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Tips to Ensure Your Piano Tuning is Up to The Mark
There are piano tuners and then there are piano technicians, also known as piano doctors or piano surgeons. Anyone can tune a piano with today's technology, and virtually anyone can...
Top Benefits of Online Music Lessons for Your Homeschooled Child
More and more, families choose homeschooling because of the flexibility it offers in addition to the amount of control and involvement parents get to have in their child’s education. And...
Using Major and Minor Arpeggios to Improvise
Many of us have heard of the musical term “arpeggio,” but we are aren’t aware of what it actually means and how arpeggios can help our playing. To play all...
Use Your English Knowledge to Master Italian Terms in Music Theory
In this article, I focused on grouping together Italian musical terms according to grammatical categories and then showed how we can take ownership of their combinations in a more creative...
Beginner Drum Kit: Setting up the Drum Kit
The day you receive your first instrument is one of the most exciting moments many musicians experience. I received my first drum kit, an old red Hohner Percussion (taken over...
Guitar Effect Pedals – Delay Pedals
Delay pedals will almost always be on every guitarist’s pedalboard. If you’re looking to create lush soundscapes fitting for worship music, or if you’re looking to recreate the guitar tone...
Mastering Jazz Progressions Using Barre Chords
The previous article discussed jazz improvisation, and now the next most important aspect of music to discuss is the harmony. In jazz music, the harmony is often quite complex, and...
10 Tips for Learning Music as an Adult
The science is clear, in addition to being fun, learning to play music has a wide range of benefits including improving memory and muscle coordination. Even if you didn’t get...
Three Step Guide to Master Italian Words in Music Theory
When faced with all the Italian words to learn for the graded music theory curriculum, one may find it overwhelming and disconnected, making it difficult to learn by rote. For...
Cuban Music: Rumba, An Introduction
Cuban music can be broadly categorised into two groups: rumba and son. As the names suggest, rumba styles share the rumba clave in common, whereas son styles make use of...
Setting Up Your Guitar The Right Way
Before attempting any new tasks, it is important to make sure your tools are working properly. For auto mechanics, car tools in good working order are essential for a successful...
Guitar Anatomy – Understanding the Different Parts of the Guitar
Now that you've bought a guitar and been getting ready to start your first lesson. What's next? If you don't have proper vocabulary, it would be hard to know where...
The Benefits of Learning the Piano
The piano is a fascinating instrument for many of us. Concert pianists make it look so easy to play the piano. But once we sit down and try it for...
Top Tips to Achieve the Jazz Guitar Sound
What sound do you imagine when you think about jazz guitar? Smooth mellow tones? Crunchy fusion sounds with copious amounts of effect pedals? Jazz is such an experimental genre that...
Guitar Effect Pedals – Compressor Pedals
Compression will almost always be used on any instrument, regardless of whether it’s guitar, bass, vocals, or strings. When it comes to mixing music for mass consumption, a compressor will...
A Guide To Cuban Music: Instrumentation and Clave
The caribbean island of Cuba is a nation with a rich musical heritage. This is largely due to the rich diversity of its people and the vast amounts of migration...
International Women’s Day in Music: Overcoming Obstacles and Taking Career Control
It’s International Women’s Day 2018 and the 2017/2018 news cycle has contained a lot of bleak headlines. There’ve been increasingly tense international political conflicts, massive natural disasters, and the threat...
Top 10 Chopin Preludes for Intermediate Pianists
“You are to sing if you wish to play!” Chopin: The Poet Pianist and His Preludes The Romantic era (1800-1900) was a new age for the piano. It was finally...
Guitar Effect Pedals – Overdrive Pedals
Overdrive pedals are often the first guitar pedal that guitarists buy. I remember that my first guitar pedal was a Fulltone Full-Drive2 Overdrive and my second was a Paul Cochrane...
Introduction To Guitar Effect Pedals – Achieve The Desired Sound Effects With the Right Pedals
Guitar effects pedals, also known as "stomp-boxes," are yet another useful tool in the guitar player’s toolbox for tone shaping. They are foot-pedal boxes that provide sound effects for the...
Top 10 Easy Piano Songs
Want to impress your audiences, even with your simple piano skills? Give one of these easy, yet iconic melodies a go, with the help of our piano instructors Alwyn &...
A Guide to Drum Kit Notation for Latin Music: Bossa Nova
Bossa Nova (translated as “new wave” or “new trend”) is a style of music that became popular globally during the 1960s. While it was popular in Brazil to a lesser...
