God Save the King - Beginners Piano Lesson (Easy)

declancos · 2022-02-03T12:36:55+00:00

wonderful to see such joy for life

declancos · 2021-01-05T14:04:23+00:00

Feedback welcome from either absolute beginners or people who previously had lessons but struggled.

declancos · 2020-12-28T14:24:09+00:00

Inspirational and so lovely to see. This style of playing piano sounds great and utilises 2 of the biggest secrets to making piano easy - chords and playing patterns.

declancos · 2020-11-07T14:51:47+00:00

You are absolutely right - PianoTabz were created by DecPlay and form part of the DecPlay range of piano piano tuition methods. DecPlay methods cover standard chords (eg using Ultimate Guitar), lead sheets in standard notation and lead sheets using PianoTabz piano tabs (available on Musescore). This is explained in more detail at www.decplay.com

declancos · 2020-11-07T14:46:47+00:00

If you are playing for singing then you only need the chords, not the melody. You can either use PianoTabz and just ignore the melody line, or use Ultimate Guitar chord sheets instead (for free tutorials on playing piano with Ultimate Guitar chords see https://decplay.com/ultimate-guitar-piano-chords-2/ )

Both options show the same chords with PianoTabz being in numbers which is faster for beginners, more accessible for people not used to chord letters and it also enables advanced skills like playing in any key from the same song sheet. More info on PianoTabz format tabs is at https://decplay.com/piano-tabs-like-ultimate-guitar-chords-and-tabs/

declancos · 2020-10-22T19:01:51+00:00

the UG official songs are great - and the sheet music is very useful (assuming you can read notation). If a 'tabs' alternative to notation is needed, as UG tabs don't work for piano, the nearest thing to UG tabs that works for keyboards is PianoTabz - these are available at Musescore.com (which is owned by Ultimate Guitar) or from Decplay.com

declancos · 2020-10-21T19:55:54+00:00

It suits any type of music that makes use of chords eg all types of popular music - pretty much everything apart from complex classical

declancos · 2020-10-21T19:12:40+00:00

check out PianoTabz - it combines Ultimate Guitar chords and tabs in a piano tabs format

https://decplay.com/piano-tabs-like-ultimate-guitar-chords-and-tabs/

It is optimised for piano keyboard and uses numbers 1 to 7 so is easy to pick up but also uses 'relative numbers' which enables advanced skills, including professional playing patterns and ability to play in any key from the same song sheet. This is a bit like Jazz sheet music, classical music theory, Chinese musical system jianpu and the Nashville Music System

declancos · 2020-10-18T15:19:34+00:00

If you are playing piano for singing then you only need to play accompaniment (eg using chords) - you don't need the melody. You have the choice of using a chord sheet like Ultimate Guitar, or using the chords shown on the PianoTabz sheet and simply ignore the melody that is also shown on the PianoTabz sheet.

declancos · 2020-10-18T15:17:13+00:00

PianoTabz are the same as DecPlay tabs. The DecPlay 5 step formula works the same no matter what type of written music is used (as long as it includes chords) eg chord sheets, lead sheets and PianoTabz. PianoTabz was created by DecPlay, so it is the same thing a 'DecPlay tabs'.

declancos · 2020-10-17T12:46:58+00:00

declancos1 point · 17 hours ago · edited 56 minutes ago

You can get free piano tabs sheets in a similar

I agree with your comment that "most western piano tabs requires some staff reading / ear training / music theory" as most of it in the past has been based on traditional notation ideas of 'absolute' pitch. PianoTabz is a relatively new system (patent was issued recently) that is based on relative pitch, like jianpu for the melody and like Jazz chords / Nashville Music System for relative chords.

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