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• Body Warmups: stretches to help warm up and reduce stress of playing; careful not to over stretch!
• Avoiding Injury: for hands, wrists, and musician’s health

• Hanon
• Finger Exercises: various warmups and patterns

• Practice Tips: suggestions on how and what to practice

• Key Names on Piano
• Grand Staff
• Staff, Clefs & Notes

• Rhythm Tree: guide to note values
• Music Notation Vs. Rhythm Notation: how to read notation and rhythms

• Scale Fingering: technique and precise fingering for all major scales
• Chromatic Scales
• Major Scales
• Minor Scales: Natural / Melodic / Harmonic
• Pentatonic Scales
• Blues Scales
• Modes & Scales
• Whole Tones Scales
• Circle of 5ths: key and diatonic chord reference

• Intervals
• Chords Library
• Triads
• Inversions
• Seventh Chords
• Extended Chords

History

• Pop
• Rock

Listening

• YouTube Playlist
• Spotify Playlist

Additional Links & Resources

• Piano Sheet Music For Free: pop songs arranged and notated for piano

Histroy

• Folk
• Country

Additional Links & Resources

• Traditional Music Library: archive of traditional, folk, & old-time music including lead sheets and playing guides

History

• Blues
• Jazz

Listening

• YouTube Playlist
• Spotify Playlist

Additional Links & Resources

• Ragtime Piano: huge collection of popular ragtime piano songs
• How Jazz Musicians Practice: article offering practice suggestions for aspiring jazz pianists
• Learn Jazz Piano: many resources for practicing and learning more about jazz
• Jazz Resource Center: jazz theory, chord voicings, and transcriptions
• The Delicate Art of Comping: comping philosophy by Phil Markowitz
• Funk Piano Lessons: great blog with good practice and technique suggestions

History

• Baroque
• Classical
• Romantic
• 20th Century History

Listening

• YouTube Playlist
• Spotify Playlist

Additional Links & Resources

• Classical Sheet Music: tons of free classical sheet music for various instruments
• Take A Piano Sheet Music Break: free and organized by difficulty
• Michael Kravchuk: free classical sheet music

• How To Write Great Songs On Keyboard: A Complete Course to Help You Write Better Songs by Rikky Rooksby
• Hammond Organ Complete by Dave Limina
• Fundemental of Music theory for Piano by Martha Ashleigh and Keith Snell
• Hanon by Charles-Louis Hanon
• Hanon Jr by Charles-Louis Hanon
• Fingerpower series by John Schaum
• The Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine
• The Mayron Cole Piano Method: free piano method series for children and adults

• The Ultimate Christmas Series by Hal Leonard Corp.
• Jamey Abersolde Play-Along Series: excellent play-along series for learning jazz and other styles
• The Real Book: songbook and lead sheets for popular standards and for a variety of music styles

• 8Notes: free sheet music for all genres
• Music Notes: online sheet music for purchase
• Sheet Music Plus: online sheet music for purchase
• Hal Leonard: physical sheet music

• Ultimate Guitar: chords & lyrics
• Musescore: app to create and access sheet music

• Flat: online editor
• Musescore: app to create and access sheet music

• Wikipedia's History of the Musical Keyboard: be sure to check out the pages on piano, organ, synthesizer, MIDI keyboard
• A Young Person's Guide to the Principles of Music Synthesis: overview of synthesizer basics
• Virtual Piano: interactive piano that is shareable
• Acoustic Piano Diagram: labeled parts and general information about the piano

• Keyboard Buying Guide: learn the difference between digital pianos, keyboards, and controlers
• Keyboard Kraze: up to date reviews on modern keyboards, digital pianos, and synths
• Piano Buyer: lots of information about buying new or used acoustic and digital pianos

• Care and Maintenance: basic care instructions for a keyboard instrument
• Acoustic Piano Tuning: what is piano tuning and how often should it be done