Online piano concerts are experiencing growing popularity. Through virtual performances broadcast live or recorded, music lovers now have the opportunity to explore a multitude of styles and interact with artists from around the world, all from the comfort of their home.
Like Reggae, salsa, or blues, boogie woogie is a complete musical style with a vast repertoire, pieces of all levels, and piano techniques that are unique and typical to this style, giving it a strong identity. When you play a wild boogie woogie, you can be sure that people listening to you won't be able to help but smile, tap their feet, and eventually dance if you keep the tempo! In this article, we'll discuss the origins of Boogie Woogie and the reasons why it's a great musical style to work on at the piano.
Für Elise is a classic, one of the most famous pieces in the piano repertoire. Why does this piece remain an essential part of piano learning?
Before creating Tokatab, we observed many aspiring pianists (it's easy, our CEO is a piano teacher...). And we designed our application and method based on these observations. Here are the pillars of Tokatab's pedagogy!
Learning music is like learning a language, you can very well start speaking it before knowing how to read and write it. It's in this spirit that we conceived Tokatab as a learning method without music theory focused on the main gestures necessary for playing piano.