Monday, August 1, 2011

A Look At Piano Lessons For Beginners

By Andy Penbram


If you're thinking of taking piano lessons you will see that there are plenty of disparate approaches to learning that you can take. Even the professional piano teachers all have their own strategy of teaching. When you are only starting then you will doubtless be a little confused by all the options open to you. Here are some pointers to help you make your mind up which is the right way to take piano lessons.

To become proficient on the piano can take many years of working hard and practice. By contrast, plenty of other instruments such as the guitar let's say take a lot less time to become good. On the guitar you can learn one or two simple chords and be playing songs within a few minutes of picking it up for the very first time. With the piano however this will take far longer.

Regular individual piano lessons with a private teacher can be quite annoying to begin with for the beginner piano player. You'll start to play some easy tunes once you have learned where all of the notes are. At the beginning you will play with only one hand, then you will play with the other. After 1 or 2 lessons you could get to playing something simple using both hands together.

There is a somewhat different and better approach to piano learning in the new home study courses that have become available on the web recently . In contrast to the traditional piano lessons these will show you how to play by ear and how to read music at the same time. The approach has similarities to learning guitar where you are shown some basic chords via a sequence of videos and inside no time you'll be playing great sounding piano music.

Learning how to play the piano by utilizing one of those home study programs will let you to become talented in many different playing styles or genres within a short time. When you learn like this you will be taught pop, jazz, blues and even classical right from the beginning and will not have to hang fire till you are an advanced player.




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