The Piano Podcast with Mario Ajero
Summary: I teach music and play piano. Occasionally someone pays me for it. I'm getting a Ph.D. in Music Education with a concentration in Piano Pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma. I'm also a member of MTNA (Music Teachers National Association). MP3 Audio Podcasts and M4A Enhanced Audio Podcasts are made through GarageBand 3 on my Powerbook G4. Video Podcasts are in Quicktime h.264 and created with a Sony MiniDV Handycam and iMovie. I'm originally from Cherry Hill, NJ. My other degrees are from Temple University in Philadelphia. I was Coordinator of Class Piano for Temple's Music Prep program in addition to teaching at the Haddonfield School of Performing Arts.
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Podcasts:
"Just Give Me a Reason" by Pink and Nate Ruess from fun. Video tutorial on how to play the piano part to the intro.
I explain how to play some basic chords often used in piano music and what it means when there is a slash symbol in it.
I show how to "clone" your musical self with a Yamaha Disklavier Piano and ScreenFlow video editing software.
It's Autumn All Right by Marti Lunn and Lois Brownsey performed by the Ajero twins. From page 86 of Alfred's Group Piano for Adults Book 2 by E.L. Lancaster and Kenon Renfrow.
8-year old pianist Antonio "Nio" Ajero performs the first movement (Allegro) of the Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 570 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Recorded in Cole Concert Hall at the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music in Nacogdoches, Texas.
4-year old pianist, Olivia Ajero plays in her first piano recital with Deck the Halls and Jolly Old St. Nicholas accompanied by her brother, Antonio "Nio" Ajero.
8-year old pianist, Antonio "Nio" Ajero performs "Winter Scene" by William Gillock.
8-year old pianist, Antonio "Nio" Ajero performs the 3rd movement (Presto) from the Sonatina in C Major, Op. 13, No. 1 by Dmitri Kabalevsky.
With the help of the iPad and Yamaha Disklavier, Antonio "Nio" Ajero performs the 4-hand piano duet entitled "Alameda" from the American Popular Piano Repertoire 7 book by Christopher Norton.
Antonio "Nio" Ajero and his sister Olivia Ajero play the theme from Angry Birds by Ari Pulkkinen - http://www.aripulkkinen.com Happy Halloween!
Just downloaded the Yamaha Visual Performer app for the iPad and connected it to my Disklavier Mark IV Grand Piano. As you can see, it works very well with it and any other MIDI device.
We received a RemoteLive broadcast of Sarah McLachlan on September 29, 2012 at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. Before the concert, I delivered a pre-concert talk/demo on the Yamaha Disklavier piano with the help of my 3-year old daughter, Olivia. She performed "Old MacDonald Had a Band" from the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Piano Lessons Book 1 on the Disklavier piano as it was connected to an iPad running Home Concert Xtreme.
Mark from London, England asked how to distribute the piano part between the two hands for the song "Read All About It: Part III" by Emeli Sande.
I teach how to play the opening piano part to "It Will Rain" by Bruno Mars. This arrangement comes from the NoteStar App for iPad by Yamaha.
Two-Part Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) performed by Antonio "Nio" Ajero, pianist.
