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Learn To Play Piano Part 1
Playing the piano is a great hobby to have. It is the perfect creative outlet that can relieve stress. It is a pastime that anyone can be proud of, and playing an old favorite on those ivory and ebony keys is a wonderful party trick. But, no matter what your motivations for learning to play the piano are, you’re going to have to take it slow.
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Yes there are those rare people who can sit down at a piano having never played it before and play Beethoven, but statistically speaking it is very unlikely that you are one of those people. Those people have some kind of natural gift, but that doesn’t mean you will never SOUND as good as they do. All it means is that your road to becoming a piano virtuoso is going to be long and filled with lots of little baby steps.
Just like anything that takes a lot of abilities to do, learning to play the piano is going to take a lot of practice. Learning to do anything that’s worth learning is going to take daily devotion, disciple, and self-motivation. If these are not your fortes, then learning to play piano can have the side benefits of improving your self-discipline.
The thing is, you will have to learn icky, boring songs in the beginning because they are easy to play. Playing “Hot Crossed Buns” or “Mary Had a Little Lamb” a thousand times doesn’t sound like fun, but if you want to sound like Elton John or Billy Joel, you’re going to have to start with those old nursery songs to help get your mechanics down right.
So, make yourself a little schedule. Actually writing it down and hanging it up by your computer or work desk or kitchen table is best. Put it somewhere you can see it every day to remind yourself to practice. Put an inspirational picture on it. My practice schedule (I still keep one after playing the piano for 12 years) has a picture of Fats Domino on it because Fats is awesome.
Also, you’re going to need to be able to read music. There’s just no way around this part of learning to play the piano. Rock star wannabes don’t really need to learn music to play the guitar because of guitar tablature. Guitar “Tab,” as it’s also called, just shows what fret your finger needs to be on for any given string for any given note. Since there are only five strings on a standard guitar, this is a much easier thing to read than actual sheet music.
For budding pianists, however, there really is no substitute for reading music. If the piano was a guitar it would have 88 strings! And since piano players use both hands to play rather than using one to hold notes while the other one picks or strums.
