I have a YouTube channel that is doing well and also creating a lot revenue for me, and this is my biggest source of income.
you might wonder that how does YouTube create revenues as a musician. This is very easy to understand because YouTube has a platform that anyone can upload videos and make reason money from monetizing the videos. How is this possible?
login to YouTube and create a channel where you can post your videos you make and people across the world can watch the videos and subscribe to your channel, once your channel gets 10000 views your videos will be monetize causing advert to show before your video and google will pay you without any issues. So kindly make information about YouTube channel and started uploading as many video you can.

You can do a lot of tutorial videos  and upload.

3 MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS

To me i see pianist as a producer. so as a musician you can also make revenue by producing peoples music.

You can also create beat and sell them or even materials and sell them. I will advice you to start with a very affordable price to get more client for job doing.

4. MARKETING AND COMMISSION  

This is a great source  of creating  revenue
Anytime anywhere.

One can sell musical instrument for a brand and gets commission per marketing. Also one can buy musical instrument whole sales price and sell at he or she price rate..

So you can pick up any brand of your choice and partner with them to make revenues.

Thanks for reading.... We will love to see you again.

 

low-level passing chords that can be used to approach any chord

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Today's post will introduce low-level passing chords that can be used to approach any chord.
Level: Beginner

Prerequisite: Major and minor triads and their inversions
We will use plain simple minor triads for our passing chords.
Intro:

Passing chords don't need to be extremely phat to sound lush. If in doubt, ask Cory Henry.
Minor triads sound best in their first inversions and major triads sound best in the 2nd inversions. This is just the sounds with no context in mind.

Let me tell you why. Chords are gotten when notes are stacked on top each other. If all the notes are heard at the same time, it is said to be harmonic. If the notes are heard one after another, it is said to be melodic.

Now, these notes have spaces between them which form intervals. Intervals have diverse levels of brightness or harshness. Major and perfect intervals have the brightest sounds. These bright sounds are said to be consonant, and the harsh ones are said to be dissonant.

So the arrangement of the notes in a chord [called chord voicing] goes a long way to affect how the overall sound will be heard.
Major triads in 2nd inversion have a stack of perfect 4th and major 3rd interval, unlike the root position that has a stack of major 3rd and minor 3rd.
Cmaj is CEG. C-E is a major 3rd and E-G is a minor 3rd.
GCE is Cmaj in 2nd inversion and G-C is a perfect 4th and C-E is a major 3rd. You can see why a P4+M3 sounds better than an M3+m3.
Our focus is the minor triad. In root position, Cmin is CEbG. C-Eb is a minor 3rd interval and Eb-G is a major 3rd interval. In the 1st inversion, Cmin becomes EbGC. Eb-G is a major 3rd interval and G-C is a perfect 4th interval. So you see why an M3+P4 sounds better than an m3+M3.
Method:

We will use minor triads a whole step above our target chord to approach it in descending semitones. So if we are to approach a Gmin chord, we will start from Amin because Amin has its root, A, a whole step above G, the root note of Gmin which is our target chord.
We will then have Amin > Abmin > Gmin.
Amin > Abmin will be our passing chords.
We voice it to have the root note on top because we know [ or at least think] it sounds better like that.
/CEA > /BEbAb > /BbDG would be what our RH will play. on the last chord which is our Gmin chord, we can play the root on the LH or any other combo of notes e.g. GDF or GDA.
This gives LH/RH:
/CEA > /BEbAb > GDF/BbDG [Gmin7] or GDA/BbDG [Gminadd9]
Quick usage:

Say we want to play a 4 chord in key Cmaj e.g. Fmaj6/9 [FACDG], we can approach it from a Gmin chord and approach the Gmin chord with the passing chord we have just learnt.
/CEA > /BEbAb > GDF/BbDG [Gmin7] > FCG/ADG [Fmaj6/9]

We will take this up a bit higher in the next post.

Humblekeyz

Hallelujah chorus complete sheet.

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Hallelujah chorus composed by Gorge Frideric Handel (1685 -1759)

Complete sheets.. 12pages.

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PASSING/APPROACH CHORDS

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Welcome back, 

This lesson is directed to the question folks ask about Passing and/or Approach Chords. It is to my fellow beginners and those at the borderline of beginner and intermediate levels [where I found myself for some time now].

