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Where can i learn to play the hogwarts march,hogwarts hymn,and the potter waltz on piano?

hymn — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:00:01 +0000

I don’t know anything about pianos but i just want to get the keys down so i can play them.I’ve already tried youtube.

Concert Or Professional Pianists….?

hymn — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:17:30 +0000

I have a question for anyone who is a concert or professional pianist.
I really have started to love the classics after getting into the Bastien intermediate level piano books. I am wondering, considering that I can’t play by ear, is it possible for me to really ever learn to play the classics. I can play the melody of a song on the flute and piano by ear, but I can’t seem to put chords together to save my life (I can improvise hymns to some extent, though)
Have any of you learned this without being able to play by ear, or do you know anyone who has? Thanks so much.
I really want to learn to play classical music, but I don’t want to just botch them all up, and I want to know if I am wasting my time or not trying to learn. Thanks agan!

Program That Plays Sheet Music?

hymn — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:17:13 +0000

Is there a program that can read and play (in any form) sheet music, or even just the lengths of the notes, that I scan, or enter manually, into my computer? I play by ear and memory very quickly, but as a result, don’t read timing very fluently. I can write in and learn the notes easily enough, but need to be sure I learn the timing correctly, (i.e., a dotted quarter note and eighth note, vs. 2 quarter notes) and will have trouble “un”-memorizing it, if I assume and practice the timing wrong, without hearing it. These are hymns in my church, most of which I have never heard and am not yet familiar with. Thanks

Milestone Jokes?

