The organ pedals can be a difficult task. All of these passages with our fast feet disturb many organists, and it can be frustrating to the pedal hard to learn lines. However, there is a mystery to overcome the difficult parts pedal technique and developing a great pedal.

Perhaps the most famous organist of the 20th Century, the French Marcel Dupré wrote once that the secret of the perfect pedal technique, the flexibility of the anchor. Here I want to tell you a little story about Dupré as a teenager. This story is of course the pedal technique, as you will see.

In his youth, Dupre used a lot of practice on the piano. Yes, the piano pieces he first learned a collection called “Musical ABC”. It consisted of as many pieces as letters in the alphabet. While Dupré everything they learned in the course of a summer. (more…)

Playing guitar by ear is indeed a skill that most of us want to learn. Sometimes we just want to learn to play our favorite songs as soon as we hear them on the radio. You may want to find out the secret of those who just listen to the song and then play it directly on the guitar without even looking at any chords or guide.

You may have probably thought that playing guitar by ear is something that you can do after you have mastered everything about guitar playing. Indeed, it requires time, patience and lots of practice but it will pay off great in the end. As soon as you learn playing guitar by ear, you can then play any song you want even by just listening to it, and you don’t have to find tabs or sheet music to be able to play a song. It will also help you play with other musicians easily.

If you are looking for techniques that you can use to help you learn playing guitar by ear, you can actually find a number of them. If you plan to get tutors in developing this skill, you may find different approaches to this learning process. You can also find good software to help you with ear training if you want to do it by yourself, and if you want to practice it in your own pace.

In mastering the guitar and being able to play songs by just listening to it, you have to learn to recognize chords, chord progressions, the melodies and intervals. You can learn this by training your ear to listen to music and develop the skills of identifying intervals or the differences in the pitch of notes. (more…)