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Silvan Zingg Honky Tonk Train Blues Piano Solo Improvisation Great Video

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Silvan Zingg plays “Honky Tonk Train Blues” at The Hamburg Boogie Woogie Connection in the Hamburger Fabrik on the 8 and 9 August 2013. Zingg is truly a Blues master, with well developed melodies and steady left hand with a nice variety of rhythmic variations. This is a terrific example of a well constructed and polished Blues style.

Lots of my piano lesson students enjoy learning Blues improvisation at my student here in Portland. We start at the very beginning and progress through various styles of playing. Everything we do is playing by ear. There is no music involved in Blues. For students who already read music, learning the Blues is a new experience. It takes a bit of time to get used to relying on one’s ear to guide the direction of a 12 Bar Blues. Once a student realizes that there is no limit to what they can do, they get a lot more comfortable with the overall concept.

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Video – Bach Minuet in G – Beginning Classical Piano Lessons

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A video of a student playing Minuet in G, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach wrote this piece as one of 16 songs that he presented to his wife, Anna Magdalena Bach, as a gift.

Learning to play piano or keyboard begins with reading music. As beginning piano lessons expand from the basics, they will have a better idea what kind of music they enjoy playing. There are so many great styles of music to choose from. Classical music is one of the most popular, and Bach is a great composer to learn from. The Minuet in G is one of the pieces that students play when first learning to play classical music on the piano. There are 16 songs in this first Bach songbook.

Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the fathers of German Baroque music. In addition to composing and arranging hundreds of songs, Bach played organ, harpsichord, and stringed instruments. His multitude of compositions and arrangements for choir, orchestra, keyboards, strings, and horns are a library of the very best music from that era. Bach is known for his flawless composing technique and tremendous skill in complex voicings. In Europe, his reputation all as an organist contributed to his great success. Some of his well known works include; The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Partitas, The Art of Fugue, the English and French Suites, and the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin.

Bach’s large collection of works stand today as a tribute to his masterful creativity. He is considered today a true musical genius, and one of the grandest composers ever.

Johann Sebastian Bach