| With the advent of the internet there is no longer | | | | music, learning piano songs from classical music to |
| any excuse for not learning music if a person | | | | popular music is one of the most fun things a |
| wants to learn. Learning music online has | | | | person can do. There are piano lessons online |
| revolutionized learning, since it is the first time in | | | | using major chords, minor chords, 7th chords, and |
| history that anyone with a computer can virtually | | | | all kinds of chord progressions. Learning to play |
| find out anything they want to know about music | | | | the piano music of your dreams using piano |
| -- and find out quick! | | | | chords & piano chording techniques is now within |
| There are sites galore teaching everything about | | | | the reach of anyone with an internet connection! |
| music from chords to trombone lessons to drum | | | | And don't forget harmony and music theory -- |
| lessons to music theory lessons to guitar lessons | | | | including scales and fingering of scale and chord |
| to piano lessons, and a whole lot more. Many are | | | | passages in musical scores and sheet music -- it's |
| free while others charge a very reasonable tuition. | | | | all available online. Music history and music |
| But think what a bargain that is; no travel, no | | | | appreciation is important too -- guys like Bach & |
| traffic jams; no rescheduling lessons; no missed | | | | Mozart & Beethoven & Chopin knew what they |
| lessons; and because the lessons are online (or in | | | | were doing -- and we can learn much from them |
| some cases on CD's and DVD's) they can be | | | | and stand on their shoulders simply by accessing |
| replayed over and over until the lesson is | | | | the biggest library in the history of mankind -- the |
| thoroughly learned, which is not the case in a | | | | cyber library of the internet. |
| personal lesson or a college classroom. You have | | | | Here are just a few of the phrases you can |
| one chance to understand, and if you don't, you're | | | | search online that will lead you to sites where you |
| immediately behind the curve and have to do | | | | can learn music online (I have used piano and |
| extra studies to catch up. Not so with online | | | | guitar as an example, but obviously you can |
| music lessons. | | | | search for anything from singing lessons to drum |
| Back just 15 years ago if an individual wanted to | | | | lessons to harp playing and everything in |
| learn music, about the only places he or she could | | | | between): |
| do so would be from a private teacher, a music | | | | * piano lessons |
| school of some sort -- private or public or | | | | * music lessons |
| correspondence, or self-taught from a music | | | | * guitar lessons |
| book. All of which is fine, but slow if an individual is | | | | * guitar chords |
| really chomping at the bit to learn, and learn fast. | | | | * piano chords |
| But today there are literally hundreds of sites on | | | | * how to form chords |
| the internet from which any ambitious person can | | | | * chord piano |
| access and learn virtually anything they want | | | | * play guitar |
| about music. There are sites dealing with music | | | | * play piano |
| instruction for beginners as well as college-level | | | | * learn guitar |
| sites that deal with figured bass and advanced | | | | * learn piano |
| music theory and composition issues, as well as | | | | * guitar playing |
| improvisation and arranging music. | | | | * piano playing |
| For example, there are piano lesson sites that | | | | * learn music online |
| teach how to improvise -- all styles of | | | | You will find that if you type "music lessons online" |
| improvisation including jazz, rock, gospel, new age | | | | into the Google search box, you will come up with |
| music and more. There are piano instruction sites | | | | something like eight million results! "Piano lessons" |
| that shows you how to play piano sheet music as | | | | will call up about a million and a half, while "guitar |
| a map, instead of having to sight read the printed | | | | lessons online" will bring up over two million search |
| music as it is written. By learning how to do this, | | | | results. |
| you can create your own free piano sheet music | | | | With this abundance of material online, there is no |
| by creating a song and then notating it in a music | | | | excuse for anyone who really wants to learn |
| software program such as Finale using piano tabs, | | | | music to not avail themselves of the opportunity, |
| piano chords, and chord symbols. A person can | | | | especially when they realize that this is the first |
| learn to play piano notes by the fist-full by learning | | | | time in the history of the world that this riches of |
| piano chording music styles. | | | | knowledge has been available with just the click of |
| Learning to play the piano, learning to read piano | | | | a mouse. |