Piano Tutorials

De Que Me Sirve La Vida - Aleks Syntek - Synthesia - Piano tutorial

2020-04-24T06:46:00.003-07:00

Here is the piano tutorial for this song. The sheet music is available here.

The chords I use here is one step lower originally C#.

Partituras para piano --> AQUI

Click here for piano SHEET MUSIC

Leaves

2020-04-18T09:51:00.005-07:00

Here is my transcription of "Leaves" by Ben and Ben. The song is a beautiful piece lyric-wise and accompaniment-wise. The piano accompaniment provides a reassuring tone for the message of the song.

Spoliarium Synthesia Piano Tutorial

2020-04-16T06:38:00.000-07:00

Here is my piano tutorial for an Eraserheads song entitled "Spoliarium". Sheet music will be available soon for purchase. If you want/need it badly -- send me a personal message.

About our Blog

2020-04-15T22:18:00.000-07:00

I will be putting the Synthesia recordings here for those who want to learn the music. Some are key readers (for those who do not yet know how to read notes). But I do encourage you guys to learn to read sheet music -- It's fairly easy! Just need tons of practice to sight read. Mind you I'm not an expert in sight reading sheets, but I practice a piece a lot before I am able to play with few mistakes (yes there are still mistakes!). Enjoy the videos!

How to Play "How to Love" by Lil Wayne

2011-10-10T17:30:00.000-07:00

One of the new songs by Lil Wayne, "How to Love", has been riding the top charts for quite a while now. It's pretty easy to play with the piano or keyboard, the only difficulty is that most of the melody is quite "rapped" and he does it significantly fast to be able to play it on the piano.

Here are the chords that I use for keyboard/piano:

B - BM7 - EM7 - Em6 (This cycles from start to finish)

For the guitar, I put the capo on the 3rd and use this chords (just a simple transpose of 3 half steps for the piano/keyboard chords)

G - GM7 - CM7 - Cm6 (You may use Cm instead of Cm6 for simplicity)

The Lonely by Christina Perri

2011-04-20T01:14:00.000-07:00

Christina Perri has brought us the song Jar of Hearts, and now she is with another big hit titled "The Lonely". The piano accompaniment she used here is fairly easy to master because the notes are within hands reach (no need to jump from one octave to another) as with her previous hit song. The sample music is below.

The chords are fairly easy.

Intro:

Gm - D/F# - Eb - Bb, D

Stanza:

Gm - D - Eb - Bb, D (2x)

Eb, F, Bb, Gm, Eb, F, D

Chorus:

Gm - D/F# - Eb - Bb, D

Gm - D/F# - Eb - Bb - D

2nd Stanza Intro:

Gm - D/F#

Bridge:

Gm, F/A, Bb, Bb/D, Eb

Gm, F/A, Bb, Bb/D, Cm, Bb

Gm, F/A, Bb, Bb/D, EbM7

Gm, F/A, Bb, Bb/D, Cm - D

Here's the link to the sheet music...

Skinny Love by Birdy

2011-04-12T06:29:00.000-07:00

A very young musician by the name of Birdy has created this beautiful song titled Skinny Love. The chords are really simple cycling from C#m-A-E partitions and E-G#m-C#m on some parts. I've posted the music widget below so you can listen to it.

The link for the sheet music is below.

Click here to purchase.

What are Words by Chris Medina

2011-04-04T02:30:00.000-07:00

American Idol 10's Chris Medina came out with this moving song for his special girl. The MTV is a compilation of their happiest moments together. The piano accompaniment is really good and the chords are easy to play. You can listen via the mini player below.

Here are the chords as well:

Intro:

F - G - C, C/E - F - F - G - Csus - C

Stanza:

F - G - C, C/E - Am(add9) - Am(add9)

F - G - C, C/E - F - F - Gsus - Csus - C

Chorus:

F(add9) - Gsus - C - C

F(add9) - Gsus - Am - Am

F(add9) - Gsus - C, G/B, Am, C/E - F - F - Gsus - G

I've posted a link of the sheet music below, which you can get the first page for free.

