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Heartaches by the Number

Piano Lesson

1. Listen and watch Ray Price's original recording
YouTube - Ray Price - Heartaches by the Number

2. Listen and watch Allen Dale play his excellent piano version.

YouTube - Allen Dale-Heartaches by the Number

3. Sing along to the kareoke version.

YouTube - Dwight Yoakum Heartaches by the number

4. View the chord chart with lyrics. 

Heartaches By The Number

5. Print out free sheet music.

Guy Mitchell - Heartaches By The Number Sheet Music (Print Instantly)

6. Call me or email me for lessons. (see contact info in index 001. welcome). 

Etcetera

Check out today's "Etcetera" blog piece on why the Fed has to be nationalized... and why it ought to be.. and why it never should have existed in the first place.  It's very existence is causing the USA and the world to have heartaches... by the number. 

Etcetera: National the Fed Act was put forth in 1994

Study every issue of Executive Intelligence Review by Lyndon Larouche to understand the true nature of the economic disaster the world is staring at... and what the physical economic solutions are... water, power, space... fixed exchange rates... Glass Steagall to separate investment banking from chartered banking... something FDR installed.. etc. [+] Lots of free articles. Lots of current history. 

Bookmark Larouche's Daily News page for up to the hour reports on the attempted World Government destruction of the nation state system... and attempted depopulation. 

Updates Page

Study Rolf Witzche's critique of the NAWAPA irrigation plan. 

NAWAPA overview, by Rolf Witzsche

Listening Assignment

Hayden's Creation

YouTube - William Christie - Haydn, The Creation

Discussion

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New website www.PianoLessonsEtc.com will expand my online business.

[www.PianoLessonsEtc.com]

For promotional purposes, I've established and will develop www.PianoLessonsEtc.com. It's an easy-to-remember URL that will be used to compete with other online piano lesson services out there.

Absolute and relative pitch.

Read this article.
Pure Pitch - Master Absolute Pitch & Relative Pitch

Enter the threaded discussion forum.
Piano Lessons in Phoenix, Arizona: PERFECT and RELATIVE PITCH

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Absolute beginners ages 6-106 start here.

The only way to begin piano lessons is to begin listing and listening to music you enjoy. There is, in fact, no such thing as a "piano lesson". What we do in a piano lesson, as it's called, is create music. But what music do you want to create? This is the first element to deal with. The piano is merely a means of recreation of the music. There is plenty of opportunity to view and listen to preferred music given the internet now-- MIDI files, MP3 and Youtube all come in handy.

Here are a few to begin with...

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Alphabet Song

Lyrics and Music
A Tisket, A Tasket

Lyrics and Music
Ants Go Marching In

There is really no point in trying to learn to play more sophisticated material until you learn to play these basic nursery rhymes. The same theory applies so why not begin at the beginning?  Here is the sheet music for the above tunes...

Alphabet Song
http://www.kididdles.com/pdf/alphabetsongsheetmusic.pdf

A Tisket, A Tasket
Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tisket, a-Tasket Sheet Music (Digital Download)

The Ants Go Marching In (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
Free sheet music : Gilmore, Patrick - When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Piano solo)

You can instantly see that the playing of these tunes is no small matter because the notation is substantially involved. This isn't to say you can't sing or play these by memory or by ear. Of course you can. The point is that to learn to "play the piano", you'll have to understand that notation as well-- otherwise, you'll end up at a dead end, limited by what you can recall, note by note. That's not much of a piano playing hobby.

YouTube offers some pretty wild possibilities for self-education that were not possible a few years ago. I'd like to offer piano learners the opportunity to use these tools. For example, here are the same three children's tunes given my YouTube search...  selections that are perfectly appropriate for absolute beginners as well... by virtue of the fact that a piano student absolutely must listen and explore and enjoy...

