How to play the dance garth brooks piano

Sheet Music Downloads at Musicnotes.com

Share The Music

Limited Time!

Top Songs Top Songs
New Songs New Songs
Recommended
Recommended

Get back to the music faster with Musicnotes! Just choose your sheet music from our catalog of over 400,000 high-quality arrangements for every instrument, skill level, and scoring. Then, checkout and print instantly in any available key. Plus, access your sheet music library anywhere with our free iOS, Mac, Android, and PC apps!

Find Your Song

Explore 400,000+ professional arrangements.

Print Instantly

Get your music in your hands in minutes.

Access Anywhere

Take your music with you in our free interactive apps.

Join Musicnotes Pro and Save!

Musicnotes Pro is the best way to save big on your favorite sheet music! Join thousands of musicians worldwide and discover huge savings today with a Musicnotes Pro membership.

	Musicnotes	Musicnotes Pro
Find your favorite music fast
Access 400,000+ professional arrangements
Transpose instantly
Print at home in seconds
Access your music easily in the Musicnotes App
Playback, loop and markup your music
Sync folders and setlists across all apps
Get PDF downloads free with every purchase
Get exclusive member-only coupons
Save $1 on every purchase in our apps
Save 15% on all music at musicnotes. com
Up to 24 free titles of your choice each year

Join Pro Today!

All-access pass into the art of songwriting

Song Spotlight is your all-access pass into the art of songwriting. We bring intimate live performances and fascinating musical insight straight from the artist to you, musician-to-musician.

Watch More Song Spotlights

What Our Customers Are Saying

I am a Steinway and Sons artist, have sold millions of recordings and had over 30 White House performances. Requests were made at a White House party for some Stevie Wonder tunes so I immediately pulled out my iPad, summoned Musicnotes and bought sheet music for "Overjoyed" and "Ribbon in the Sky". Your company has made me look great in so many performances. Thank you for this fabulous gift musicnotes is to performers.

- David Osborne, Steinway Artist and "Pianist to the Presidents"

I sing some of the most current songs thanks to Musicnotes. I do not know how I would be able to find such great quality piano pieces and such an affordable price anywhere else. I love that I can find basically any song I want in your wide variety of music. I am also glad that you give a preview of the song so I can hear it before I buy it. This site is such a huge help to my performing abilities and is the ONLY site that I will buy sheet music from.

- Z. Schaffer, High School Student

As a piano bar performer I must try to play all requests. I need the sheet music now, today, while it is hot and can earn me tips. I don't have time to find it in a collection or something containing songs I already have, or to wait for the Post Office to deliver it to me. With Musicnotes I can order it, pay for it, and have it in minutes. I can use the song that night & make a better living.

- G. Fitzgerald, Piano Bar Performer

From the Musicnotes Blog

Celebrating 50 Million Sheet Music Downloads

& Over 8 Million Customers Around the Globe

As the world leader in digital sheet music, Musicnotes is proud to offer the best selection of 100% officially licensed and legal arrangements through our premier online sheet music store, covering all major instruments for musicians of every skill level. We partner with music publishers of all sizes throughout the world, maintaining a longstanding commitment to support songwriters, artists and our music publishing partners.

♩

Sheet Music Downloads at Musicnotes.com

Share The Music

Limited Time!

Top Songs Top Songs
New Songs New Songs
Recommended
Recommended

Find Your Song

Find the sheet music you’re looking for—from beginner to pro, Bach to Prince, and banjo to piano—available in any key.

Print Instantly

Checkout and print instantly from your desktop or mobile device with our quick and easy purchase process.

Access Anywhere

Play, transpose and mark up your sheet music anywhere with our free interactive apps for iOS, Android, Mac and PC.

The Musicnotes Difference

Feature	Musicnotes	Elsewhere
Find and purchase sheet music online
Library of more than 400,000 arrangements
Print in originally published key
Print instantly in any available key
Arrangements transposed and proofed by musicians
Will show a full, first page preview
Access sheet music in iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Web apps
Playback, loop, and markup in-app
forScore integration
Live chat customer support

All-access pass into the art of songwriting

Song Spotlight is your all-access pass into the art of songwriting. We bring intimate live performances and fascinating musical insight straight from the artist to you, musician-to-musician.

