Perfect fifths are one of the most commonly used sounds in all of music history, yet we never seem to talk about them outside of music theory. I'd like to help with that, because knowing about perfect fifths can boost your piano power in a serious way! ✨🎹✨

Whenever I teach sight reading, I always encourage my students to analyze their music before they start to play. But that’s hard for them to do without knowing a little bit about the key they’re working in.
This usually requires us to pull out the music theory books. But teaching music theory out of a book is very frustrating for me as a teacher for two reasons.

Major 3rds play a really important role in piano music, and can help you play music faster, yet they’re rarely discussed outside of formal music theory. Today, let’s give them the attention they deserve!

If you want to start writing music, one of the first decisions you’ll need to make is which chord progressions you want to have as the foundation of your song. There are a couple of ways you can get started in this.

Today I’d like to start a series of videos teaching music theory specifically for people who are interested in writing their own music. Because music theory can be intimidating for people, it seems like a good place to start would be to just talk about what music theory is and why it’s important to learn about.