Peter Edvinsson
Peter Edvinsson is a musician, composer and music teacher. Visit his site Capotasto Music and download your free sheet music and learn to play resources at http://www.capotastomusic.com
Articles by this Author
Guitar Lesson: How To Use The A-minor Pentatonic Scale In The First Position
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/30/2008
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When you learn to improvise you have most likely come across various guitar scales. But, how do you practice guitar scales in order to use them in your playing? In this lesson you will learn how to make music of scales!
Piano Lesson: How To Play From A Fake Book
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/24/2008
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A fake book can be a source of many inspiring piano exercises. It contains a lot of melodies written in a concise format that includes only the melody and chord names. Let us take a look at how you can use these melodies to become a better pianist!
Ukulele Lesson: Mary Had A Little Lamb Instruction
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/19/2008
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In this lesson you will learn to play a melody on your ukulele! You do not have to read sheet music. It is time to learn to play Mary Had A Little Lamb with an easy instruction and tablature notation!
Ukulele Lesson: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Instruction
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/18/2008
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You can actually play melodies on your ukulele! In this ukulele tutorial you will learn to play Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star in the key of C. I will tell you how to place your fingers on the frets so you will not have to read sheet music!
Ukulele Lesson: Jingle Bells Instruction
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/13/2008
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An ukulele is a fantastic little instrument to use as an accompaniment to your singing. You can also play melodies like the Christmas song Jingle Bells. I will instruct you how to play the melody step by step!
Piano Lesson: How To Practice For People
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/12/2008
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Have you ever thought about practicing in order to prepare to play in front of other people. What would you practice if you knew that you would play piano to an audience? Let us take a look at the people oriented way of practicing on your piano!
Piano Lesson: Let Performing Make You A Better Pianist
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/7/2008
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Performing your piano music can actually be a great way to develop as a pianist. By uplifting others by your music you will at the same time make your practice sessions more effective! You will also allow yourself to play at your peak level!
Piano Lesson: Learn To Play O Christmas Tree
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/5/2008
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In this lesson you will learn to play the melody to a popular Christmas song without the use of sheet music. You will also learn to play three easy chords together with the melody. Let us start!
Ukulele Chords: Jingle Bells
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/5/2008
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Jingle Bells is one of the most popular secular Christmas songs in the world. You will learn the chords to the song and also to play the melody in this ukulele lesson!
Guitar Lesson: Practicing Or Playing Music?
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/5/2008
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What is most important as you try to learn to play guitar? Technical guitar exercises or playing music? What areas should you focus on as you try to use your practicing time as effective as possible?
Piano Lesson: For Piano Beginners
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/5/2008
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Playing piano can be a wonderful experience. If you want to start playing piano sheet music you need to know a few of the conventions used in western sheet music notation. Let's make a little journey through the music notation djungle!
Guitar Tablature: Learn To Play The Star-Spangled Banner
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/5/2008
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With the help of guitar tab notation it is easy to play melodies on your guitar. In this guitar lesson we will play The Star-Spangled Banner.
Guitar Lesson: Learn Open Chords
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/4/2008
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It is really exciting to play guitar! You can experiment with chords in a completely different way than on the piano. The construction of the guitar and the tuning of the strings allow you to find these easy sounding chords!
Piano Lesson: Do You Really Want To Learn These Things?
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/4/2008
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Practice is essential to become a good piano player. As you play the piano and try to progress towards becoming a piano giant it is important to be aware of some traps that will prevent you from reaching your goal.
Ukulele Chords: Learn To Play Amazing Grace With Tablature
- By Peter Edvinsson
- Published 01/4/2008
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In this lesson you will learn to sing Amazing Grace with your own ukulele accompaniment in the key of C-major. We will use tabs so you will not need to know sheet music notation.

