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Passacaglia tutorial for beginners

At long last, I'm pleased to finally share my most requested tutorial -- a beginner-friendly version of Passacaglia!

I love this song for beginners because it uses simple patterns and repetitions that are easy to memorize and really satisfying to play! I hope you enjoy playing this song as much as I do 🥰

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My favourite rhythm pattern for beginners

Playing along with your favourite songs is the best way to learn piano, but it can be difficult to get started if you don’t know what to do with your hands.

Today I’m sharing a really simple piano accompaniment pattern that’s easy to learn but has a huge range of applications if you want to play music by ear.

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“Let It Be” video tutorials

This week, I’m trying something new and adding song tutorials to my social media. I’m doing this because I notice a lack of online piano tutorials for true beginners to piano. Most people who create video tutorials for piano move through their songs pretty quickly, assuming the viewer has some background in piano. They don’t explain each step very clearly and I felt that left a lot of learners behind!

Here’s a collection of tutorials that are written for true beginners. Even if you’ve never played a song before, you should be able to follow along.

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Introducing the key signature

Sometimes when we want our music to sound a certain way, we need to use a combination of white keys and black keys. Notes that are written on a staff are always white keys by default. So how do we fix this?

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