Wednesday, July 27, 2011

How to play piano - Novices Guidelines

By Alvar Elofsson


Some pianist learned how to play piano by studying all the principles of music and the piano. They thought that will be enough. The truth is you have to learn the piano by hearing too! Piano is not just key in the right notes and reading the musical piece. You have to put your emotions through it.

Each piano practice method you have, include some other exercise. This can be like 10 minutes playing your favorite piece by the heart or some piano piece that you are already familiar with or you can perform with the audience so you can boost your confidence for the next time you will be having a concert.

Piano is a very remarkable solo musical instrument and always referred as the "King of all instruments". Listening to piano music is like listening to an orchestra. You can produce ten different key tunes with your ten fingers like you are playing with ten different musical instruments. This becomes the tool for writing music of composers.

You can easily memorize each musical piece by identifying first some patterns of the musical notes written according to scales, chords or intervals. You can encircle the groups of notes in different colors such as blue for the groups of scales, red for chords and green for intervals before playing them.

Vertical or horizontal piano, what are they? These are two basic categories of piano. They differ in the string position and the height. Vertical pianos have four types - the spinet, console, studio and upright. The horizontal piano also called the grand piano because it is said to produce finer tune than the vertical. This has six types - petite, baby, medium, parlor, semi concert or ballroom and the concert grand piano.

Learning how to play piano, first you have to learn the theory of music. There is no skipping from this pre requisite. It will hurt your skills. If you do not know the underlying principles and theory of music, you cannot read thus you cannot key in the right key in the piano.

Why motivations are important throughout your piano lesson? Motivations keep you going to the entire ordeals you will undertake throughout your practice especially when you become tired and weary. This will encourage you to achieve more each day. Let's say some small goals you had set before you begin your lesson. Will it feels good when you had achieved more than what you had dream of?



There is a debate on accuracy versus tempo. Which is better? Most teachers recommend to go for slow practice, slow reading to have an accuracy on key in notes when you learn how to play the piano but as much as possible have a steady rhythm because 50% of music is rhythm.

There are many methods you can do when learning to play piano. There can be different exercises involve each day. After mastering the three piano techniques - finger exercises, scale exercises and the etude exercises - you can combine the three techniques to call it your lesson for the day. It can be 15 minutes finger exercise, 15 minutes scales and 15 minutes etudes.




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