Jeremy’s Piano Tips and Tricks

 I guess I’m going to start by assuming that you know a little bit about music theory, ie the names of the notes and a few other things.  What I have found was helpful for me when playing without much music reading ability was to know the notes that you can play in a major scale and the 3 major chords in each. When you know the notes in each major scale, you know what notes you are mostly allowed to play. This will help you when trying to add runs and substance to songs that you are playing.  First off to find out the notes you can play in a major scale, it’s a basic pattern. You know where middle C is. Let’s try to spell out a C major scale. Start at the root note of the scale (in a C major scale, that would be C. A major it would be A, and so on). Then it’s a process of either taking a half step up (the next note to the right) or a whole step up (2 notes to the right). There are 8 notes in a major scale. Starting with the root note, take a whole step, another whole step...

This first post is going to be just one introducing myself, letting you know how I started my musical journey and got to where I am now, and kind of laying out my goals for this blog.  First off, my name is Jeremy, I am 38, and live near Daytona Beach, Florida with my wife and 5-year old son. I work at a grocery store as a baker in the morning, and usually get home in the afternoon and get a little time to do what I would rather do for a profession and play piano for a little bit before everyone comes home.  I don’t really get to play outside very much, just at church on Sundays when I am off, and random stuff I post online. I have a few songs I have written and want to record decent tracks to (maybe you will hear them eventually), and have a working idea of a Christian band with my brother-in-law which is called ‘Resiliency from Obscurity’. If we ever get our act (and schedules) together, we would like to release some original music through that avenue.  My journey to wh...