Just Can't Get Enough by B.E.P Partition

2011-03-28T03:24:00.000-07:00

This one song I heard from Black Eyed Peas is really easy to play on the piano. I have the notes here. The site requires to sign up to view the files. Don't worry, it's free to download, no spam emails. I placed it at $0. I will be placing the free sheets here in the future. (As of now, even though the file is set at $0, paypal requires at least $0.01 to get the file -- sorry about this but we're trying to fix this issue.)

You could also buy new sheets from this website.

I Need a Doctor by Eminem, Dr. Dre, & Skylar Grey

2011-03-09T00:20:00.000-08:00

Collaborations are really the "in" thing nowadays and I must say they're doing great. I'm liking songs that have a gentle melody to it accompanied by rap parts. Which is why I'm starting to like Skylar Grey (also did the song Coming Home).

Get the first page sample of the sheet music here.

The complete sheets are sold here along with other new sheets. You will need to sign up to get to see the selection. :)

Price Tag by Jessie J Featuring BoB

2011-03-07T22:12:00.000-08:00

When I first heard this song, I knew this was going to be a hit! Well, got clues from the number of Youtube hits on the video too, LoL! Jessie J is a really new artist and she's lucky to have a good collaboration with B.o.B., who's got some great collabs with artists like Bruno Mars (Nothing on You) and Paramore's Haley Williams (Airplanes).

The chords are very easy to play too:

F - Am7 - Dm - Bb (this repeats on every stanza and chorus)

Thanks for musictranscriber99 for letting me post this video (he's also linked his video here so double thanks!). Get the first page here. The complete sheets are sold here.

Someone Like You by Adele on Piano

2011-03-06T17:48:00.000-08:00

This song by Adele is making it good on the charts today. Not only that, this has great piano accompaniment! I've got the first page here for preview. Really easy and you can pretty much sing as the arrangement is for vocal accompaniment. Check out this video!

There are lots of sheet music here too once you've signed up on their site. :)

Sana (Theme from Mutya)

2011-03-05T05:33:00.000-08:00

I was trippin' one day and thought of making free sheets for one of the soap operas currently watched in Philippine prime time. This is the theme from Mutya, a soap opera that features a little mermaid type of plot. Filipinos call mermaids "sirena" in the native dialect. I've only posted the first page since I have yet to finish the rest of it. I hope you like it and try it out for yourself. The arrangement is fairly easy to play.

Get the first two pages here. Just skip the ad then choose slow download on the following window. I'll update in a week to add the remaining pages so keep checking! :)

If you're looking for new popular sheet music, you may find them here after signing up.

Alice by Avril Lavigne on Piano

2011-02-28T23:26:00.000-08:00

Here's some sheets of Avril Lavigne that I worked on a while back. Theses are relatively easy to play because of the repeating patterns of the left hand. Get the sheets here:

Alice Page 1
Alice Page 2
Alice Page 3
Alice Page 4
Alice Page 5
Alice MP3

For other recent sheet music, you can find some HERE. :)

The Nikon D90 as an alternative

2011-02-28T10:51:00.000-08:00

I've owned the Nikon D90 for almost a year now. I've read a lot of reviews for this great camera body so I'll not go to that much of detail for this. I will focus more on how good it is a camera in a consumer point of view.

If you're a bit tight on the budget and can't afford the middle ranged D7000 (the D90's successor), I suggest buying the D90 instead. I haven't had experience using the D7000 but I would say that this D90 is well worth the price.

I was a newbie last year when it came to DSLRs. Still a newbie, but has learned a lot of stuff. The only camera I owned back then was a Sony Cybershot, which was good enough for me as it can shoot 7.1 MP and a very decent video for recording my live youtube music. I wanted to upgrade since I felt I had the passion for photography, so I decided to invest on a DSLR, or digital single lens reflex camera. I didn't want the entry level because I wanted something that's not so common since the SLR market price has gotten really affordable and many people had it. I just wanted to own an extra special camera so I researched for something on the prosumer level.

