Matteo Malafronte

Introduction We had left, in the last article, with a quote from Harmony by Walter Piston in which the author related chords and intervals, implicitly introducing us to the triad chord: you can buy the manual we talked about to deepen the contents of this article, piano chords, triads and more complex harmonic concepts, at […]

Introduction Musical intervals are the first tool we have to learn to read music more fluently, since they group two notes into a single musical concept. In a previous article we saw how harmful it is for our ability to read piano reading only one note at a time. Reading by notes taken individually, in

Introduction The Fugue is a fundamental musical experience, an essential poetic-compositional model with which every composer has tried. The great classics of the Primat the Vienna School, namely Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven were very accustomed to this compositional form. Beethoven recovers in the last quartets the Fugue as a fundamental compositional model; even the composers

Introduction The biggest difficulty that you usually have to face when you want to read easy piano scores is that of reading. How nice it would be to know how to read a score as you are reading the words of this article… ! Of course this would allow you to play a lot, a

Introduction, New Year' Piano Sight-Reading for Adult Beginners is the #1 choice manual for pianists who decide to begin their journey in sight-reading and progress to advanced levels: in other words, it's not just for beginners but also for those who want to improve their sight-reading skills and may have already been playing for a

Introduction As we have seen in some previous articles, in the process of reading a score on the piano the note names that make up the Fundamental Scale are usually associated with the double pentagram through precise signs that are called rhythmic signs. We had already observed this in an example that I report below

Introduction Piano Reading Method is the number 1 manual of choice for pianists who decide to start their journey in adulthood and progress to advanced levels: in other words, it is not only reserved for those who start but also for you who want to progress and maybe you have already started playing for a

⚠️ WarningTo follow this guide you must have an 88-key weighted digital keyboard or an 88-key piano. In order not to repeat a thousand times during the article "88-key weighted digital keyboard or 88-key piano", we will refer to both indifferently with the term piano keyboard. Introduction If you do not have a piano keyboard,

Introduction To learn to play the piano while reading the notes on the pentagram you must first associate the white keys of your instrument with the Fundamental Scale. White Keys VS Black Keys To establish this association over time you can not start, as some teachers want you to think, directly from the white keys.

Introduction The pentagram is used exactly like the Fundamental Scale: if we read one at a time lines and spaces upwards, we walk clockwise the same number of names on the Fundamental Scale; vice versa, we walk them counterclockwise.  Pentagram: False Myths Although it is popularly considered a sort of container in which to write