Antonio "Nio" Ajero performs the Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 29 by Frédéric Chopin at the 2014 SMU Institute for Young Pianists in Dallas, TX. Nio won 1st prize in their piano competition for students in grades 4-6.
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Friday, March 07, 2014
How to play Let It Go from Frozen on piano
Tutorial on how to play the piano introduction to "Let It Go" from the Disney motion picture "Frozen" on piano.
Learn the rest of the song by arranging an online lesson with me on ToneRow at http://www.tonerow.com/marioajero
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Schubert Marche Militaire Duet with Disklavier Piano
Marche Militaire Op. 51, No. 1 composed by Franz Schubert performed using the video synchronization feature on the Yamaha Disklavier Mark IV Pro Grand Piano.
For more information on Yamaha Disklavier Pianos, visit: http://www.yamaha.com/disklavier
| Original Compositions for Piano, 4 Hands - Volume 1 (A Selected Group) Piano Duet. By Franz Schubert. This edition: LB1778. Piano Duet. 112 pages. Published by G. Schirmer, Inc. (50261660) See more info... |
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Audition to study piano with Mario Ajero
This is a video invitation for anyone interested in receiving personalized video piano lessons from Mario Ajero. View the video to find out how to be considered as an online piano student. The YouTube version of this podcast where you can submit your video response can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROsCjz5Lf1U
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
2008 Schmidbauer Piano Competition Invitation
An invitation to all eligible pianists to enter the inaugural 2008 Schmidbauer International Young Artists Piano Competition.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Reduced-Size Keyboards Part 2
Part 2 covers reactions and testimonials from pianists who have used the 7/8 reduced size keyboard, including Dr. Anita Renfroe from Millersville University.
In addition, Sarah Evans and Peter Davis from Bob Jones University share their results from a research study measuring pianists' adaptability to the 7/8 keyboard.
To get more information on David Steinbuhler's keyboards, visit: http://www.steinbuhler.com.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Reduced-Size Keyboards Part 1
From the 2007 National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, Dr. Carol Leone demonstrates the benefits of the 7/8 Reduced Size Keyboard, including preventing injuries and allowing pianists with smaller hands the ability to play repertoire that they were incapable of doing before.
To get more information on David Steinbuhler's keyboards, visit: http://www.steinbuhler.com
To get more information on David Steinbuhler's keyboards, visit: http://www.steinbuhler.com
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Intermediate Piano Repertoire
Heather and Jordan review two series of intermediate piano repertoire collections. One is "Piano Literature from The Developing Artist Library by Nancy and Randall Faber. The other is "The Festival Collection" edited by Helen Marlais. To learn more about studying piano pedagogy at Stephen F. Austin State University, go to: http://music.sfasu.edu.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Arranging Hymns for Piano Students
Hyera Kim takes over The Piano Podcast to discuss arranging church hymns for your beginner piano students. To learn more about studying piano pedagogy at Stephen F. Austin State University, go to: http://music.sfasu.edu
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Triads and Inversions
In this video piano lesson, I cover triads and inversions along with fingering in the right hand. We apply that knowledge to playing an arrangement of the first few bars of "Let It Be" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Here's a link to one arrangement of the song:
The Beatles - Let It Be - Sheet Music (Digital Download)
Here's a link to a simplified arrangement of the song by Mona Rejino:
The Beatles - Let It Be - Sheet Music (Digital Download)
Thursday, June 28, 2007
How to Play Trouble by Coldplay
This is a re-podcast of how to play the first few measures of the song "Trouble" by Coldplay on piano. It was originally recorded in May 2006. If you find the lesson helpful, below you will find links to buy recordings and sheet music for the song "Trouble" from iTunes and musicnotes.com. Buying music from these links will donate a small portion of the sales to me, your friendly-neighborhood piano teacher!
Buy Coldplay's Trouble from iTunes for $0.99
Buy the music video of Coldplay's Trouble from iTunes $1.99
Click here to buy the Coldplay Parachutes music book which contains "Trouble" from musicnotes.com
Click here to buy the Coldplay Parachutes digital sheet music which contains "Trouble from musicnotes.com
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Alone in the Ring
I originally posted this in December 2006 as a "How-To-Play..." video. This short piano piece is entitled "Alone in the Ring" composed by Bill Conti. It was featured in the "Rocky" movies that my dad used to take me to as a kid.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F
Here's the performance of the first movement of George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F featuring piano soloist, Chris Reeves, and the Orchestra of the Pines directed by Gene Moon. For more info on studying piano at Stephen F. Austin State University, visit: http://music.sfasu.edu
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Duets With Your Piano Students by India Aquino
India Aquino shares some tips and benefits of utilizing duets in the private lesson setting. Many thanks to all the pedagogy students who took on this podcast project for the first time. If you're interested in studying piano pedagogy at Stephen F. Austin State University, visit: music.sfasu.edu.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Dalcroze Eurhythmics with Jordan and Heather
As part of my ongoing series with my piano pedagogy class, Jordan Yerkes and Heather Nolan give an introduction to Dalcroze Eurhythmics and share some activities that can be used in a piano class or lesson. If you're interested in learning more about studying piano at Stephen F. Austin State University, please visit: music.sfasu.edu.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
How to Play Trouble by Coldplay on Piano
By popular demand, here's another video podcast piano lesson on how to play the song "Trouble" by Coldplay. I also answer email and comments from the first Coldplay piano lesson podcast.
If you find the lesson helpful, below you will find links to buy recordings and sheet music for the song "Trouble" from iTunes and musicnotes.com. Buying music from these links will donate a small portion of the sales to me, your friendly-neighborhood piano teacher!
Buy Coldplay's Trouble from iTunes for $0.99
Click here to buy the Coldplay Parachutes music book which contains "Trouble" from musicnotes.com
Click here to buy the Coldplay Parachutes digital sheet music which contains "Trouble from musicnotes.com
These links were made through LinkShare
. I think I prefer to use this because I have more control over what is displayed and only show products that are related to the podcast and endorsed by me.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Group Piano Ideas with Julie Knerr
In this video podcast, I interview Julie Knerr about successful group piano activities that she uses in her studio. She shares video clips of her students to illustrate.
This is one of the largest video podcast files I've made at close to 90 MB. I hope you're patient and give it a chance to download. I think it's worth the wait.
If you use any of these activities with your piano students, let us know how they work out!
Duration: 14:42
File Size: 87.1 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 Video Podcast (.m4v)
Sunday, March 19, 2006
How to Play Clocks by Coldplay
In this video podcast, I show how to play the piano part to the song, "Clocks", by Coldplay.
Duration: 4:34
File Size: 24.1 MB
File Format: MPEG-4 Video Podcast (.m4v)
Update: As of August 1, 2006, the YouTube version of this video podcast has received over 10,000 views and has been favorited 176 times. Pretty cool. Of course, when I see that other videos are up in the hundreds of thousands of views, then it's a bit more humbling. Nonetheless, this is by far the most popular podcast episode of the bunch. Hopefully once I get settled into my new job and home, I'll be able to do more followups to this.
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