The Reveal

So how did you manage over the last 4 days? Did you sound anything like what I played? Did you manage to create something for yourself that you enjoyed or would feel happy playing for someone? Please head back to your inbox, hit reply and let me know how you managed. The good, the bad,…

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Making our game more melodic

Creative! Welcome to Day 4 of our little piano game. Here’s what I’d like you to try today. Get your left hand in place, just like you had it yesterday. But don’t play anything quite yet. Now, place your right hand where we’ve been playing all week with your 2nd finger on the C above…

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Magic will happen today as we add MORE left-hand notes

Creative! Are you ready for Day 3 of our game? Okay, let’s get started. Get your right hand set on the B-C-G just like yesterday. We should be getting fairly familiar with this by now. Now, you’re going to use the same 6-note pattern… the B-C-G-B-C-G… and you’re going to pick one of 3 left…

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Step 2 of our little piano game

Creative! Welcome to Day 2 of our little game this week. Here’s what I want you to do. First, get your hand in place over the same 3 keys… B-C-G… an octave above middle C. Like this… Now, I want us to use these 3 notes in a specific pattern. Rather than playing any of…

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Let’s play a piano game!

Creative! Welcome to the game! Here’s the first piece of the game. You only need your right hand and the sustain pedal to play with this game piece. First, I want you to find middle C on your piano… than find the C an octave above… and put your 2nd finger (your index finger) on…

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