The Musical Instruments - Learn - Listen - See
Requirements
- For this course, there are no requirements to follow it. Just love for music and the curiosity to learn about the musical instruments of our world.
Description
This is a free course I created for everyone that wishes to learn about the musical instruments that exist in our world. You don’t need to have music education in order to follow this course. It can also help you choose to learn a musical instrument if you have this in mind.
The sounds we hear in music come from many instruments. As we grow up, we learn the most popular instruments like piano or guitar, or saxophone.
In many occasions we hear sounds that are not so familiar to our ears, and this happens because the musical instruments are so many that it is truly difficult to recognize all these sounds.
In this course, I will show you the musical instruments in 5 categories:
Brass Instruments
Woodwind Instruments
String Instruments
Keyboard Instruments and
Percussion Instruments
We will see classical instruments we see in big orchestras, or traditional instruments that outline the folk music of many countries, instruments that have a deep history, or others that are current.
And for all these, you will listen to me performing the sounds on my Yamaha keyboard called D-Deck. I will play the sound of every instrument I describe to you to have a complete realization of the instrument. As you understand, the number of the existing musical instruments is vast, but I will show you many of the instruments that exist and I will describe to you the major features of the instruments. Maybe in these sounds you will hear, there is one that will make you try to learn it.
Sit back, grab a nice cup of coffee and watch a rich sound experience that I have planned for you.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone with musical interests, love for music, curiosity about the sounds we hear, interest about the instruments of our world.
Instructor
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- 2,627 Students
- 7 Courses
I was born in Athens, Greece,in April 1967.
I started my love affair with music at the tender age of 13. I am a Multi-instrumentalist specializing in Organ, Piano, Flute and Orchestral Percussion and I am also a Yamaha featured keyboard artist.
My tour in Japan under the auspices of the Greek National Tourism Organization broadened my horizons as to Asian music.
I have been working as a music teacher since the age of 18. I have teached Electone (electronic organ) that is also my specialty, modern piano, and also music technology.
I am the conductor of the Youth Orchestra of the city of Farsala that consists from 15 young musicians aged 12 to 20 years old.
I have transcribed and written over 100 piano arrangements. I have also composed music for over 25 piano and orchestral books. I have performed on many stages as a session musician for many decades and I have been booked for numerous concerts all over Greece. Over the past few years, I have performed in various theaters and concert halls as a member of Constantine Duo, made up of George Laskaridis (trumpet) and myself (organ). Our repertoire consists of my compositions.
I have also performed at Thessaloniki Concert Hall, one of the major concert halls in Greece
As a composer,I was featured at Bleeding Fingers contest by Hans Zimmer, among 7000 music compositions.
I have composed music for several fairy tales as well as for the film“Game of Assassins”as an additional composer
In May 2019 I had the honor to be in the finals of an international film music competition organized by Megaron Athens Concert Hall.
Ι had a long-term collaboration with the 1st principal cellist of the National Orchestra of Athens, Dimitris Gouzios. We produced a CD together called“Cello Christmas”that has various arrangements of Christmas carols.
Being interested in art, I was recently booked for a painting exhibition featuring the Greek artist Petros Matzakos
I make music for Pipedream books, and Stamoulis publishing company and I make music for fairies for them.
Everything new is a challenge for me and I am always open to new collaborations and projects. Even when I am not working on a project,I always compose new music and search for new creative musical ideas.