Q. What is the best way for a beginner to learn piano? Lessons or do you think its a good idea to learn from youtube?
A. Okay then.
(The people's key?)
Anyway, you may want to first get yourself some books on piano chord basics, or a chart to understand the positioning (chord finger pattern) and octave ranges that can be played. A DVD with basic methods of instruction, or even a performer example at the keyboard will certainly help as an instructional aid.
If you then have a good keyboard with at least a 61-key layout, then you are in good shape to learn and it will provide the 5-octave range, to cover most all music and vocal styles ever played or written, short of concert piano.
Otherwise, anything smaller may do for now, hope it is not less than a 49-key to at least cover the singing voice.
Look for the piano guide system put out by a Scott Houston, 'the Piano Guy', as this particular instructor makes learning a piano less heady or involved and a more relaxed method for anyone wanting to learn piano at any age, or ability.
And as of any instrument of choice, it will usually take a year's time of learning to get to a point of becoming a serious player. A few months, if you are still interested and have the desire to continue at all.
Then, time will become irrelevant once you 'get into' and it becomes a good experience and you are bitten by the bug, and start to just enjoy playing a keyboard of any degree and at any level of accomplishment.
But actual lessons are certainly important and wise to try out if you have the opportunity. But, anyone can prepare with what has been outlined above.
Get to a music store, or GC, and take someone with you who is already into piano to make it all an adventure. And discover what all is on the market of which to choose from to get you started properly.
Chords relative to Capo on the third fret?
Q. Okay so I wanna know the convenient chord shapes of Em Dsus2 G Am C when I put a capo on the third fret. I have I think figured out that the Em relative to capo on 3rd is the standard Dsus2 shape (X X 0 5 6 X) but the rest I need to know.
A. Each fret raises the tone a half step. If you move C chord up two frets, you will have D chord; one more fret will make it Eb. Also you need to know that from E to F is a half step because there is no black note on the piano between E and F. Yes, you are playing guitar, but that still applies.
How long does it take to learn to play the basics in a piano and guitar?
Q. How long does it take to learn to play the basics in a piano and guitar?
A. I can't speak for the piano, but the guitars BASICS (as in the 9 or 10 basic chords) would probably take a month to learn the shapes. Mind you, plying them well can take anything form 2 months to 100 years, depending on how much you play. Find a song you like that uses simple open chords (I stated with the song "Polly" by Nirvana), and if you like the song enough then you'll have no problem playing it over and over until you get good at it. And, on a slightly more advanced note, don't be afraid to learn scales (Major, Minor, Pentatonics etc) and mess around, or improvise, with them. That's the way Ive been practicing for years
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