Watch More Song Spotlights

What Our Customers Are Saying

- David Osborne, Steinway Artist and "Pianist to the Presidents"

- Z. Schaffer, High School Student

- G. Fitzgerald, Piano Bar Performer

From the Musicnotes Blog

Celebrating 50 Million Sheet Music Downloads

& Over 8 Million Customers Around the Globe

♩♩♩

Piano lessons for beginners

Gather your courage - it's time to start learning! Before you sit in front of the instrument, leave all the negativity somewhere to the side and concentrate as much as possible. It would seem that things that are simple at first glance will still have time to present you with many surprises, but most importantly, do not lose heart if something does not work out for you the first time. The second important advice is don't rush, Moscow wasn't built right away either. (But if suddenly you are already studying at a music school and ended up on this page by accident, it will certainly be useful for you to read about the fifth circle of keys - a topic that is usually difficult for students to master in practice).

In principle, it is not so important what type of keyboard instruments you will be learning on, but I would strongly recommend that you still choose the piano: synthesizers, although more compact, have a significant drawback - most of them have keys reduced type, they are not full-bodied and you will not feel "rebound" and, on top of that, they are often limited to three or four octaves.

And one more thing, I promise you right away - limit yourself to this lesson of our Tutorial for now, do not forget that this is just a piano for beginners. Do not immediately try to embrace the immensity in a day - this will only bring harm.

It would even be better for you to repeat for several days only the material that you learn from here. And when you are ready, you will feel it yourself. Often people who can play the synthesizer quickly and fluently have trouble playing the same parts on the piano. But in the opposite direction, this rule will work accordingly: for those who played the piano, the synthesizer will seem much easier to perform.

Content of article

Notes and keys
Accidentals - changes in pitch
Musical scales: playing the scale C major and others
- Conclusion

quickly press the notes and blacks on the 9002 keys with the note 9002!

I bet you didn't make it. The impression that since the piano keys are arranged in the order Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si, then it is not worth the trouble to understand them is a profound delusion. I am completely silent about the black keys!

Position of notes on the keys

Look carefully and remember - these are the basics of the basics that you will need to know first. Play the notes, naming them, over time you will be able to instantly determine the location of any note, in the future, when you start studying chords, you will thank me more than once for focusing your attention on such a seemingly lightness.

Don't be afraid, I didn't forget about the black keys, but here you need a little understanding of the theory, but you need to start somewhere, right?

At this stage, you already need to know the concept of interval. Intervals are the difference between two sounds of a certain pitch.

Accidentals - pitch changes

Semitone - the smallest unit in the measurement of intervals. On the piano, these are, for example, the keys Do and Do Sharp, in the absence of black keys, a semitone will be an adjacent sound, like Mi and Fa, for example. By the way, on stringed instruments, a semitone will be adjacent frets along one common string. Piano halftone arrangement

No, # is not the touch tone icon on the phone. Sharp (#) and Flat (b) are the so-called accidentals, denoting the rise and fall of a certain note by a semitone. So, flats and sharps will be not only notes on black keys:

Mi # = Fa
Fa b = Mi
C# = Up to
To b = C

As mentioned earlier, the rise and fall of fundamental notes is called alteration. There are five accidental signs: sharp, double-sharp, flat, double-flat and bekar. They are written like this:

Accidentals

The effect of accidentals on the pitch of notes is:

Sharp - raises the pitch of a note by a semitone
Flat - lowers by the same amount
Double sharp - raises by a whole tone
Double flat - lowers by the same amount
Bekar - cancels the effect of the previous sign on the same ruler. The note becomes clear.

Accidentals can be of different range - "key" and "oncoming" or "random". The first are placed immediately by a whole group next to the key, to the right of it, each on its own ruler. Always in a certain order. Sharps in the key are written as follows:

F-do-sol-re-la-mi-si

Keyed flats are written in the following order: si-mi-la-re-sol-do-fa

Key signs act on all notes in their line that can occur throughout the work, and even regardless of the octave. For example, the key sharp “fa” will raise all the notes of “fa” without exception, in all octaves and throughout the entire length of the piece.

Oncoming signs are valid only on their own line, only in their own octave and only during ONE STROKE (as road signs are valid only up to the first intersection). For example, an oncoming backer can cancel the effect of even a key character, but only for the current measure and only on this ruler. Counter signs are placed to the left of the head of the note that needs to be altered. This can be seen in the following figure.

So, I hope you have a general idea of accidental signs. It only remains to add that tone is the next highest value after semitone . Well, I think you already guessed that Tone = 2 semitones That is, a note one tone higher from Do will be Re, and a note one tone higher from Mi will be Fa #.

Remember the information given above - it is not very difficult, but will be needed everywhere. And we will use it immediately! I will try to explain everything as clearly as possible.