Definitions:

In music, a passing chord is a non-diatonic chord that connects, or passes between, the notes of two diatonic chords. Any chord that moves between one diatonic chord and another one nearby diatonic chord may be loosely termed a passing chord. A diatonic passing chord may be inserted into a pre-existing progression that moves by a major or minor third in order to create more movement. 'In-between chords' that help you get from one chord to another are called passing chords.

A chromatic passing chord is, a chord that is not in the harmonized scale.

In music, an approach chord (also chromatic approach chord and dominant approach chord) is a chord one half-step higher or lower than the target chord. An approach chord may also be the chord immediately preceding the target chord such as the sub-dominant (BbMaj7) preceding the tonic (FMaj7) creating a strong cadence through the contrast of no more than two common tones - BbD(FA) – (FA)CE [common tones in brackets].

Approach chords may thus be a semitone or a fifth or fourth from their target chords.
Having explained all those, let's look at the very last sentence above: Approach chords may thus be a semitone or a fifth or fourth from their target chords. This is where we will build this lesson on.
In the Circle of Dominants [COD], which most know as the circle of 4ths/5ths, one can see that for example, an F has a Bb and C bordering it. C to F is a Perfect 4th interval [P4] and F to C is a Perfect 5th interval [P5]. From F to Bb is a P4 interval and Bb to F is a P5 interval.

A 4th interval above is called a sub-dominant while a 5th above is called a dominant. A P4 inverts to a P5 and vice versa.
Now, because both are dominants, you can move to any from another i.e. from F to C and from C to F i.e. in 4ths or 5ths [depending on which direction you count towards].

This is why you can use an approach/
passing chord that is a 4th interval away in any direction, to get to your target chord. For example, to get to an F chords, we can use a P4 interval above i.e. a Bb chord, or a P4 interval below i.e. a C chord.

So, when you use a chromatic chord to approach a target chord, you are either using the Leading Tone/Note idea or the Tritone substitution idea. Let me show you:

Let our target be an F chord, say Fmaj7 [FACE]. We have established that we can use say C7 or Bb7 to approach it, because Bb is a P4 above and C is a P4 below [or we say Bb is a P4 above and C is a P5 above].

Now, when we use an E chord or a Gb chord to approach the Fma7, we might be employing any of the 2 ideas pointed out above [leading tone or tritone substitution].

The Leading Tone/Note is the diatonic 7th note of the scale and is a min7b5 chords when harmonized with scale notes [only]. It is therefore a semitone below the tonic note.

If F were to be the tonic note, then E is the leading note and therefore, we can use Emin7b5 to approach the Fmaj7 chords:
LH/RH: E/EGBbD > F/FACE

The tritone sub idea is based on the fact that two dominant chords a tritone interval away share the same notes as their shells [3 and b7]. If we are to use an E chord to appraoch the Fmaj chord, we might think of it as the tritone sub of using a Bb chord [because Bb and E are tritone pairs]. So we can use any E dominant chord, altered or not, to approach the Fmaj7 chord. The popular one used is the 7#5#9 chord.

So, we can use the E7#5#9 chord to approach an Fmaj7 chord:
LH/RH: E/G#B#DFx [that's E+G#+B#+D+F double # and enharmonically equivalent to EG#CDG].
You can try E7b5b9 i.e. EG#BbDF or a plain E9 chord i.e. EG#BDF#.

Now, if we are to approach the Fma7 chord from Gb [I said Gb and not F# because Gb tends to an F while F# tends to a G when resolving], then we might be implying the tritone sub of a C7 chord, because C and Gb are tritone pairs. Any Gb dominant chord, altered or not, would work just fine.

Gb7#5#9 would be good to lead to an Fmaj7 chord:
LH/RH: Gb/BbDFbA [enharmonically equivalent to GbBbDEA].

As per voicings, you can try the Diatone Voicing or the Tritone Voicing, both based on quartal harmony.

[LH/RH voicings used below]
E7#5#9 can be voiced as EG#/DGC [Ditone Voicing] and G#D/GCE or DG#/CEG [Tritone Voicings].

