Piano MIDI files
Greetings! You may have arrived at this Musicarta.com 'Piano MIDI files' web page from a number of different directions, so here's a quick orientation. This web page is a central download location for the MIDI files relating to Musicarta's free online piano lessons. Musicarta.com is a free online piano lesson site dedicated to helping you learn to play popular music styles at the keyboard, with the emphasis on CHORDS and how to play them. (Click up to the Musicarta home page here for an overview of the site - or bookmark us to check it out later.) Musicarta offers MIDI support for most of its learning material - meaning you can download MIDI files of the musical examples in the lessons and hear-and-see them play on a 'virtual keyboard'. Musicarta recommends the free 'MidiPiano' desktop application for playing the MIDI files. It's completely safe to download, and easy to install and use. You will find instructions for doing so, and for dealing with the zipped folders of MIDI files, on the Musicarta MidiPiano download page. If you're already a MIDI ninja and have arrived here looking for heavy-gauge MIDI files to use in your sequencer/DAW, sadly Musicarta doesn't have those - but you might still gain a lot from your visit. Download the Pyramids Variations MIDI files, click through here to the first lesson in the Pyramids Variations series, and see how the combination of Musicarta, MidiPiano and your free MIDI files can develop your chord vocabulary and keyboard chord skills. But however you got here, welcome!. Please bookmark us and browse the tabs on the navbar, left, at your leisure, and see if Musicarta couldn't kick-start, re-start, fast-track or just re-kindle your musical journey! |
The MidiPiano virtual keyboard
To get the most out of your piano MIDI files, Musicarta recommends MidiPiano, a small, safe and simple application that can easily become a helpful part of your music learning process. MidiPiano has a valuable ‘Piano Roll view’ which displays music graphically – the chief reason for using piano MIDI files.
There are full instructions for downloading and installing the free MidiPiano virtual keyboard and for downloading and extracting the zipped Pyramids MIDI files folders on theMusicarta MidiPiano download page . You will find instructions for using MidiPiano to play your Musicarta MIDI support files there also.
MIDI file download links
Enya is the latest tab on the Musicarta navbar! Her standard keyboard texture is simplicity itself, and her haunting Celtic melodies are a gift to the 'New Age' piano soloist. Musicarta is rolling out a series of 'how-to' videos on the Musicarta YouTube channel. MIDI files and annotated chord charts are also available. Download your Enya MIDI files and chord charts here Click through to the Musicarta Enya page here. With Musicarta's combination of explanations, MIDI, video and chord charts, you can't fail to learn these simple but attractive piano solos.
The Musicarta Canon Project is now rolling out! Click through to the
Canon Project home page hereDownload the Canon Project MIDI files here Note: The Musicarta Canon Project is rolling out progressively, so as new modules appear you will have to download the zip folder of MIDI files again. Delete previous folders to keep your desktop clean and make studying easier.
The Pyramids Variations is Musicarta's flagship series of online piano lessons. A series of eight graded modules builds up to an impressive Concert Performance, teaching creative theory basics along the way. Click through to the Pyramids Variations home page here.Download the Pyramids Variations MIDI files here
The Musicarta Seventh Chords drill is a methodical way to get on top of these essential but sometimes confusing chords.Download the Seventh Chords MIDI files here Musicarta's Yann Tiersen 'Comptine' mini-series shows how this keuyboard gem is put together, and how to make it part of your repertoire. Download the Comptine mini-series MIDI files here The Musicarta Keyboard Chords - Inversion Method shows you how to practice inversions so that you 'see the chords in the keyboard' and can easily put any of the three chord tones at the top. Download the Inversions Method MIDI files here The Musicarta Chord Progressions series progressively introduces you to the families of key chords you are bound to come across in any song, starting with the famous 'Big Three' major triads - 'I, IV and V' ("One, Four and Five"). Get methodical, and get a head start. Download the Chord Progressions MIDI files here Once you have downloaded the files and extracted them use the MIDI ('M') file reference numbers in the tables to locate the file and see-and-hear the musical example playing in MidiPiano. You are sure to find it a valuable addition to your learning resources!
Listening to MIDI files as audio
Most media players, including Windows Media Player and Real player, will play MIDI files as audio, so you can use these small MIDI files as audio support files to help you learn away from you computer and without being connected to the internet. Double-clicking the file icon will in most cases make the media player play the file.Young musicians who know about MIDI sequencing and have software synthesisers or DAWs will be able to use the Pyramids MIDI files as source material, but please note that all Musicarta material is copyright the author unless otherwise stated, and all rights are reserved.
Pyramids 'playing by ear' performance files
The following tables contain audio performance files for a Pyramids Variations ‘playing by ear’ challenge. You will probably need to have worked through Musicarta's Pyramids Variations series of online piano lessons to take up the challenge!The table titles give you a clue as to what to look out for, and the standard Pyramids chord sequence is used throughout, slightly modified in the Circle of Fifths and Suspensions sections. Visit the Pyramids Variations postscript 'Continuation Page' for the bigger picture.
Pyramids: Developing the Bass Line (DBL)
Pyramids using Mixed Inversions (MX)
Pyramids: Descending Variations (DV)
Pyramids in Four-four Time (FF)
Pyramids and the Circle of Fifths (CF)
Pyramids using Suspensions (SUS)
Pyramids: Further Variations (FV)
If you do not already know the Musicarta ‘Pyramids Variations’ series of free piano lessons online, visit the series covering page, or browse Musicarta’s home page for an overview of our other free online piano lessons. Bookmark us and visit regularly to stay up to date with more MIDI support files on the way! You can hear what you could be playing on our audio table of contents – the ‘Sounds’ tab in the navigation bar, left.
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