The D90 just had so much going on with its sleek body. I got the kit lens, the 18-105mm which is really great for starting enthusiasts. You can play with a lot of camera settings. When I got it I was so naive that I didn't know how to use it, let alone read the manual, which most of us hate. The approach I did, as usual, was to play with it and shoot tons of pictures -- trigger happy you might say without any regard to shutter life. Most of the time I had it on AUTO and my favorite NO FLASH setting. I didn't even care about the other stuff on the knobs and its other features.

As I got to know the camera more after a few months, I got curious with the settings and theory behind stuff. The technical aspects first before going into composition and other artistic stuff. One great advice that I could provide is to study the relationship between three camera jargon: shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. A good combination of these three will produce a good balance of light and dark areas on your pictures, which is commonly known as "exposure".

Currently I am still trying to learn as much from this amazing camera. It's almost a year now but learning never stops. I would suggest not to get the higher end cameras as your first SLR, but purchase something like the D90 or D7000 and get to know how the DSLR cameras work. When you feel you've leveled up and the camera's abilities limit the beauty of your pictures, that is the time to upgrade (the next upgrade would be FX or full frame sensors cameras).

I currently own three lenses. The kit lens 18-105mm, a 50mm F1.8, and 24-70mm F2.8 all of which are Nikkors (Nikon lenses).

Attached is an unedited picture I shot using this camera with the kit lens 18-105mm.

For the picture below, post processing techniques like HDR was applied to add features on both light and dark areas.

There's just so many things you could do and enjoy with this camera.

Earn money from your uploads?

2011-02-27T22:27:00.000-08:00

I've stumbled upon this site last week, it's fairly new, though I'm not sure about other websites offering the same service. The website is Filesonic. It says you could earn money when people download your uploaded stuff! Yes it doesn't seem true but I'd be testing it. I actually bought a premium plan worth $25 from them, good for 90 days just to try it out.

Depending on the location where the file is downloaded, the pay-per-download rates differ so it's good to target countries like the United States, United Kingdom, and the latest addition - Germany. It pays a certain amount of $ per 1000 downloads of your file, ranging from $1 to $35 per 1000 downloads -- also affected by the file size. So the bigger the file downloaded, the bigger compensation you would get.

You can check out this link and find out for yourself. I will be updating this blog post to check how feasible this idea is. The main goal is to have files that people would like to download for free (of course they should be original material). I've uploaded one of my original compositions there for free download.

Click here to go to Filesonic.

Morning Sun (an original composition)

2011-02-27T07:18:00.002-08:00

Here's one of my original works using the Yamaha PSR-K1. This was an older model of Yamaha that I bought at NY for a very cheap price of $270! What a great bargain for such a good investment. I did this music for an aunt of mine who just started her watercolor business at mygenuinedesigns.com (please check out this site for watercolor posters, they have all original work).

Although the video does not show my keyboard (as it does show our little piano). The PSR-K1 was what I used mostly during the creation of this composition. The latter parts, I used our piano.

The music has this serene and relaxing feel to it, as what my aunt wanted for her website since most of her pictures have lovely colors and warmth on them.

I have posted the notes to this composition here at these links. Feel free to use them but of course give credit to where it is due, as I still hold the copyrights to this piece. :) A link to this blogsite would be great!

If you're a fan of new sheet music, click here.

I'm Yours by Jason Mraz on the Piano

2011-02-27T07:18:00.001-08:00

One of the first songs I've transcribed for the piano (of course it still best with the ukulele!). This sheet music is free for you to enjoy! Just take some time to download from the links below, all seven pages are available. These are all our personal transcriptions. We hope you like it!

If you guys want to learn new music sheets click Here.