Gb7#5#9 can be voiced as GbBb/EAD [Ditone Voicing] and BbE/ADGb or EBb/DGbA [Tritone Voicings].

Okay. That's enough already.

Let me know what you think.

HUMBLEKEYZ

7-3-6-2-5-1-4 In the Key of Ab

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7-3-6-2-5-1-4 In the Key of Ab

L.H:   G/D
R.H:  F-A-Bb-d

C chord

L.H:  C/E
R.H:  Bb-Db-Gb (Raise the Gb to G to give it some flava😉)

F minor chord
L.H:  F/C
R.H: Ab-C-Eb-G

Bb Minor chord

L.H:   Bb/F
R.H:   Ab-C-Db-F

Eb chord

L.H:   Eb/B
R.H:  A-C-Db-F

Ab major 

L.H: Ab/Db
R.H:  Ab-Db-Eb-Ab (resolve on moving the Db to C)

Db chord

L.H:   Db/Ab
R.H:  C-Eb-F-Ab

Note: LH means LEFT HAND while RH means RIGHT

HUMBLEKEYZ

Piano tips for Sunday's ministration

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Hello everyone and welcome to our blog. Today i will be showing you PREFERRED CHORDS TIPS  FOR SUNDAY 

WORSHIP MINISTRATION. 
This tips will give you guidelines  to sound professional when ministration. 
Good luck..  

PREFERRED CHORDS TIPS  FOR SUNDAY 

WORSHIP MINISTRATION

        

 Doh chord
Lefth hand.         Right hand

Do - mi - so.             Do - mi - so

❌❌not preferred ❌❌

Left hand.              Right hand

Do - so - do.           Mi - so - ti - mi

    ✅✅preferred ✅✅

Lah chord

Left hand.       Right hand

La - do - mi.          La - do - mi

❌❌not preferred ❌❌

Left hand.              Right hand

La - mi - lah.      Do - mi - so - ti

✅✅preferred ✅✅

Tor chord

Left hand.              Right hand

Tor - re - fa.               So - to - re

❌❌not preferred ❌❌

Left hand.              Right hand
Re - La.             Fa - tor - do - fa
                  *Or*
Tor fa la.               Re fa toh re

✅✅preferred ✅✅

Zih chord

Left hand.             Right hand

Mih - ti - mi         zi - tor - re - soh

✅✅preferred ✅✅

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Tips two

➤ sometime in a song you can substitute the *doh chord* with the *fah chord* and then replace the *fah chord* with *tor chord*✅✅✅✌😉✌

➤During worship set the voice of the piano as *Grand piano* or *e-piano*  and dual it with *Synth strings* increase the volume of the string to a bit lower or higher from the grand piano. 😉😉✌

➤ During worship avoid running scale much so as to avoid distractions from congregation connecting to their maker. *Arpeggio chords* are preferred✅✅✅✌✌

 ➤ When you notice someone singing off during, don't stop immediately. Just lower the piano and search for the key chromatically. ✅✅✅✅😉😉

➤ Be in church in time and pray before the program.   😉😉✌✌

Have a blessed Sunday

Humblekeyz

Passing chords and note to the 6th chord

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Hello everyone and welcome to our blog. Today i will be showing you passing chord and note to the sixth chord (lah chord)

When playing and moving to the 6th chord which is the lah chord. You can try this movement

Passing chords 1

Left hand note ..... Di reh moi me. (single note)

Right hand chord... Ti reh fih lah (chord)

Left hand. Zi   fah (chord)

Right hand zi ti reh so (chord)

Left hand.. La Mi (chord)

Right hand so ti do mi







Passing chords 2

Left hand note ..... Di reh moi me. (single note)

Right hand chord... Ti reh fih lah (chord)

Left hand. Zi   fah (chord)

Right hand zi ti reh so (chord)

Left hand.. Ti so La  (chord)

Right hand.... Re fih so tih

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Embarrassing moment you should avoid before performances

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Hello everyone and welcome to our blog. Today i will be highlighting you tips that you should know so as to avoid embarrassment while on stage.

I want you to take note all this tip am going to list below are coming out of my experiences.

You have to also know that is not until you know how to play all keys on the piano that makes you a pianist, you should always develop the habit of keeping good stage performances, this makes you  professional too.

