Some people believe that learning the piano must be terribly difficult. It's a beautiful sounding instrument that can either be used to play a very simple tune made up of only three notes or a complex piece of music with thousands of notes. You can peck out a tune with one finger or play intricate scores that require each finger to do something different. And you can play something that requires only about 8 keys, or one octave, or the piece can have you flying from one end of the keyboard to the other.
Given all those possibilities, it's no wonder that learning the piano looks like a complicated and difficult endeavor! Just looking at the number of keys can be intimidating—88 in total. How are you supposed to learn 88 keys and then try to figure out which combination and order to play them in?
The truth is that learning the piano is simple, as long as you can learn 7 keys—once you learn those 7, you automatically know the other 81! And whether or not you can read music, you can learn those 7 keys. In fact, you might not realize it, but you already know them, so you've already got a head start. It sounds unbelievable that it could be that simple, but it is.
You know the alphabet already. Say the first 7 letters out loud—A, B, C, D, E, F, G. You don't have to learn that, you already know it. Those are the 7 keys you need to know—and they're in that order on the keyboard. Once you hit a key and figure out which note it is (which letter it is) then the next is simply the next letter in the alphabet. And when you hit G it starts over against with A. It doesn't sound so complicated now, does it?
While this might seem like very simplified instructions, this is where everyone learning the piano starts, with the most basic information, the names of the notes. See the black keys on the keyboard? Notice that they're grouped in twos and threes. Every group of two black keys comes directly after a C, so the white key to the left of the first black key in every group of two—the white key actually to the left and touching that key—is a C, without exception. Now that you know this, you can find every C on the keyboard. And by going backwards or forward in the alphabet you can name every white key.
Now that learning to play piano no longer sounds so intimidating, get a basic piano instruction book for beginners so that you can learn to associate each key with its written note. You can find courses online to help you learn, or you can take private lessons. And if you'll think of learning in step by step terms and see how simple each step is, you'll be learning the piano and tickling the ivories in no time.
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Originally posted 2009-01-09 05:13:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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