THE PLAYLIST: MASOCHISTIC PIANISTS. Satanic climaxes, perilous fireworks, duelling fencers: there's nothing quite so seductive to piano students as a nearly unplayable piece of music. Irving Wardle finds some models on iTunes ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Summer 2009 Piano students tend to be difficulty snobs for whom nothing is worth playing unless it’s unplayable. It’s a thrill akin to bull-fighting to look down at a page of Liszt and then observe some reckless newcomer or leathery old slogger heading into the minefield of double-flats, octave marathons, multiple time-signatures, and copious droppings of demisemiquaver fly-shit. If some music arises from this collision, so much the better, as in the following gladiatorial items.
LIGETI: ETUDES Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Sony Classical 1996)Proceed to Track XIII, “L’escalier du diable”, and surrender to those deadly feet coming up the ladder again and again until they reach the top with a satanic climax which ebbs away into the longest dying fall in piano literature. Top 5 Sites For Learning Piano Online. For some reason, whenever you search for anything free online, you are inundated with sites created solely for collecting email addresses or for selling a product.
This is especially true when it comes to sites on the Internet that offer free piano lessons. Unfortunately, almost 90 percent of the websites with “free piano lessons” in the title only offer one or two very basic lessons. Ultimately, they want you to sign up for paid full-length piano lessons. Thankfully, there really are legitimate websites out there that do offer legitimate, free piano lessons. MakeUseOf has always offered some of the best resources for music lessons, such as the review of ZentaoGuitar lessons for learning the electric guitar or Laurence’s list of essential free guitar playing online tools.
Focusing on piano music, I offer MUO readers the following list of the top 5 free piano lesson websites online. The Top 5 Websites for Learning Piano Online Zebra Keys: Everything You Need on One Site. Mega Chords.Com - Oscar Wilde Chords - Company Of Thieves Piano. How to play piano: The basics, Piano Lesson #1. The Easy Way To Learn Piano. Piano lessons usually come from elderly women who don’t approve of your playing, no matter how good you’ve gotten. If you want to learn piano without hearing about how terrible your technique is, the PianoMaestro can help. This device plugs right into your computer, and once you load up a song, it will show you how to play it by shining a light above the key you need to hit when you need to hit it.
You can even slow down the instructions, or focus on either the right or left hand if you like. The best part is that you won’t have to pay PianoMaestro $50 per hour to teach you! Via: www.ohgizmo.com.