Using my self as an example, when i started i could remember that i do a lot rehearsal on stage performances and this has been what is keeping people wanting of me.





Read also: 5 steps that make you famous as a pianist.

Now back to what we are discussing earlier, i will give you tips below that will help manage your stage performances so as to avoid embarrassment while performing on stage.


THINGS YOU MUST DO ON STAGE BEFORE PERFORMANCES 
  
1.  CHECK THE TRANSPOSE BUTTON

Hey am not condemning people who transpose, this is just a simple precaution you should follow because many has fall for this.

 I was invited to a program, a musician was told to handle someone ministration, then he ask he bassist what key he was playing, the bassist told him, i could not imagine if this guy have a good here, you need to see how obvious this was. The issue was just because the other pianist that performed last was on transpose and this guy forgot to check.
So my advice for you first is to switch off the piano so as to reset every functions made on the piano.


2. THE PITCH-BEND

This is similar to the transpose effect. I think this occurs frequently, you  must have this in mind that most pitch bend increases and decreases 3 semitone range Depending on the setting range.






Read also: list of chords and their uses

Now base on what i have experienced so far, if you are playing a faulty pitch bend piano, you need to be careful with your listening because the note pitch might increase anytime and this will cause  a lot distractions, embarrassment etc. So it better you confirm first  about the piano you are to play from the stage musicians.

Read also: how to apply accidental when playing a song

3. Have you ever performed and you notice that after performing there was an off beat playing from the piano you were playing?
This has happened many times and many has fall  victim to this experience.

To be continued..

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HOW TO SET YOUR PIANO TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE FOR WORSHIP

Welcome to our tutorial blog, today I will be revealing to you secrete that most concert pianist uses that create a powerful atmosphere for worship.

The power behind powerful worship songs, sometimes comes from the instrumentation. I found out that most pianist are very good in scoring songs and very good in improvising but when playing worship song they find it difficult in creating the atmosphere for worship.

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You might have been to a concert where an artist is been called up to minister a song, then what you hear next is a background sound that will just want to make you fall flat to worship and pour out your self to God. Yes there is a secrete  to that.

So today I will be showing you secrete that will help you create a worship atmosphere where playing a worship song.

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    If you are playing Yamaha keyboard, this tip will be very easy for you because most Yamaha keyboard have this functions.

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Firstly, in the piano there is something called M VOICE D VOICE  and  S VOICE.  If you have not come across such in the piano, go to the function and find it there.

M means  MAIN.  Which is the first layer of the tone.
so you might across such like M VOLUME, M OCTAVE, M RELEASE, M ATTACK, etc.

The M function control and the function of the main tone.




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D  means DUAL,  which is the second layer of the voice. So you might come across D VOIVE D OCTAVE D RELEASE etc.

Now you can choose your M VOICE or MAIN VOICE as Grand piano or E-piano but I would prefer grand piano.  Then locate the function and search for  M VOLUME, increase of reduce the volume to the range from 90 – 115 as your choice.

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Secondly, from the function locate the D voice  and choose STRINGS OR SYTH STRINGS . I would prefer SYTH STRINGS.
Then go to the D VOLUME   and make it the range from 90 – 100 or more  precisely.
NOTE: both the M an the  D volume can be increase or decrease anytime you wish. And please take not of the volume.

Read also: LIST OF CHORDS AND THERE NOTE


Recent keyboard now, might have different functions. You might see  RIGHT 1 RIGHT 2 AND LEFT.
 The RIGHT 1 also means the M VOICE.

The RIGHT  2 also means the D VOICE

So after all the set up, all you need to do is to switch on the dual. The dual button can be seen where all the buttons are located.

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Piano exercise you must do everyday

Welcome to our piano tutorial blog, today we will be showing you secretes that will help you improve your speed and make you fast when moving chromatically on the piano.

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SIMPLE EXERCISES THAT ADD TO YOUR FINGERINGS EVERYDAY.