hymn — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:18:04 +0000

JOKE TIME AGAIN
The Catholic Church’s air conditioning broke down, so they
had to hire a man to crawl around in the ducts and figure
out what was wrong.
As the man peeked down through one of the vents in the
sanctuary, he saw little old Mrs. Murphy kneeling by the
altar, apparently saying her rosary. Since the man was a
fundamental Baptist, he thought it’d be funny to try and
mess with the lady’s mind.
In his best authoritative voice, he said, “This is Jesus.
Your prayers will be answered.”
The little old lady didn’t even blink, just kept on saying
her prayers. The man decided maybe she didn’t hear him, and
tried again. “This is Jesus, the Son of God! Your prayers
will be answered!”
Again, she didn’t react at all. Mustering up a big breath
of air, the man decided to try again. “THIS IS JESUS
CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD! YOUR PRAYERS WILL BE ANSWERED!”
The lady looks up and says, “SHUT UP! I’M TALKING TO YOUR
MOTHER!”
Two blondes were driving through Louisiana. As they were
approaching Natchitoches, they started arguing about the
pronunciation of the town. They argued back and forth until
they stopped at a fast-food restaurant for lunch.
As they stood at the counter, one blonde asked the manager,
“Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us?
Would you please pronounce where we are . very slowly?”
The manager leaned over the counter and said:
“Burrrrrrr-gerrrrrr Kiiiiiing.”
A little girl and a little boy were at day care one day. The
girl approaches the boy and says, “Hey Tommy, want to play
house?”
He says, “Sure! What do you want me to do?”
The girl replies, “I want you to communicate your feelings.”
“Communicate my feelings?” said a bewildered Tommy. “I have no
idea what that means.”
The little girl smirks and says, “Perfect. You can be the
husband then.”
Employer to applicant: “In this job we need someone who is responsible. ”
Applicant: “I’m the one you want. On my last job, every time anything went
wrong, they said I was responsible. ”
A blonde goes into aDunkin Donuts and notices there’s a “peel and win” sticker on her coffee cup.
So she peels it off and starts screaming, “I’ve won a motorhome!
I’ve won a motorhome!”
The waitress says, “That’s impossible. The biggest prize is a free Lunch.”
But the blonde keeps on screaming, “I’ve won a motorhome! I’ve won a motorhome!”
Finally, the manager comes over and says, “Ma’am, I’m sorry, but you’re mistaken. You couldn’t have possibly won a motorhome because we didn’t have that as a prize.”
The blonde says, “No, it’s not a mistake. I’ve won a motorhome!”
And she hands the ticket to the manager and HE reads…
“W I N A B A G E L”
A husband was in big trouble when he forgot his wife’s birthday.
His wife told him “Tomorrow there better be something in the driveway for
me that goes zero to 200 in 2 seconds flat”.
The next morning the wife found a small package in the driveway. She opened
it and found a brand new bathroom scale.
Funeral arrangements for the husband have been set for Saturday.
“Arizona Vacation”
On doctor’s orders, Johnny had moved to Arizona. Two weeks later, he was dead. His body was shipped back home, where the undertaker prepared it for the services.
Johnny’s brother came in to make sure everything was taken care of. “Would you like to see the body?” the undertaker asked.
“I might as well take a look at it before the others get here.” The undertaker led him into the next room and opened the top half of the casket. He stood back and proudly displayed his work.
“He looks good,” the brother said. “Those two weeks in Arizona were just the thing for him.”
“Airline Ticket”
As an airline reservation agent, I took a call from a
man who wanted to book a flight for two but wasn’t
happy with the price of $59 per ticket.
“I want the $49 fare I saw advertised,” he insisted,
saying he would accept a flight at any time. I managed
to find two seats on a 6 a.m. flight. “I’ll take it,”
he said, then worried his wife might not like the
early hour.
I warned there was a fee of $25 per person if he
changed the reservation.
“Oh, that’s no problem,” he said dismissively. “What’s
fifty bucks?”
“Twelve of the Most Terrifying Things to Hear”
1. The dentist says: “This won’t hurt a bit.”
2. The IRS announces: “We are simplifying the tax
forms.”
3. Your lawyer says: “This is an air-tight case– you
can’t lose.”
4. Your stock broker says: “This little drop in the
market is just a minor correction.”
5. Your physician says: “You’re in great shape–
you’ll live to be 100!”
6. Your business partner says: “Nothing can possibly
go wrong.”
7. Your best friend says: “Trust me–
I’ll never tell a soul.”
8. The directions on a do-it-yourself kit say:
“Even a child can do it.”
9. Your colleagues say: “We’re behind you 100%–
we’ll back you up.”
10. Someone giving you directions says:
“You can’t miss it.”
11. The airline pilot announces: “Just a bit of
turbulence folks– nothing to worry about.”
12. A voice on the telephone says: “Congratulations!
You’re an instant winner!”
“Fishing on Sunday”
A village pastor, known for his weakness for trout, preached
against fishing on Sunday.
The next day, one of his members presented him with a fine
string of fish and said, hesitatingly, “I guess I ought to tell
you, parson, that those trout were caught on Sunday.”
The minister hesitated, gazed appreciatively at the speckled
trout, and then said piously as he reached for his gift, “The
fish aren’t to blame for that.”
“Cross-eyed Bear”
A little boy came home with his parents from church one Sunday.
He seemed a little depressed, so his mother asked him if something
happened in Sunday School class that he would like to talk about.
He told his mother, “Well, we were singing songs and the teacher
made us sing about a poor bear named Gladly that needed glasses and I
can’t stop thinking about him. She said he was cross-eyed and I feel
bad for him.
The mother couldn’t understand why the teacher would teach such
a song in Sunday school, so she decided to call her. To the woman’s
amazement, the teacher said she only taught hymns that morning.
Then the teacher began laughing out loud and said to the mother,
“I know what Jeffrey’s talking about! We learned the hymn ‘Gladly The Cross I’d Bear!’”
“Benefits of Tithing”
Two men off for a sailing trip around the world are shipwrecked. The
minute they got on to the island one of them started screaming and
yelling, “We’re going to die! We’re going to die! There’s no food! No
water! We’re going to die!”
The second man comfortably propped himself up against a palm tree and
acted so calmly it drove the first man crazy. “Don’t you understand?! ?
We’re going to die!!”
The second man replied, “You don’t understand, I make $100,000 a week.”
The first man looked at him quite dumbfounded and asked, “What
difference does that make?!? We’re on an island with no food and no
water! We’re going to DIE!!!”
The second man answered with a confident smile, “No, you just don’t get
it. I make $100,000 a week and I tithe ten percent on that $100,000 a
week. Our church is getting ready to start a building program. My
pastor and the finance committee will find me”

Help We Need To Learn 10 Songs In 2 Days!!!?

