How to start playing the piano

Do you think you are too old to start playing the piano? If yes, you’re wrong. And with these tips, this process will become as easy as playing at Woo Casino.

Before Knowing the Music

If you think you can’t play without knowledge of music, you’re dead wrong. A child learns to speak first, and then to write and read. Here is the same story. Firstly, you need to learn how to extract the sounds, then connect them into consonances, chords, and then build your musical phrases.

Some self-taught musicians don’t know music at all, but they play well and pick up music by ear. This confirms the fact that the hurry to learn musical notation is not worth it. It’s all in good time. Concentrate on learning the instrument, sitting at it properly, and using it properly.

The Right Way to Practice Piano

You have to practice consistently. It’s about dividing a difficult piece into stages and mastering it as the difficulty increases. For example, learn the chords of the left hand first, then gradually involve the right hand and finally combine into a whole piece by adding tempo. You should not begin to learn complex elements without fully mastering the basics.

Slowly, loudly, exaggerated is how to deal in the early stages. This style will help your fingers memorize the piece faster. In the process of learning, these movements should become imperceptible.

You need to repeat the exercise with the right fingers. When learning the piece, make sure that the child starts each time with the right fingers and does not change them during the repetition process. This can be compared to a dance. It is impossible to learn a dance without mistakes every time you start with a new foot.

How to Learn Compositions on the Piano?

What is the right way to learn songs on the piano – all in parallel or one at a time? Experienced piano tutors state that if you have less than an hour of class time, you should not start another composition without having fully mastered the previous one.

It’s not recommended to diversify classes. For example, today you learn one piece for two hours, tomorrow – another 2 hours, and the day after tomorrow you have an etude with scales. Fingers from such breaks will “forget” what was learned a short time ago.

If several pieces are studied, each of them per day should be spent at least 30 minutes, otherwise, the work of studying them can drag on indefinitely.

Buddy Iahn
Buddy Iahn

Buddy Iahn founded The Music Universe when he decided to juxtapose his love of web design and music. As a lifelong drummer, he decided to take a hiatus from playing music to report it. The website began as a fun project in 2013 to one of the top independent news sites. Email: info@themusicuniverse.com