IT'S EASY TO GET STARTED! IN STUDIO & ONLINE PIANO INSTRUCTION FROM THE CURIOUS PIANIST!
Welcoming kids and adults of all ages for in studio, online, and hybrid piano lessons in the San Francisco Bay Area serving the local communities and school districts of Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Cupertino, Westmont, Campbell, West San Jose, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Cambrian Park, Santa Clara, Mountain View and for remote and online students everywhere! Traditional private instruction will be tailored to your student using with modern techniques and methods! For online or hybrid students, an immersive multi-camera approach provides engaging and fun remote lessons! Homeschoolers welcome!
Contact me for a "get acquainted" meeting/lesson! 🍎 🎹 🎶
Deborah's Piano Lessons
Private Piano Instruction with Deborah Savage
TAKE LESSONS IN PERSON, ONLINE, OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH! FOR THOSE WHO PREFER, LEARN VIRTUALLY FROM THE COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE OF YOUR OWN HOME
For non-local students in the domestic US or beyond, remote instruction is also available to accommodate your time zone!
Will March be windy and stormy? Time to chase some rainbows and look for the lucky leprechaun's pot of gold! Learn an Irish jig or reel or a song with "Rainbow" in the title this month!
☘️ 🎹 HAPPY MARCH! 🎹 ☘️
🎵 🎹 Ear Training - Intervals 🎵 🎹
Ear training is like exercising your ears so they become musical superheroes! 🦸 🎹
It helps you recognize sounds, patterns, and notes without needing to look at the music! This is important because it makes you a better listener, performer, and even composer—you’ll be able to figure out songs just by hearing them. 👂 🎶
Some fun ways to practice are:
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noticing if a note goes up or down 👂 ↗️ ↙️
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singing back short melodies 🎤 🎶
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listening carefully to see if two notes sound the same or different. 🤔 🎶
Another way to talk about two different notes is by noticing the distance between them. To measure the distance between notes, we don't use a "ruler" 📏 or "measuring tape", we count all the notes from the starting note to the ending note. 🔢 🎵 This number of notes is called an INTERVAL!
There are also many types of special INTERVALS. If we play two notes together, these are called HARMONIC INTERVALS, like singing in harmony in a choir! 👨🎤 👩🎤 🎙️
If we play or sing two notes one after each other, these are called MELODIC INTERVALS, like singing a melody of a song all by yourself! 🧑🎤 🎤
Some INTERVALS even have special flavours and names! Let's learn some!
Miss Deborah's Guinea Pigs want to learn some INTERVALS starting with MIDDLE C as the bottom note and using the notes C D E F G A B C! 🐹 🎼 🎶