hymn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:17:16 +0000

Me and my friend just got asked to play a small concert after a football game. We need 30 min. worth of acoustic Christian music. No hymns or super soft stuff. I don’t even know where to start. He will be playing the acoustic guitar and I will play the ukulele. It will be a cool sound but we don’t know what songs to do. We are both pretty capable musicians and we could really use some help picking out songs. We are looking at some Charlie Hall, David Crowder, Jeremy Camp, Hillsong, but have no idea what songs to do. I have access to just about any music and any song, I just don’t know which ones! Somebody please help us if we’re getting paid $400 for this so we want to do it good! Thanks to all! – Kevin and Nick

Do You Think That The Average Christian Really Has As Low Of An Opinion Of Themselves As They Indicate?

hymn — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:17:17 +0000

They always say how GOD is great and how Jesus is perfect. Then they go on and on about how much Humans suck. They love mentioning how the bible says; Human righteousness is like filthy rags, Noone is righteous, and how All have sinned and come short of the glory of god. In so many words, they basically say that everyone is as low as dirt. How we’re all stupud (far too stupid to understand GOD), devil worshipping sinners that deserve to die and burn for the rest of Eternity.
This ex slave trader wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace”, in which he refers to himself as a wretch. Sure I can see that. A slave trader, yeah, okay. I learned this from a preacher that made snide remarks about a man that didn’t want that hymn played at his funeral because of the verse “That saved a wretch like me”. That Preacher sucked.
I don’t think that a person should lower himself to the level of slime in order to do right by GOD. It isn’t healthy. I may not be perfect, but I’m no friggin wretch.

Next Step To Becoming A Professional Quality Pianist?

hymn — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:18:43 +0000

I am about to enter college, and I would like to know if I should pursue music classes there, if I am likely to be allowed to take them, and what would be required of me to enter them—i.e. do all colleges require auditions, and what level (or songs) would I need to be able to play in order to enter—or if it would be a wiser decision to attempt to find a professional teacher, and if so, where to find such a teacher at a (very) reasonable price. I am unlikely to be able to follow a musical career, but I would like to be able to play at a professional level.
I have played the piano for about eleven years now without the aid of a teacher. I first learned to play by reading books from the library when I was about eight. Since then, I have continued to teach myself to play by note—I cannot play by ear, although I can certainly pick out a basic tune—and have basically no foundation in chords, or what I believe to be called musical theory. I basically know the letters for each key, common piano terminology—i.e. piano or P means soft—and what all the sharps and flats mean up to six flats and five sharps.
I play well enough to perform in a church—I serve as a fill-in pianist and I play every Sunday morning while the congregation is leaving—and can play songs up to five flats or sharps with about the same level of ease as no flats or sharps. My main problems are with timing; especially if I cannot hear the piece performed or sung beforehand; velocity, I can achieve a good deal of speed in my right hand with practice, but am not as good with my left hand, making it very difficult to learn fast pieces that require the left hand to perform at the same level as the right, and the pedals; I never learned when or how to depress or to release the pedal, I simply started holding the right pedal down during the whole piece from the time I first learned to play.
I can play pieces in difficulty ranging from hymns—there are none that I know of that I cannot play—to most operatic transcriptions, including the full, five sharp version of La donna e mobile, and pieces of the full transcriptions of Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, and Tosca. I can play songs with timing such as that in O Sole Mio and Stride la vampa—both of which I play very well—with ease, as long as I can hear them performed before I am asked to play. I have not practiced playing songs from memory, so if I were to audition, that may pose a problem.

Re Term ” Classical Musicians Are Purists”?