Romeo and Juliet in Classical Music: Prokofiev’s Ballet in Four Acts (1936)
Sergei Prokofiev’s rendition of the love story is a ballet, performed by an orchestra and dancers. The history and first performances of the work connect music to its context, in...
Romeo and Juliet in Classical Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet was a fantasy-overture, as the composer himself called it. It was first completed and premiered in 1870. The lukewarm reception made Tchaikovsky take up the suggestions...
Romeo and Juliet in Classical Music: Hector Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette
Valentine's Day is coming. What is your favorite love story? While not necessarily the most memorable one, Romeo and Juliet is definitely one of the most well-known love stories. The...
Top 10 Inspirational Jazz Guitarists of All Time
Jazz improvisation can seem pretty daunting at first glance: the countless scales, arpeggios, and use of flat keys, may seem like starting all over again. But in fact, it is...
Guitar Edition: 5 Things I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self
Here is a million dollar question that everyone gets asked once in awhile, “What would you tell your younger self if you could travel back in time?” To be honest,...
Drums Edition: 4 Things I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Most musicians, myself included, spend a large portion of their youth practicing and playing music. We devote a lot of time and effort learning things that...
Piano Edition: 5 Things I Wish I Could Tell My Younger Self
Imagine if you could go back in time and tell a younger version of yourself the future that is to come? If I could go back in time and offer...
The Definitive Guide To Changing Guitar Strings
If you're new to the guitar, changing your strings can seem like a complicated process. However, it's a pretty straightforward task and, just like playing the guitar, it gets easier...
A Guide to Drum Kit Notation Folkloric Styles: Samba
In the last article, we discussed some of the reasons that many traditional folkloric musical styles don’t translate seamlessly when applying Western notation. One example I gave was Brazilian samba,...
Top 5 Classical Music Attractions in Berlin, Germany
The founding of Germany's capital city dates back to the 13th century. Surrounded by significant landmarks that remind you of the city’s turbulent history, including the Holocaust and the fall...
The Circle of Fifths: The Clock of Key Signatures
Since the 17th century, the Circle of Fifths has been a prominent tool utilized by professional musicians and composers throughout Western Culture. Knowledge provided by the Circle of Fifths is...
Chord Changing Exercises: How to Smoothly Change Your Chords
Many beginning guitar players struggle to perform smooth and seamless chord changes. Without smooth transitions between chords, your rhythm guitar playing will sound choppy and stuttered. Chord changing stutters also...
Top 5 Classical Music Attractions in Florence, Italy
Christmas is around the corner, and aside from hearing the jingling of bells, you may find yourself wanting to immerse yourself into the rich musical culture of the city of...
Top 5 Apps that Make You a Better Guitarist
Guitarists are constantly on the move with their instruments. To help you become a better guitarist on the go, we’ve handpicked 5 smartphone apps that will help you channel your...
My Journey From Classical to Jazz Piano
Approaching jazz as a classical pianist can be challenging. If you’re interested in learning about jazz and how to play jazz piano, you’ve come to the right place! In...
A Holiday Gift Guide for Piano
Looking for that perfect gift for a pianist family member or friend? Bookmark our latest piano gift guide, including products recommended by Liberty Park Music’s very own piano instructor, Steven...
A Holiday Gift Guide for Drums
Sourcing for a great drums’ paraphernalia or books for your drummer friends or family? Check out our latest gift catalog for drums, curated by Liberty Park Music’s very own drum...
A Holiday Gift Guide for Guitar
The holiday season is coming and some of us may still be searching frantically for awesome gift ideas. Members at Liberty Park Music have asked our talented instructors for a...
Top 6 Apps That Make You a Better Pianist
Schumpeter’s, an Austrian-born American economist and political scientist, theory of creative destruction suggests that new technology continuously replaces old technology. Smartphone apps are a prime example of this, replacing many...
Top 5 Classical Music Attractions in Paris
This Christmas season, lovers, friends, or adventurers may flock to Paris to enjoy their holiday. Celebrating the season with a classical concert adds a layer of joy to the trip,...
Which Piano Is Right For You – Grand or Upright?
“There is no such thing as a bad piano, just bad pianists,” My teacher in undergrad used to tell me this over and over again. To some extent this is...
How To Read Guitar Chord Diagrams
One of the first skills that all guitarists learn is how to read a chord diagram. These diagrams are very helpful when it comes to showing chord shapes and their...
7 Must-Know Tips to Ace the ABRSM Piano Examination
As a follow-up to our previous article, which covered the general ABRSM piano examination syllabus, we asked some of our past examinees to share tips that helped them score distinctions...