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- Piano
- Keyboard
- Synthesizer
Middlesex university London certified artist teaching piano keyboard and synthesisers for all levels.
- Piano
- Keyboard
- Synthesizer
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About Raj
Raj is a 24 - year old Pianist and Music Producer/audio engineer
Raj was born in a remote part of Gujarat, India. To be precise, Mangrol city. He was born in 21st of October in the year of 1998.
MUSICAL BACKGROUND AND ENTRANCE IN MUSIC.
He was interested in music since his birth as he had a good musical family background.
His uncle and father used to play the Keyboard and his father had a knack of Indian Classical Singing too.
In the 6th Grade,that is in the year 2009, his Father took him to Tabla classes and the Tabla was his first instrument. He learned Tabla for almost 4 years and achieved Upandhya Visaradh degree from Gandharva Mahavidhyalaya.
SHIFTING PLACES AND CAREER.
After completing his senior secondary, that is, his 10th grade, he shifted to Ahmedabad, Gujarat in 2014 to pursue Diploma in Automobile Engineering. Alongside his studies, he joined Vibration School of Music to learn Western Classical Piano.
Not finding much interest in Diploma, he dropped studies to fully concentrate in Music. He gave exams of London College of Music till 3 grades and passed with distinction.
KM COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY.
To widen his perspective and gain more exposure for coming ahead in his career, he joined KM COLLEGE. He started learning Piano under the guidance of Mr. Gabriel Johns. He started learning western classical pieces of famous composers like J.S. Bach, Eric Sati etcetra. After getting acquainted with these pieces, he found the techniques very useful and learnt a lot. He even directed and was a huge part of two Gujarati songs which have over 70k views on YouTube.
Apart from Youtube tutorials, he got the exposure to proffessionally learn production and he even improvized his older techniques. Apart from FL Studio, he is well acquainted with other softwares like Logic Pro X and Abelton Live.
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- Beginner
- Intermediate
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levels :
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Proficient
Children
1st year
2nd year
3rd year
4th year
Graduate Student
PhD
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
Basic Piano Curriculum
Beginner Level 1 and 2 - Approx. 15 session of 40 mins -
Parts of the piano
Types of keyboard/piano( acoustic, electric , grand piano, upright piano)
Sitting properly (sitting position and fingers positions)
Alternate finger exercises, basic scales
Physical discipline of playing and moving single notes
Identifying notes as you play
Keys to keys and octave to octave movement
Notes of the scales and basic theory.
Intermediate Level - Approx. 13 sessions of 40 mins -
Call out notes as you move finger to different notes and scales
Play single notes in order and at random while naming each note.
Chord families
Basics of the major and minor scales
Basic triads chords
Basic scales structure
Proper chord finger positioning
Use tab sheets and diagrams to illustrate how to break the chords into arpeggios
Work on fingers that are problematic
Start on very simple and slow chord progressions
intervals
Advance Level - Approx. 18 sessions of 40 mins -
Work on longer, slightly more complex songs progressions
Work on more songs and perhaps try with a click track or metronome
Moving and transposing scales on the piano
Theory linking notes, chords and scales
Memorise short, basic scale shapes
Work on simple lead segments and melodies from familiar songs
Theory involved with basic intervals
Intervals and improvising
Work on some basic improvised piano pieces
Rhythm and leads
Musical dynamics and playing intensity
Play through songs and work on paying attention to dynamics and intensity of the music
!The number of sessions for each level would vary from student to student.!
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Rates
Rate
- $9
Pack rates
- 5h: $45
- 10h: $90
online
- $9/h
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