hymn — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:18:12 +0000

I , of course, know what the word ‘purist’ means.
I am asking if there are different meanings to the term
‘purist’ to different groups. Could mean classical musicians endeavor to
play only as written, perfectly. Could mean play only classical music.
I play mostly not classical. I play hymns and some fake music. I would like to play some of the easy listening such as “Bring in the Clowns” or
“Have I Told You Lately That I Love You.”
“Endless Love” “Don’t Know Much.” I like that genre, also.
I also love Bluegrass but piano doesn’t get into that. I am working on guitar. Would love to be young again and learn classical guitar in addition to piano.
If I attempt to play classical, I try to play exactly as written, which of course, takes more practice. I can sometimes sit down and play a hymn
without practicing it because I heard it ten million times.
Probably literally ten million times. So the timing is sort of built in. I also have a natural sense of rhythm and timing. I mess with it at times trying different
chords, and inversions of chords.
However, classical takes a lot more practice due to
not have counted it before, etc. Also, I do not want to alter it. It is altered greatly until I get it right. Please don’t think
I am deliberately altering it. Really stop listening when I try to practice something I do not know. LOL
The last two years around Christmas, in Nov. probably
I have worked on Carol of the Bells. Looks so easy.
Is not to me. I have half way mastered maybe half of it, in some ways. I must work on the timing intensely, next year.
Maybe I will work on it all year. I know that approach is wrong. Should work on it measures by measures, and timing and all of it at once.
I am getting ready to start practicing in earnest. (Yes. I know, no one sentence paragraphs. So… this makes it three.)
Tell me how you practice? Do you play the entire song at once? I find I do better , as the man said, to break it down into pieces. However, I want to play the entire song..conflict there.
Do you practice as a ‘purist’? Don’t mix the genres?
Does it matter?

Piano Players Please Answer…?

hymn — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:17:15 +0000

I want to learn to play the piano from home. I have been looking at buying a Yamaha EZ150, a 61 key keyboard with lighted keys to teach you how to play. I want to play gospel, praise music & hymns. Will this be a good learning tool or do you need 88 keys to play the these types of songs? I really want to get a keyboard with weighted keys for the feel of a piano, but I don’t believe it’s abailable with a lighted, teaching keyboard like the Yamaha I found. For what I want to do, will 61 keys matter and could I use it down the road when I really learn how to play? Thanks!!!

Classical Playing Vs Pop/rock? Serious Question, Please Read Carefully.?

hymn — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:17:48 +0000

This is going to be long, but I’ll try to paragraph it in such a way that makes it easier to read.
I’m classically trained all my life. I’ve just started going for informal lessons on how to play contemporary worship and praise songs for church. I’ll try not to be too ‘religious’ here, but do excuse me for the occasional religious references that I’ll be using because of what I’m trying to explain.
Today was my second lesson. And after the lesson, the person teaching me basically went one big round to hint that my playing ‘lacks a spiritual dimension’ in the religious sense. She’s not the first one to tell me that. Previously, after I gave a performance of Liszt’s Waldesrauschen during my church anniversary celebrations – on an awful upright piano which had barely any sound in the top registers (I had to basically pound out all of my right hand notes) – a church member whom I’m not particularly close to came up to me and told me to ‘commit my music to the Lord’ because it doesn’t have enough ’spiritual dimension’. I wanted to ask him if he knew how bad the piano’s touch was. But I’ll admit that it wasn’t my most musical playing because it simply wasn’t possible to do. Maybe that gave him the wrong idea.
Because I’m just starting to learn how to play for a worship band, I’m not very comfortable with the strange chord notations used by my ‘teacher’ (’teacher’ because she’s not really my formal teacher, just someone who’s good at playing in bands). I can read things like Dm7/A, but the notation she was using was: I/III, V/VII, VI/II (for a ii9 chord). I eventually figured out that she’s notating all the inversions and extensions in terms of roman numerals. But tell me it isn’t confusing to read for someone who has been trained in classical music theory all her life. My ‘teacher’ told me that my playing needed more spiritual dimension. She hasn’t heard me play anything else other than my attempts at the contemporary songs.
Maybe I’m really missing something, but is it even possible to be playing ‘full of spirit’ when I’m still learning the ropes of pop/rock playing, and struggling to sight-read strange chord notations during fast, syncopated, ‘Disco’ songs, and not knowing the melodies for most of them yet? I think if I were to learn up all the notes, chords, rhythms, melodies, at home, to the point where I can play fluently and add all kinds of counter-melodies on top of the basic structure, she’s going to go “See, I told you to commit all your music to God, and he will take care of the rest” – ignoring the fact that I would have probably spent hours working on it instead of simply saying a prayer and magically be able to do it the next minute. Problem is, I neither have most of the music nor know most of the melodies well enough to do it. And frankly, this is supposed to only be an extra thing for me instead of my main focus of studies.
Have any of you classical musicians ever experienced this kind of ‘impossible demand’ from non-classical musicians? Did people think that just because you’re classically trained, you should be able to play anything on the spot and immediately touch others no matter what style of music it is and the condition of the instruments? My ‘teacher’ isn’t formally trained beyond the basics of piano playing. She’s a non-classical musician.
I have never had these problems when I was playing hymns for my previous church. Quite the opposite – people would often come up to me after service and tell me “that was beautiful, I was really touched”. So again, am I missing something? Or is it not so much my playing, but rather what type of music it is? Not discrediting some of the beautiful contemporary worship songs (which I love), but hymns speak to me so much more.
Tell me how to respond please. I’m religious and in fact am already committing every single one of my performances to God before I go on stage, but this – I’m not sure how to respond at all without blowing up in their faces. Please don’t start a ‘religious war’ here, that’s not my intention. I just want to see what others think.