The Alphabet Song (originally Mozart's 12 variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) on a Youtube Music Reading Video... (don't worry if you can't follow along as it's played... however if you CAN, it's a lot of fun.. and helps you learn to play it.)
YouTube - Mozart: 12 Variations "Ah, vous dirai-je, maman" KV 265 (Clara Haskil)

A Tisket A Tasket is actually a sophisticated jazz tune made famous by Ella Fitzgerald... so what you think is an elementary childish tune, often is no such thing.
YouTube - Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Here's a cartoon version of The Ants...
YouTube - THE ANTS GO MARCHING

... and a child plays the original titled version on a keyboard
YouTube - When Johnny Comes Marching Home on the Piano

...finally, the original version set to a video of the Civil War where the song originated...
YouTube - When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again / Gettysburg Scenes

It's pretty startling to witness realistic war scenes like that... but its how the American Republic was won against the onslaught of the British Empire... an onslaught that continues today in monetary warfare... but to end this article... listen to Oscar Peterson's jazz group handle A Tisket A Tasket...
YouTube - Oscar Peterson Quartet: A Tisket A Tasket (Feldman/Fitzgerald)


CLASSROOM (Threaded Discussion forum for questions and comments)
 Piano Lessons in Phoenix, Arizona: BEGINNGERS 6 - 106

Scale chords in the scale of C

Scale chords in C [+]

Try Simply Music is likely a hoax.

I'm in the process of reviewing this. [+]  There is no indication of the method exactly. No examples. It's a marketing con.

Latest "New Age" piano artist Jim Brickman on Youtube playlists-- teachable.

          Maybe you're interested in learning to play like Jim Brickman.... or write piano music like Brickman's. It's comparatively elementary stuff-- I consider it to be New Age and I'm not a big fan. But it's teachable... and it can be found at Central Music or online.... I can find the best sites for you to visit if you're interested. YouTube - Jim Brickman - Joyful

brickman joyful chords - Google Search

          You can see that his printed music has chords written into it... which is a step ahead a lot of the printed classical music you can buy...

Piano Sheet Music - Jim Brickman - Grace (Piano/Vocal/Chords - Piano)

          Be sure to check into my Etcetera Blog to read my latest public observations on the world-at-large-- especially the crashing financial economy.... through the eyes of PHYSICAL economist and Classical Humanist Lyndon Larouche-- who has the ANSWER to the worldwide crisis we face... namely FDR Bretton Woods (fixed exchange rates), Glass Steagall (separate investment and chartered banks), and a 3rd National Bank (replace the FED). Laugh all you want-- the REAL economists are NOT dismissing Larouche at all.

This week, we'll look at The Music Man.

For those of you attending our home studio lesson program, Dorothy Motto will be instructing you this coming week and weekend on the broadway play / movie entitled "The Music Man".  Since we now have her Technics organ set up beside the piano you'll use... it'll be fun for you to play your songs with her accompaniment. Now THAT is a piano lesson! You become part of her ensemble... just like the pros! I'll update this page in coming days with Music Man links I recommend you view.

Be sure to explore the rest of my index just below... there are plenty of interesting angles I've provided for piano students to enter the world of piano playing. You'll surely find something that interests you. Over the next few months, I'll be organizing the posts in a more logical way for an online student to start with the easy stuff and proceed to the more complex. For now, it's random access because I'm only getting back into the work of an online (unpaid) course. It's a labour of love for now.

Let's all look at the Schiller Institute... and their music division.

Today, I'd like everyone to look at the Schiller Institute....
The Science of Music

Listen to the 9th Symphony right at the top--- it may be a bit uncomfortable for you if you've never heard it before... but I highly recoomend it...

Be sure to explore the alphabetical index just below to view other piano topics. If you're looking for a wider perspective on the world at large... click on Etcetera.... at the very bottom of this page.

A great example of a 2-chord famous rock song you can do.