Like what i do tell my student, piano keys is just like any cell phone button, the more time you spend on the keys the more your fingers become flexible.
For instance, i could remember the first time i started typing with my PC, it took me several hours just to type a note book page. But as time goes on' the more time i spend on my PC, the more i become flexible. Same goes o the piano. Playing the keyboard everyday an mastering your scale also help you improve your speed.  So i will be giving you first exercise to do on the piano every day before playing the any song on the piano. I guarantee you that this will help and change your chord movement. Make   this tips part of you just the way you wake up in the morning and you brush your mouth first before you eat anything. Well i just Hope and Believe you will do so.


Read also: how to find key to a song 

FINGER EXERCISE TO DO EVERY  DAY WITH YOUR PIANO 





This finger exercise should be done with your two hand Both in parallel and contrary movement.

1. DO REH MIH FAH SOH LAH TIH DO

2. REH MIH FAH SOH LAH TIH DOH REH

3. MIH FAH SOH LAH TIH DOH REH MIH

4. FAH SO LAH TIH DOH REH MIH FAH

5. SOH LAH TIH DOH REH MIH FAH SOH

6. LAH TIH DOH REH MIH FAH SOH LAH

7. TIH DOH REH MIH FAH SOH LAH TIH

Read also: chord voicing for "You are wothy to be praise"

This major scale exercise should be done every day. Same also to the minor scale, the same logic should be apply to in both parallel and contrary.

Parallel movement means both finger should move chromatically in the same direction

Contrary movement means hand should move chromatically in different direction.


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I surrender all piano cover by D PLUS ...Must watch...

A popular pianist named adebayo ajayi aka D PLUS uploaded a must watch video on social Maria which has gone viral. 

He video himself playing i surrender all and this video kept many pianist worried. 

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Chord voicings for YOU ARE WORTHY TO BE PRAISE

Today i will be showing you chord voicing you can apply when playing the worship song tittle  "you are worthy to be praise".

Note: this voicings can also be applied in any other song. soi urge to to get better understand for chord voicing.

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LYRICS FOR YOU ARE WORTHY TO BE PRAISE.

you are worthy to be praise

you are worthy to be praise 

my Redeemer

you are worthy to be praise

Chord voicings for  YOU ARE WORTHY TO BE PRAISE

Note: L H  means left hand   and     R H means right hand.

YOU ARE

SOH  X2 (single note)

WORTHY

L H

LAH OCTAVE (LAH - LAH)

R H

DOH - FAH - SOH - DOH 

TO BE

L H

TIH OCATAVE

R H

REH - SO - LAH - REH

PRAISE

LH

DOH octave

R H

MI - LAH -TI - MI

Read also: how to play on all the 12 keys (shortcut)

YOU ARE

SOH  X2 (single note)

WORTHY

L H

LAH OCTAVE (LAH - LAH)

R H

DOH - FAH - SOH - DOH 
Click here to learn circle of fourth

TO BE

L H

TIH OCATAVE

R H

REH - SO - LAH - REH

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PRAISE

LH

Dih (FLATTED REH OR FLAT 2 ) octave

R H

MI - LAH -TI - MI

MY

lh

Doh octave

rh

soh do reh  soh

RE -

LH

reh octave

rh

FAH - TOR - DOH - FAH

DEE

LH

DOH OCTAVE

RH

MI LA TI MI

MER , YOU ARE

Lh

Tih octave

Rh

REH - SO - LAH - REH

WORTHY

L H

LAH OCTAVE (LAH - LAH)

R H

DOH - FAH - SOH - DOH 

TO BE

L H

TIH OCATAVE

R H

REH - SO - LAH - REH

Read also:

how to play 1-2-3-4-2-5-1 chord progression

PRAISE

LH

DOH octave

R H

MI - SO - DO

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HOW TO FIND A KEY TO A SONG

Hello, welcome to our piano tutorial blog.

Today we will be opening your mind to something most pianist find difficult which is finding keys to songs when playing the piano.

As a beginner facing issues like this, i will say it's a normal challenge. Sometimes finding keys might take time, it's a stage everyone will go through. All you need to do is to listen and play. 

If you are reading this post and you are facing this challenge, good news for you because after reading this post the battle will be over , I GUARANTEE you

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At this point try to take away anything that will cause distractions and concentrate more on this topic.

Please for the short time, i want you to borrow me your ear, attention and attitudes.