Musical Scales: Playing the C Major Scale and Others

Harmony is a pleasant harmony of notes for our ears. Key is a set of certain notes subordinate to one main note.

The first thing you need to know, based on the knowledge gained, is the construction of major scales.

scales are notes that are arranged in a certain order. The difference between major and minor is often explained to children as "happy" and "sad" scales, respectively, but this is not completely true - nothing prevents making sad songs in major and vice versa. Here are their main signs:

Scales built from 8 notes
First and Eighth, last, notes are the same in name, but different in pitch (pure octave)
Notes are played in strict order, the minimum distance between them is a semitone, and the maximum distance is a tone.

Remember carefully, with this simple formula you can play any major scale:

Tone - Tone - Semitone - Tone - Tone - Tone - Semitone

To make it easier:

2 Tones - Semitone - 3 Tones - Semitone

a lot of do, but c'est la vie!).

At the first stage, you will need to know 3 scales: C major, G major and F major.

Major scales are played with the following fingers: Large (1) → Index (2) → Middle (3) → (“tuck” thumb) → Large (1) → Index (2) → Middle (3) → Ring (4) → Little finger (5)

Then be sure to play backwards in reverse order: Little finger (5) → Ring finger (4) → Middle (3) → Index (2) → Large (1) → (“throw” the middle (3) finger to the position in front of the thumb finger (1)) → Middle (3) → Index (2) → Large (1)

Finger numbering for musicians

Important! It is highly desirable to play scales in 2 octaves, and it will look like this:

For the right hand (1) → (2) → (3) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (4) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (4) → (5) And then, respectively, in the opposite direction: (5) → (4) → (3 ) → (2) → (1) → (3) → (2) → (1) → (4) → (3) → (2) → (1) → (3) → (2) → (1)

Left hand (5) →(4) → (3) → (2) → (1) → (3) → (2) → (1) → (4) → (3) →(2) → (1) → (3) → (2) → (1) Conversely, as you, I hope, have already understood and remembered, according to the same principle: (1) → (2) → (3) → (1) → ( 2) → (3) → (4) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (4) → (5)

Attention: there are exceptions to all rules!

In this case, everything will be so, but more on that later. The F major scale will be played differently. So that you don’t get completely confused, look at the pictures below - after them you definitely shouldn’t have any questions left!

C major (C dur) - without accidentals

Scale C dur - without accidentals

G major (G dur) - accidental one - F #  Scale G dur with accidental sign F #

F major ( F dur) – accidental sign one — Si b

That's the very exception to the rule! If you try to play this scale according to a given scheme, you yourself will understand how inconvenient it is. Especially for her, when playing with the right hand (only with the right, everything is played with the left as usual !!!) a different sequence of fingers is used:

For right hand :

(1) → (2) → (3) → (4) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (4) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (4)

And then, respectively, in the opposite direction:

(4) → (3) → (2) → (1) → (4) → (3) → (2) → (1) → (3) → (2) → (1) → (4) → (3) → (2) → (1)

For left hand : (5) →(4) → (3) → (2) → (1) → (3) → (2) → (1) → (4) → (3) → (2) → (1) → (3) → (2) → (1)

Conversely, as I hope you have already understood and remembered, according to the same principle: (1) → (2) → (3) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (4) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (1) → (2) → (3) → (4) → (5)

Scale F dur - accidental sign C b

First, hone and remember well how these scales are played - the next lesson will be devoted to the basics of musical notation.

Conclusion

Don't try to play scales very quickly right away - it's better to do it rhythmically, because the brain remembers information better if you learn to do anything at a slow speed. Subsequently, the speed will appear by itself, but first it is important to bring everything to automatism.

Playing scales, you will be able to direct your fingers just as freely, without hesitation, you will easily improvise with other musicians or compose your own melodies.

Good luck with this difficult first step in learning to play the piano for beginners![adinserter block="5″]

How to learn to play the piano yourself.

Playing your favorite tunes, learning movie songs, entertaining friends at parties, and even just helping your child learn music are some of the reasons to learn to play the piano on your own. Moreover, now there are digital instruments that do not clutter up the room, have headphone outputs and allow you to play without uninvited listeners.

Learning to play the piano is not as difficult as it seems, but not as easy as, say, rollerblading. You can't do without a couple of expert advice. Therefore, there are a lot of tutorials, video tutorials and other assistants. But whichever program you choose, it is important to know and follow a few rules.

Take the online course "Piano Made Easy". Perhaps the best piano course in RuNet.

Rule #1. First theory, then practice.

