Q. To any musicians out there, because that's really the only individuals i care to hear from on this thank you, I need some advice. I can teach myself piano. I know I can. And I will. But where should I start musical wise? The posture and position, the piano, the notes. I've got all that. Just where do I go from there? Learn musical theory? Scales? Chords? I'm lost. If anyone could, please, just tell me where to start. I can, and will, take it from there.
A. I wrote a piano manual that is available at www.classicalpianolessons.com and it is also available as a Kindle download via Amazon. Major and Harmonic Minor Scales, the way I teach them, using fingering charts. by Eva Martin Hollaus. I strongly feel that everyone needs a piano playing foundation in scales, chords, and arpeggios. And the very beginning explanations on how to THINK piano, how to go about practicing is described, exactly how I walk my students through. I also have lots of important information on my blog and further links to purchasing printed manuals, all major and minor scales in fingering charts. http://howpiano.blogspot.com/ All basic chords, inversions and cadences, all arpeggios and a complete workbook manual that includes all the theory explanations I take my students through. I just started explaining my books on youtube and you can view the very first manual at my channel: playpianoinallkeys.
You will find, that if you acquire a piano playing foundation first - and as an adult with 30 - 45 minute practice 5 days a week, it should take you about 12 weeks. 1 week for each key, all keys are included with fingering charts, so you are not hanging up struggling trying to read notes while training your fingers. The charts are correctly labeled, so you are learning to first work the fingers, your ear and consciously / subconsciously your musical mind. Then when you learn to read notes, you already have your ear trained, your fingers are working for you and it's not all new for your mind.
Good luck.
How to play the piano?
Q. 1.) How to start playing the piano?
2.) How to practice reading sheet music?
3.) Your experience in learning to play the piano?
4.) What are some things very important to learn in playing the paino?
5.) How do you know how long you press each note?(How many seconds are there in one beatandwhat does the time signature mean?)
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A. 1) Find a beginner book that teaches you new notes or chords or find someone willing to give you piano lessons.
2) There are little workbook things that can help you with that. I use the letter tricks, Every Good Boy Does Fine, FACE, Great Big Dogs Fight Animals and All Cars Eat Gas.
3) I have been playing the piano for 8 1/2 years.
4) The completely circular notes you hold for the whole measure. The ones with just an outline and stem you hold for half a measure. The black ones with stems are quarter notes, (hold for a quarter of a measure) Eighth notes look like quarter notes with a tail, and 16th notes have double tails. The time signature means how many beats are in a measure. If you are playing 3/4 time, there are 3 beats.
Anyone that plays piano or guitar.?
Q. Okay, when you have a song that is in say the Key of D, how do you know what chords to play with it? And for instance if the song is in D how would you chance it to a differnt key, say B?
I'm trying to teach myself to play piano, but I'm stuck. I want to learn to play by chords instead of music, but I have no idea how to do it. I got a thing off of the internet and it has all of the chords that are in a certain key, but I don't really know how to use them in a song. And plus their for guitar, and I don't know if that would make a difference with piano or not.
Anyone that has any imformation PLEASE help. I am desperate. And please give as much info as you know.
A. You need to learn theory to understand how scales and key signatures work, then you'll know what chords to play in what key, and how to transpose (change keys).
Chords are the same for piano and guitar. Chords are simply groups of notes. So, if you downloaded something that gives you the chords for the key of D on guitar, you can use those on piano too. Your 3 major chords in every key are the basis for modern songwriting. In D, that's the D chord, the G chord, and the A chord. F# minor and B minor are really common too, in the key of D.
Just start putting chords after one another and find a sound you like. Experiment!
Here's a great, free, downloadable theory workbook. It will get you going in no time. (It's not mine -- I just think it's the best free theory course out there, bar none.)
http://www.gmajormusictheory.org/Fundamentals/workbooks.html
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