Catholic Church Hymns?

hymn — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:17:27 +0000

i want to learn to play some church hymns on the piano, but i don’t know all the names to them
can someone give me a list of popular catholic church hymns,
for example – how great thou are, here i am lord, etc.
thanks

How Do I ‘chord’ A Song For A C-c Diatonic Bell Set?

hymn — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:17:34 +0000

I’m a minister, and I’ve purchased a set of diatonic bells for our youth (8 colored bells: C to C). I’ve read about the chord method of playing simple hymns. Is there some way to learn how to ‘chord’ hymns (other than the purchased songs) so our kids can play the chords for the hymns?
My understanding is that the chords represented in the bell set are: C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, and G7. Can anyone shed any light on chording the hymns or make any suggestions for the use of the bell set wtih the children and youth of our church? Thanks.

Lds Church Members Who Play Piano Please Help Me?

hymn — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:17:12 +0000

Okay. So I play piano. I have to learn “I Know My Father Lives” (hymn 302 in hymn book) by tomorrow because that is when I have piano lessons, and my piano teacher said I would be able to do it. It’s not hard, it’s just that I don’t think I got to play it in front of her when she assigned it (if I did I don’t remember), and I am not used to having my hands so close together and I need help with where my fingers go. I have played a song called “Jolly Old Saint Nicholas” though where the hands were closer.

Piano Help?

hymn — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:17:12 +0000

where can i learn to play the hymn “in heavenly love abiding” ?
a guy at my church asked me to acompany him while he sang that song…and he gave it to me like a month ago but i havent seen my piano teacher since then cuz ive been vacationing and so now idk what to do….

Anyone Know How To Read Piano Notes . I Need Help . ?

hymn — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:17:33 +0000

Im just learning to play the paino & I am playing a hymn. I need to know which note is the melody line on the treble cleff line.
example I have a mc C and then a E on the treble cleff. which one is the melody ( I only want to play the melody right now)

Where Can I Find Video Or Audio Of People Singing The United States Marine Corps Hymn?

hymn — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:18:22 +0000

All the videos I’ve found on YouTube are just people playing the song and there is no singing, WTF? Are these people too damn chicken to sing the song? I’m trying to learn the song, but it’s hard to know how it goes when you’ve never heard it sung.

Can Anybody Tell Me Where I Can Find Free Sheet Music For Gospel Hymns Online?

hymn — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:18:40 +0000

I am a beginner guitar player and would like to find gospel hymns that have easy chords I can learn to play.

Does Anyone Know If The Fake Piano Hymn Book Work?

hymn — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:17:16 +0000

I am learning how to play piano and it is getting harder everyday,that is at least for me and i was wondering if i could skip everything and just learn the songs.Do these books really work.

What Do Today’s Teachers Use To Teach Young Folks To Begin To Play Piano? What Earliest Age Of Pupil?

hymn — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:17:21 +0000

I had 4 years of piano 45 years ago. I quit when chords and scales were necessary to learn. My teacher taught me by having me learn classical music. Am trying to teach very young teens to play hymns for church to begin with. CD’s are available for accompaniment, but humans are more flexible for the planners of worship services. I have played for my church for 47 years both organ and mostly piano.

Do You Read The Treble And Bass Clef At The Same Time?

hymn — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:17:16 +0000

I’m learning to play hymns from a hymn book, and I was wondering whenever you get more advanced, and can just play a hymn from the book without practicing, are you actually reading both clefs at once?