Most teachers, especially those who work with adults outside the walls of the music school, unanimously say: first theory, then practice!! It is clear that reading literature is far from being as interesting as pressing keys. But if you, especially at first, combine practice and theory equally, then your learning will not come to a standstill after learning a few pop tunes. You will be able to develop in the field of playing the instrument, and sooner or later the moment will come when you will pick up your favorite tunes by ear, create arrangements and even compose your own music.

What is especially important in theory:

1. Music notation . This is a way of conveying sounds using signs on paper. This includes notes, durations, tempo, etc. This knowledge will give you the opportunity to sight-read any piece of music, especially since it is not a problem to find notes of popular melodies now. With knowledge of musical notation, you can learn anything you want - from the American anthem to Adele's songs.
We have a good basic course on our website to achieve goal #1 - "Piano Basics".

2. Rhythm and temp. Music is not just a set of sounds, it is also the order in which they are performed. Any melody obeys some kind of rhythm. Correctly building a rhythmic pattern will help not only training, but also elementary knowledge about what rhythm is, how it happens and how to create it. Rhythm and tempo data in another basic course - Music Fundamentals.

3. Harmony. These are the laws of combining sounds with each other in such a way that it turns out beautifully and pleasantly for hearing. Here you will learn different keys, intervals and scales, the laws of building chords, combinations of these chords, etc. This will help you understand how to independently choose an accompaniment for a melody, create an arrangement, pick up a melody by ear, etc.
After you practice shifting melodies into different keys, picking up accompaniment, the doors to the world of beautiful music, including those composed by yourself, will open before you. There are also tutorials for the kind of master you will become, such as Improvisation on Digital Keyboards.

Rule #2. There should be a lot of practice!

You need to train a lot and often, the best thing is every day! Experienced teachers say that daily classes, even for 15 minutes, are better than 2-3 times a week for 3 hours. If in 15 minutes you still do not have time to study a lot, divide the work into parts and study in pieces, but every day!

Treat training like an athlete treats training! Set aside time when you won't be disturbed and when you will definitely be at home, for example, in the morning before work or in the evening an hour before bedtime (headphones are very useful here). And do not cancel classes, otherwise it will be more difficult to return to them later, and the result is a loss of form and all that you have gained.

What to do in practice:

Learn melodies from notes . Once you've mastered music notation, download sheet music for your favorite tunes online and practice them until you can play without prompting and at the right tempo.
Play “with an orchestra” . Many digital pianos have this feature: an orchestral accompaniment to certain melodies is recorded. You can learn these melodies and play them with an orchestra to develop tempo, rhythm, and ability to play in a group.
“Shift” to other keys . Once you've mastered the harmonies, you can transpose pieces into other keys, choose different accompaniments for them, and even create your own arrangements.
Play the scale every day! This is a great exercise for training your fingers and memorizing keys!

Rule #3. Inspire yourself!

We talked about this when we gave advice on teaching music to children (read here). But it works with adults too.

When the feeling of novelty has passed, the real work will begin and it will become difficult. Often there will not be enough time, you will want to reschedule the lesson for tomorrow, and then for the weekend - and more than once! This is where it is important to inspire yourself.

What to do? Watch videos with your favorite musicians, listen to music that takes your breath away, learn those melodies that make you really “rush”! You need to play and create something that you yourself are interested in listening to.

Once you get something worth playing, play with family and friends, but only to those who will praise you. Critics and "specialists" kick out! The purpose of these “concerts” is to increase your self-esteem, not to abandon classes.

Inspirational video for you:

If you have not yet chosen an instrument for your first steps in the world of music, you can read the articles in our Knowledge Base .

How to play the dance garth brooks piano

Sheet Music Downloads at Musicnotes.com

Find Your Song

Print Instantly

Access Anywhere

Join Musicnotes Pro and Save!

All-access pass into the art of songwriting

What Our Customers Are Saying

From the Musicnotes Blog

Celebrating 50 Million Sheet Music Downloads

Sheet Music Downloads at Musicnotes.com

Find Your Song

Print Instantly

Access Anywhere

The Musicnotes Difference

All-access pass into the art of songwriting

What Our Customers Are Saying

From the Musicnotes Blog

Celebrating 50 Million Sheet Music Downloads

Piano lessons for beginners

quickly press the notes and blacks on the 9002 keys with the note 9002!

Accidentals - pitch changes

Musical Scales: Playing the C Major Scale and Others

Conclusion

How to learn to play the piano yourself.

Rule #1. First theory, then practice.

What is especially important in theory:

Rule #2. There should be a lot of practice!

What to do in practice:

Rule #3. Inspire yourself!

Learn more