Before we proceed, we will be doing an exercise for ear training.

Let make use of our private homes as an example to this.

Have you ever taught about what makes you identify the difference and how to tell which kitchen utensil falls on the ground. For instance, you are sleeping and a stainless plate or a breakable plate falls on the ground, what makes you identify the sound and the instrument producing the sound.

The answer is very simple. It because your ears are familiar with the sound of the instrument. Just as you can identify the voice of your friends, parent, relations etc.

Same goes to the piano

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you must make your ears be familiar with all the note. I encourage you to begin with the major and minor scales.

HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR MUSICAL HEARING

The easiest way to help your ears are

1. Play a note on the piano and listen very well to the note

2. Try to produce the sound of the note using your mouth.

3. increase the pitch of the note either a semitone higher or a tone higher. 

4. listen very well to the note and try to produce the sound of the note using your mouth.

5. Play a broken chord e.g DO - MI - SO, or any other chord and try to sound the note using your mouth.

6. Do this all the time.

Read also: How to play on all the 12 keys on the piano.

Doing this all the time will help you your ears improve more to musical sounds

So we will be introducing to you steps that you should use to find the key to a song.

STEPS ON HOW TO FIND THE KEY TO A SONG

1. LISTEN TO THE MUSIC OFTEN.

Before finding the key to a song, first thing you have to do is to listen to the song often so as to become familiar with the voicing and the punches.

If you are a beginner i will sincerely advice you to listen to the song up to 5 times and sing along.

2. FIND A NOTE THAT RHYME WITH THE SONG

After listening to the song over and over, find a note on the piano that rhymes with the song after that check the next note from the one you found a in a semitone movement, to check if it also rhyme with the song. If no then try a tone movement, any of the movement must rhyme the note unless if the note you found at the first time is note correct.

DO - RE (TONE)

RE - MI (TONE)

MI - FA (SEMITONE)

FA - SO (TONE)

SO - LA (TONE)

LA - TI (TONE)

TI - DO (SEMITONE)

So anytime you notice a semitone movement, what should come to your mind is either MI - FA or TI - DO

if you notice a tone movement follow the above movement.

3. PLAY A MAJOR SCALE FROM THE SEMITONE OR TONE NOTE TO LOCATE THE ROOT.

After you have locate the note movement, assume that the is any solfa for instance if the note is a semitone movement, assume it to be MI or TI so as to complete the scale using a major scale movement to locate the root and that's all.

Hope you understood all we treated today?
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watch gospel chord movment by D SUS

A Nigeria pianist called Daniel aka D SUS posted a video of himself playing a popular Nigeria song. introducing new chords movement for gospel songs. watch video below.

Diminished triad. (exercise 16)

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     The Diminished triad is also know as minor flatted fifth, it consist of  two  two minor thirds above the root. 

 Structure Of The Diminished Chords. 

The diminished chord are made up of 

1. The root note 
2. The flatted third of the root
3. The flatted fifth note

 The Diminished 7th Chords.
 The diminished 7th chord consist of two Tri-tones

There are three major structures of a diminish 7th chord.They include

1. C - Eb - Gb - A
    
   
2. Db - E - G - Bb 
   
    
3.  D - F - Ab - B
    
   

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5 STEPS THAT MAKES YOU FAMOUS AS A PIANIST

 Hello, welcome to our piano blog, today we will be discussing five steps that makes you famous as a pianist. After all the researches I have done I found out there are many pianist  that are very good in playing the piano but they all have similar issues which is creating awareness (been famous). Few of them are well known while most of them are still in the dark .I spoke to one of them and he said:

 “how can I be famous when there are better pianists who plays better than I do”.

  I made him understood that it’s not all about being famous but what the world needs is what you have to offer (creativity), once this is accepted then you get the fame you desire.

Here is the chart chain process to be famous.

PERSON Step 1  → PERSON PRODUCT Step 2  →  PRODUCT  ACCEPTED  Step 3 →    PAID PRODUCT  Step 4

I want you to answer this few questions below:

  ⇛ Do you have style of creativity to offer to the world?

  ⇛  If your audiences are up to 10,000, do you know how to manage your audiences, to keep them wanting more of you?

