Percussion Instruments

Yes, they are of a considerable high standard.

Pjano - Eric Prydz? maybe?

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Eurodancer ? It has a piano beginning, but then again it's really old so you probably didn't mean that

Guiro

Actually it was not Johann Christian Bach who made the first changes, but his father, Johann Sebastian Bach.
Prior to Johann Sebastian Bach, the piano (or clavier as it was originally known) was not played using the thumbs or the fourth fingers. JS Bach was the first one to play the piano using his thumbs with his hands rounded on the keyboard. He hardly moved his hands, unlike keyboardists who preceded him, yet kept his fingers well rounded on the keyboard.

Johann Christian Bach was the eleventh son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He made some significant changes to the nature of piano music, as his compositional style tended towards the more expressive. He is less known, simply because the magnificent career of his father overshadowed his own work. Also, because Johann Christian spent much time in Britain, his style developed differently. He was sometimes known as the "English Bach".

Probably the best place to learn this style is in the southern states in America. Jazz was pretty much born down there, so learn at the source.

You should also consider learning improvisational style. Many pianists that play cocktail piano style do so by using lead sheet and piano chords - they do not read from sheet music, they improvise and put in lots of runs and fillers.

Though a trip would be nice, I don't think it at all nessicary. The improvisation is a good idea. I think to get a feel for the jazz style start by getting into FAST swing. Take anything written in 4/4 and imagine striaght eights. now image them as triplet, but tie the first two together. instead of 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and, you have 1 le 2 le 3 le 4 le. Its the lazy way to write in 12/8- or what would be quarter, eighth, quarter eighth.

If you are referring to the rock and roll dueling pianos venue that has a circuit of clubs worldwide, this is the right answer:

If you are interested in playing the dueling piano style, and actually becoming a performer, there are a couple of ways in which you can do this. Firstly, approach the Entertainment Director of any dueling piano club and ask him/her if they have any openings. Ask for an audition. If you pass the audition, a training session should immediately take place within a few days. Dueling piano players are specially trained to do what they do. Not just any piano player can get up there and do it.

There are call downs, beckon and call routines, commands and bits.

The delivery of the songs is specific and not always like the recording.

Meanwhile, start to learn the "top 40" singalong songs that you hear at a dueling pianos club. Learn them any way you can, and later your ED will correct any mistakes or help you to improve your playing style.

Another way is to contact one of the dueling piano players and ask him/her for some pointers. See if you can get their contact info. ( generally they do not like to talk very much on their breaks ).

Dueling pianos is a concept that started in 1989 in Dallas, Texas at a club called, " Dallas Alley- Alley Cats." A predecessor to that would have been "Pat O'Briens" in New Orleans.

All other dueling piano venues were modeled off the original, Pat O'Briens in New Orleans, although the modern day concept is concentrated in rock and roll and pop music.

As far as playing specifics, it's all about chords. Don't approach a song like a classical pianist trying to play the song as a complete note for note perfect piece. Instead, you or your partner's voice carries the melody and you are almost always playing bass with your left hand while chording with the left. Approach a song like a guitarist would, by charting the chords (I use the numbers system but that's a whole other topic) and improvising your own specific notes. This is what you called Jazzing Up. You must be familiar enough with the songs to re-create melodies and themes you hear in the recording on the piano. Everyone does it a little differently and this is why it's GREAT!

As for straight up improvising, learn your pentatonic, chromatic, major and minor scales and arpeggios. Hanon is boring, yes but it's like working out. Ya gotta do it. If you want to mix it up try imitating the style of other instruments with your solos. Approach a run with the attack of an electric guitar or use fiddle style double stops, or try banjo like pedal tones. Play stabby sounding chords to imitate horns, the possibilities are endless.

The key is to be an eclectic listener and to have the technical ability on your instrument to convey what is in your head out to the audience in real time. It's a direct mental connection to the piano and then once that is made it's all about your own personal style.

The other important thing is your partner. If you've ever played in a band you know that you can't step on someone else's part. A good live arrangement has layers and the parts compliment each other. This seems obvious but its important to ease up on your part when your partner is driving the music, and then back him up when it's his turn to step out with a solo or other featured playing/singing.

The Slap Stick

A percussion instrument is an instrument that requires the player to hit it rather then say blow into it for example. An example of a percussion instrument would be a drum or a xylophone or the cymbals or a gong. An example of a non percussion instrument would be a trumpet or a violin or a trombone or a cello.

The guiro is a hand-held hollow percussion instrument made out of wood or from a gourd. It originated in Latin America and comes in a variety of long shapes. One of the shapes looks like a fish so the instrument is often referred to as "the fish."

Although most keyboard instruments are considered part of the percussion family (either the hammer striking or plucking of strings) the organ is not. For most organs, the sound is produced when air rushes through the pipes across flutes or reeds. Since there is no actual percussive action involved to produce the sound, it's not considered to be a percussion instrument.

There are no specific pattern to gospel drum beats. Gospel music today ranges in style and genre from country to rock to metal. If you want to play drums for a gospel band, simply play it as you feel it and how it suits the style of the bands music.

International music score library project - public domain. The link is in the 'Related Links' section below.

I bought a Baldwin piano some years ago. I had it tuned and some strings replaced. I found out the piano was not a Baldwin but a Hamilton (number 368134). No where on the piano did it state (Hamilton). WHY? What was the difference?

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A hash on a piano is called a sharp. This is where you raise a note by one semitone. Sharps and flats are played on the black keys.

We have a musette player piano and it works as a regular piano. If you want to use the player portion, on ours you open the back panel behind the pedals, pull down the foot pumps and pedal away.

In reggae music, a standard drum kit is the most commonly used percussion instrument. Sometimes though, a bongo drum may be used.

Neutral Clef or "Percussion Clef"

The Priest of France made the pig piano.

P.S. This was the best answer I could find.

Hope this helps!

The standard sizes for drums are: 22" x 16" bass drum, 12" x 10" rack tom, 13" x 11" rack tom, 16" x 16" floor tom and a 14" x 5.5" snare drum. Snare, tom and bass drum sizes are commonly expressed as diameter x depth, both in inches, for example 14 x 5 is a common snare drum size. So the circumference is just Pi, which we approximate as 3.14 x diameter.

It is called an octave

yes

When a key, which acts as a lever, is pressed, a metal piece in the other end of the key strikes a string, making it vibrate.

the first piano was made by Bartolomeo Cristafari in 1709. This was because the previous "pianos" did not have a crisp sound.

The piano is made of a hard plastic nowadays but can be made of wood. The strings are made of from tempered high-carbon steel, also known as spring steel.

Hope this helps!

In a piano concert.

-master of piano

P.S. I hope this helps.

No; although each individual disc (jangly-thing? I don't remember what they're actually called. Let's call them jangly-things) is tuned to generally be a pitch, they're all tuned to roughly the same pitch. And since all the jangly-things are a thin metal and sound at the same time, all we hear is one jingly noise and not notes (or chords) which are characteristic of pitched instruments.

Pitched percussion instruments are the keyboards--marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, bells, piano, harpsichord, etc.--and pitched drums such as timpani and the ever-popular steel drum. I'm not sure if tom-toms count as tuned drums, except maybe if you have a set of four.