The Piano Learning Revolution - YOUR opinion is Needed

[rodrix]

Hi everyone! 

Believe it or not, we're getting really close to the release date of The Piano Encyclopedia (www.pianoencyclopedia.com) and this is going to be the first time an Interval Dictionary, Chord Dictionary, Scale Dictionary, and Harmony Dictionary have been combined into just one product- and interactively explaining the relationship between each of these components.

Seriously put some thought into this... With these tools learning to compose, improvise, and play with a professional sound can be something that can come true and not be just a distant dream.

 Most students -even some very experienced concert pianists I know- don't know how to combine chord and scales to make harmony, and the Chord and Scale Dictionaries, as well as many other products in the market, don't teach this. Imagine having all this information combined together, learning intervals, chords, scales, and harmony all at once while writing your first composition and harmonizing your favorite songs in your first lessons. However, don't take my word for it- I want you to try it yourself as soon as it's ready.

As it turns out, we've spent the last few months developing exciting new features and NOW I would love to have your opinion on the NEW section we're developing for the Piano Encyclopedia.

If you haven't seen them, check out the new features here: https://pianoencyclopedia.com/blog/category/new-features/

As I said, we are writing a new section for our Chord Dictionary that will include composers, musicians, and expert's tips from around the globe about how to use that chord types from composing and improvising in your favorite music styles.

We have already defined the structure for these tips, but I wanted to listen to your feedback for suggestions or new feature requests, so that we can make these changes before we release the final version.

For example, do you know the Diminished Seventh chord (Cdim7)? Played in C, you would have C, Eb, Gb, A (actually Bbb, which is the enharmonic to A ). I know it must sound familiar, and if it doesn't, I am sure you have heard it in many songs.  Did you know that this chord can be useful for enriching your piano playing and chord progressions, and that most composers use it for modulation purposes as a pivot chord to go from one key to another?

The diminished chord has a strong dissonant sound and given it's nature it can be resolved by moving up to any major or minor chord that is a semi-tone up from the current diminished chord's keys.

So let's say you have Cdim7 -notes C, Eb, Gb, A (Bbb) - then you can resolve up from Cdim7 to any of these chords C# Maj, C# min, E Maj, E min, G Maj, G min, A# Maj, A# min.  (For example, play Cdim7 and then C#min, or Cdim7 and then C# Maj, or even Cdim7 and then A# (Bb) min, all these examples will sound smooth and harmonic to your ear)

We're including tips like these from beginner to advanced that include piano sound recordings, interactive animations, and a harmony terms dictionary- as well as introductory lessons. Old Theory books make you read hundreds of pages, and sometimes they don’t even tell you a thing. Our idea is to express the 'harmony tricks' as clearly as possible -and straight to the point- so that you can use them directly in your piano playing and your compositions. No wobbling around.

Most importantly, not only are we going to tell you How to apply those tips, but also WHY those tips work by explaining the music theory concepts behind those tips.

Please take a look at our current Expert Tip's structure:

General Structure of Chord's Expert Tips
A) Overview (Introduction to chord type, for example lets say Diminished Seventh Chords)         
1) Practical Tip 1: (A practical tip about how to use the Diminished Seventh chord in your compositions and piano playing with a professional sound )
                a)Chord Progressions (Animated Examples with piano keyboard animations and sounds of how to use that tip, by using chord progressions)
                b)Theory: (Explanation of why the tip works, and why it sounds so good when used,  by using music theory)

2) Practical Tip 2... and so on

Tips would be ordered from easy to advanced. All of them will be easy to apply and full with animated examples, but their music theory explanation -the WHY- (part b in the previous suggested structure) may vary from easy to advanced for more complex tips. (Would you like having small icons that show their complexity level? ).

This would be the Tip's structure for all chord types.
***Do you like it? Would you like to add anything in or change it?***

Features:
          1) by clicking on a button you'll be able to transpose all the experts examples to any tonality, or one semitone up or down too. Sound and animations will be transposed accordingly.
          2) All important words that portray music concepts will be highlighted and you'll be able to read more about those concepts by clicking on them. (or on mouse over)
          3) All chord, scale, and interval names in text will be highlighted and on mouse over or mouse click a pop up will appear showing you an animated keyboard illustration with sound, as well as a brief summary of that chord, scale, or interval information that will include it's equivalent names.



This would be all the features this section will have.
***Again, do you like it? Do you have any proposition you would like us to add?****


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Cheers!
Rod

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