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General Piano Lessons

Chords – Part 2

Part two of my continuing video tutorials about chords is now available on YouTube:     [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCvHrSsyDWY?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349] This video gives an intro to chords that have more than 3 notes, like 7th and 9th chords. Any comments or questions, feel free to ask.

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Piano Lessons

Practicing the piano, some suggestions

One approach for beginning to intermediate level students. This article contains some suggestions on how to practice the piano. These are geared toward pianists from the absolute beginner to intermediate level. This is only one of many approaches to practicing, but all the suggestions are worth applying to your practice routine. First a brief comment. […]

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New sheet-music

Four new titles are now available in the music catalog at the website. These titles are for solo organ, solo piano, instrumental solo with piano accompaniment and an organ hymn accompaniment/alternate harmonization. O Day Of Radiant Gladness jamesgilbertmusic.com/catalog.php?sid=OR22 This arrangement is based on a German folk tune, also known under the hymn tune name ES […]

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Me playing the piano

Here’s a video of me playing the piano. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LU7478Ir0w] Some people who haven’t seen me play the piano in a while (if ever) wanted me to put up a video of me playing the piano. This video shows me making up some music off the top of my head one day as I wait […]