PIANO LESSONS

HORSE WITH NO NAME
A favorite old rock tune from 1972, A Horse with No Name, by Neil Young-- uses just 2 chords. We'll transpose it to various keys using the roman numbers technique. It's really amazing from several points of view. When you take piano lessons from me, you get insight like this... that you normally can't get anywhere else. You can look for it a long time on the internet... but I can point to it quickly.
1. LISTEN --> [+]
2. Observe CHORDS & Lyrics --> [+]
3. Guitar instructor describes the basics chords... useful for the piano player as well. TAKE NOTES! ---> [+]
4. Sing along on this kareoke video... HAVE FUN---> [+]


MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
This sing a long is a favorite of mine because I use it as a conversational metaphor all the time... I'll tell you why later today. ENJOY---> [+]

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ETCETERA

NUCLEAR POWER - Thorium
There is still time for the world to be saved... and I'm tracking the "new" thorium story line for piano students here. You can't play piano if you don't have civilization and you can't have that without advanced high energy flux density power. VIDEO---> [+]

CRYOPRESERVATION
As many who know me know, I'm a proponent of longer lifespan and even immortality... but I differ with all the other immortalists in the world in that I'm a proponent of physical immortality based on Larouche described spiritual immortality. Two new avenues I'm working on are Owada magnetic freezing of foods... and the saline preservation of lobsters that have been reanimated. Old fashioned vitrification is, in my view, obsolete. We won't even need perfusion. VIDEO---> [+]

NAWAPA - Irrigation Project.
I'm following this story too... and you can... just google nawapa. VIDEO---> [+]

DEPOPULATION
There are vast conspiracies that want to depopulate the Earth... it's true. Think about this way... Ask yourself... Is it concievable that there would be anyone interested, in power, who indeed would prefer fewer humans on the planet? Maybe you yourself are like that! Well, the answer to that is Vladimir Vernadsky and biogeochemistry... but for the moment.. check out the Georgia Guidestones... as an indicator of the existense of a secret group that appears to want fewer than a billion people. VIDEO---> [+]

DENTAL
PERIOGEN "dissolves" tartar instead of having to have the dentist scrape it off every 6 months... and if you use a Waterpik or Hydrofloss, you can penetrate the deeper gum pockets with PERIOGEN... and dissolve it there too. This is a breakthrough item. VIDEO--> [+]

LAROUCHE
Latest issue of the flagship magazine, EIR- Executive Intelligence Review Online

Money or Credit?

Use "single note bass chords" to generate a complete sounding harmony.

A faster way to get started on creating chords on the piano that sounds good right away is to use a single note for whatever chord you want in the left hand. Of course, you'll need the chord above the staff... so you'll need to be careful not to purchase or use printed music scores that do not have that addition. If you're stuck with a piece with no chords, simply follow the lowest note in the bass line as your guide. It won't always represent the chord, but it will more than likely represent a note that belongs to the chord... which will be good enough.

Enter the Classroom

DOROTHY'S LESSONS
Some of you are taking lessons directly from Dorothy... so if you're checking into this website to see what she's preparing for you this week, I'll tell you in advance. You'll be listening to and playing several of the songs from broadway play... which was made into a movie... from 1962... "the Sound of Music". It's one of Dorothy's favorite broadway shows... and at the end of your lesson booklet I've added to her instruction with an advanced looked at the chord progressions in these songs. You'll be applying Dorothy's own arrangments of left hand patterns to each of the songs... so we look forward to delivering this to you so you can add it to your repertoire.



ETCETERA - 1973 OIL PRICE HOAX
This morning, I looked at the historical event which is still affecting us today... and which is getting worse... in it's effect.. the 1973 so-called "Energy Crisis" or the "oil price crisis". The CURRENT SOLUTION for the REAL energy crisis... not the phony 1973 oil shortage... is NUCLEAR POWER using THORIUM!!! If you go into this area... you'll help save mankind. You really will. Someone ought to write a song about that. Maybe I will. [Classroom Discussion Forum]

ENJOY CHINESE FOOD AT GOLDEN BUDDHA RESTAURANT
... where Dorothy and me play piano....5:30 to 9 nightly. [+]


SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 MESSAGE FROM LYNDON LAROUCHE
[How to Rescue the World Now]