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How to play the piano
If you are thinking about learning how to play the piano it might seem somewhat daunting to you at first. You probably have watched professional piano players and wondered how they can play such complicated pieces. Learning to play the piano or keyboards can seem to the beginner a really complex activity but it doesn’t have to be at all. The whole learning process can be really straight forward and simple if good teaching material is used.
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Here are a few guidelines on how to play the piano and to see that beginners piano doesn’t have to be as difficult as it seems:
Give yourself Time
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. Your brain needs to develop so that it gets used to telling your fingers how to move on the keys, it is an unnatural thing to do and your body needs time to develop. The only way to do this is by way of practice, over and over again. Before too long if you give yourself time you will find that playing suddenly doesn’t seem that taxing and you will get a confidence and competence in your playing.
Practice every day
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. Once you have embarked upon your piano playing journey, even if you don’t feel like practicing one day then you should try and make yourself do it even if it is only for a short while. A Few days without practice will put your progress back quite a lot.
Split your hands up
You should try practicing your pieces one hand at a time. To start you should practice the piece several times over only playing the right hand part. Practice with this hand until it feels easy and you are beginning to learn it. Then try playing the left hand or bass part on its own. Once again practice this left hand part until it becomes easier. Try playing now with both your hands together, you will realize that it is now much easier than before. You might find that this is an extremely effective way to progress rapidly and to learn pieces faster. Sometimes, if you have been learning a piece for a long time and know the piece quite well it can still be quite useful to separate your hands and practice them apart from time to time.
Train your ear
Many piano players have ‘good ears’ which is something that you will obtain bit by bit as you advance. Without a good ear you will not be able to hear if the notes you are playing are correct or not. A good ear can be trained and you don’t necessarily have to be born with it. 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 yourself
Enjoy yourself and have fun whilst playing is the best advice anyone could give you. It can be very easy to be hard on yourself whilst playing, especially if things aren’t going well. On the days when you don’t feel like practicing just go to the piano and play something even if its just scales or tinkering on the keys, just have fun and keep your hand in. 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.
Follow these tips as well as you can and you will find that learning how to play the piano doesn’t have to be complicated or boring in any way. Follow some of the tips offered here and you will surely be able to practice to high levels of proficiency and enjoy every moment of it.
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