How To Play The Piano

You might feel a little overwhelmed when faced with the prospect of learning how to play the piano. You must have watched someone play the piano and wondered how on earth they manage to do that with so many keys and combinations of fingers to remember. Learning to play the piano or keyboards can seem to the beginner a really complicated activity but it doesn't have to be at all. With the right teaching or advice learning how to play the piano can be a really easy and straight forward process and not complicated at all.

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To learn the piano can be well within your capabilities, here are a few guidelines to help you along;

Know that you are not going to become a pianist overnight
You won't find it difficult to sit down and play great sounding beginners piano pieces right from start. The problem is progressing from there. The trick is to know that you need to allow your fingers to develop and your brain to get used to telling your fingers what to do. Practicing regularly is the only real way to develop. You will get to the point where you find that you are no longer struggling as much as you were before, your fingers will seem more responsive and your playing will sound better.

Schedule your daily practice
You need to keep practicing ever day in order to interiorize the movement of your fingers on the keys, your brain needs to become accustomed to these somewhat strange movements. Just missing a single day's practice can make for a serious set-back. Daily practice is important for the beginner so even if you don't have time of motivation then try and sit at the keyboard for at least a few minutes to play something. If you take time off playing then you will definitely notice the difference when you return and it will prolong that initial steep part of the learning curve.

Left hand and right hand
You should try practicing your pieces one hand at a time. At the beginning you should play the right hand part of the piece on its own. After having repeated this a several times you will find it has become a little easier and smoother. After this you should now try the left hand on its own. Once again practice this left hand part until it becomes easier. When you are pleased with each of the hands on their own you can then try to play them together. You will be able to become a much better player by using this little trick and practicing this way. Pieces you already know can also benefit from being played with separate hands occasionally.

Train your ear
This is something that will mature over time as you are learning how to play the piano but you will find that a lot of piano layers have what is known as a 'good ear'. Having a 'good ear' dictates if we can hear wrong notes or out of tune notes. It is said that you need to be born with a good ear but that is not totally true, you can train yourself to hear better and be more musical. You can often find little software utilities that can be used for ear training, there are some home study courses that include them as part of the course.

Enjoy playing
This is probably the most important advice of all. The having fun part can be easily forgotten when things start to go wrong but try and keep things in perspective and you will advance a lot more rapidly. If you don't feel like playing one day just sit at the piano and have fun, play what ever comes into your head or try and play a well know song by ear. Remember that the more fun you have the better the end result will be. When you choose which pieces you are going to learn you need to make sure they are in a style that you like so that you can have fun with them.

Practicing the piano or keyboards will not need to be anything else but fun if you follow some of tips offered here. You will surely have a great time learning to play the piano now you know what to look out for.

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