          Remember as a pianist your product is your style and creativity of playing the piano.

For instance let take the Nike Company for instance, when you see the symbol of Nike (✔) you can easily identify its product.

         As pianist what do you have that people can easily identify your product? It could be that you can place different chords in a simple song or you can run different scales very fast and it could even be that you make nice song arrangement.

NOTE:  it could be anything you know how to do best.

        For instance when you hear of Cory Henry, the first thing that comes to your mind in describing him, might be the way he plays his chords and the speed he applies when playing his scales. Now that you know his style, i think you should have something in mind about yourself.

       
Read also: Secrete Piano Execise You Must Do Everyday

  Let me use myself as an example, I found out that what I love doing most is teaching the piano and that is what am offering to the world and I am well known for this. The same goes to you, once you find out you product (style) as a pianist. Today am going to introduce 5 steps to make you famous as a pianist.

There are many ways to advertise yourself to the world all you need to do is to follow this steps below.

Read also: HOW TO FIND KEY TO A SONG 

 5 STEPS THAT MAKES YOU FAMOUS AS A PIANIST

1.      STOP TRANSPOSE ( be flexible on all keys)

As a pianist that wants to mentor people, the first step you should make on the piano is  playing on all the 12 keys perfectly. I found out that most pianists are not good on the 12keys in the piano which is very bad. If you think that playing all the magic on a key is what makes you a pianist, you are totally wrong. You've not started at all. You need to go back and perfect all the keys.   

You can click here to learn how to play all the 12keys very fast and easy.
     
   Playing on all the 12keys gives you the confidence and boldness to play and speak out anywhere at anytime. Once you can play a song on all the keys people around will notice you and keep talking about you even the top and the young ones around you will talk of you anytime and anywhere. Let put a driver as an example; when you enter a bus and you find out that the driver only knows how to start the bus and control the steering  but doesn’t know how to control the gear and the brake, I know the way you would leave the bus won’t be the way you entered the bus. The same is applied to the piano, you won’t get enough audience even if you are a master on one key, so practice all the keys daily and you will become excellent on all keys. Like the saying goes practices make perfect.

2.      LISTEN TO SONGS AND SCORE AS MANY AS YOU CAN

 

One of the things I find so interesting in scoring songs is that, you can learn different techniques from different pianist which can lead to your own creativity. When you score different songs well, your playing will be worth listening to and will sound professional to the hearers. What helps a good pianist improve better is the time he spends on materials either in written words or video. When you can play different songs you get more people attracted to you from your local community. And playing those songs you score on all keys changes your mindset. Automatically you attract more audience from your performance.

Read alao: CHORD VOICING FOR YOU ARE WORTGY TO BE PRAISE

3.      GET A MENTOR, SOMEONE THAT INSPIRES YOU

 


You can search for different pianist online either with Google or any search engine and look for any pianist you look forward to be like or sound better. I can guarantee you it helps a lot. Cory Henry posted on his wall about his music life, he said that he took time to study more from his mentor, so you can also develop the same attitude towards your piano lifestyle.

What you have to do is to get their materials free online or you can buy them e.g. you can buy good materials by Kelvin Coley on www.prettysimplemusic.com.

4.      MAKE YOUR OWN ARRANGEMENT

   Making your own arrangement is a simple task. All you have to do is to combine what you know how to play in a limited time that someone can listen and be challenged to try it what they heard you played. That is your creativity at this juncture what you played will be what will make you famous. 

Read aslo:  Diminished traid 

  All you need to do is to get your style of playing video, record it and share with people. One of the best way you can share your video is on social media e.g Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter e .t .c. where you can even create a page where people can visit. For instance, I created a facebook page for this blog so as to inform all my audience when there is a new post.  Click this link to join our page www.facebook.com/pianistworld

5.      EXPLORE

 

 Of course you know that you can’t stay in a particular  place to advertise your product. So you need to move from one place to another in other to attract more audience across your community. At this juncture you need to go for shows, programs, competitions, concerts e .t .c you can start by creating a band and give yourselves a unique name that is not known. You can make nice arrangement with your band and show it by performing it anywhere you go, it a platform to get started. 

At least by now you can get up to 10,000 fans across the world if you follow this steps.   

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