Last night as I was playing the keyboard, I stumbled upon a few chords that sounded like “Conjunction Junction” from School House Rock. I kept it up and finally came up with a decent sounding rendition of this song and it was fun! I believe that you need to make sure that you [...]
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Wow, I have had quite an adventure lately to say the least. I am so happy to be back to my blog now I can’t decide where to begin. I will be adding another lesson on music theory this week, so come back and have fun learning the basics of playing music.
Practicing [...]
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That will be your rally until Jesus comes! In all seriousness this should be the way you approach learning to play by ear. It even helps your understanding when learning to read music or if you already read music. Today we will focus on scales.
Scales:Everything in music is based on a [...]
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The absolute best thing I did when God told me to start learning the piano was to get online and hunt for information on music theory. I found many different resources, but one stood out to me more than others. It was Jermaine Griggs course: Hear and Play. No matter what genre [...]
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Welcome to Becoming a Church Musician. This blog will reflect my journey to becoming God’s musician. The musician He desires for me to be. I am writing this to also help others on their journey to find the place God has for them in music ministry.
First a little background about myself. I [...]
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