Piano Overview
Welcome to DigiPiano Keys. This website mainly focuses on the piano. It’s about understanding music, enjoying music and learning piano. We all, love to hear music. By listening melodious music, someone may like to play the music. People who wants to learn piano, there are many ways. Each one is having their own style of teaching.
At DigiPiano Keys we are mainly guiding people to play the music step by step in simple way.
1. Demo song is played to listen in normal speed.
2. Demonstrated with one hand in slow speed to understand and practice.
3. Played music by both hands in slow speed to understand and practice by both hand.
4. Music is played with staff notation in normal speed. Staff notation is also popularly known as score sheet or musical sheet.
We recommend you to understand and learn staff notation. Staff notation is the only musical language understood in world all over. Musical symbols are in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. The symbols communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form of repeated section and details about specific playing techniques in technical manner.
GRAND PIANO
The piano or pianoforte is a musical instrument with a keyboard. A normal piano has 88 keys spanning seven octaves. It has 2 or 3 pedals.
OCTAVE
Octave is the distance from one note to the next note of the same name. It takes eight white keys to get to the next letter-named note, hence why we call it an octave.
In simple words, a set of 2 and 3 black keys, surrounded with 7 white keys. In 88 keys piano, there are 7 octaves with extra keys.
PIANO INTERVALS
The distance between piano notes, called an interval, determines how they sound when played together. Intervals are measured in half-steps and whole-steps.
Half-steps : A half-step is the distance from one key to the next key immediately to its right or left.
Whole-steps : A whole-step is the distance of two half-steps.
Common intervals : A common interval used in piano chords is the major third, which is the distance of two whole-steps or four half-steps.