Guitar Chords & Tabs

Although piano playing is considered to be a solo affair, much of the repertoire of a pianist is, in fact, collaborative. There was a time when aspiring musicians were encouraged to specialize in the area of their expertise when it came to music making. This was for them to develop a selling point that is unique to them.  Today, young musicians are encouraged to be more flexible and engage with all aspects pertaining to performing as well as teaching. So how does this affect an aspiring pianist?  Unlike in the past, today being a pianist is not limited to being a part of a solitary practice such as, the trajectory that follows playing in a recital which is then followed up with solo touring.  There are very less solo performers that manage to sell out stadiums as compared to scores of others that work as pianists in schools, conductors, accompanists, and so on.  Pianists are a regular sight in almost every institution such as schools, in universities where they ar...

For musicians there are many skills that they should be adept at, one such skill is to read sheet music. Now there are many people who might disagree with this by saying that it is not necessary to learn reading sheet music as one can also learn instruments by recognizing the variations in sounds. While this might be true to some extent, there is a vast majority of budding musicians who are not able to do so.  No matter how much they try, there is always room for some errors. What comes to the rescue musicians in such situations is learning how to read sheet music. As an indispensable part of music teaching, it is an absolute necessity to put effort into learning how to read sheet music if you want to be an outstanding musician.  For someone who is aspiring to become a professional piano or a guitar player being able to read sheet music helps you recognize notation from a technical point of view which further helps you to learn and perfectly play the music that you have neve...