Q. After listening to lots of classical music, I've decided I would really like to learn how to play the piano. I'm 20 and have a fairly musical background, in that I can read both bass and treble clef, understand chord progressions and the other basics of music/tonal theory. Do you think it's too late to start learning?
A. no way. twenty is so young and you can still break bad habits quickly. I took piano when I was eight. Hated it. Now that I'm 41 I'm starting to get into my kids learning and I've bought a few books to help me. You are only limited by your mind. Put your mind to it and play for fun because the piano is a great thing.
Is there a musical system for creating single key harmonies on the piano?
Q. For instance hip beats and pop music tracks are pretty much composed of single key harmonies made on keyboards. So i just imagine there must be some system like chord progression for chords for single key harmonies.
A. It's called music theory - learn it and that will teach you the basics of how music is created.
Can you name and explain the different ways to read music?
Q. Chords Progression, Music Theory, Music Notation, Tablature, and etc.
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A. Chord progression, music notation and tablature all loosely fall into the Music Theory category.
Music theory is an organized way to see and understand why music/chords/notes sound the way they do in relationship to eachother -- essentially it's the science of why some music sounds good and other notes sound awful when played together --
Chord progression is the order of chords in a song. In pop music there are typically not a huge number of chord progressions, just a few recycled over and over again (if ever you can guess what note/chord is coming next in a song because "it just sounded like where the piece was going" it's because you have an ear for chord progression)
Tablature is normally for a specific instrument and correlates to playing on that instrument (i.e. guitar tab). It is no good for music that can be translated to other instruments
Music notation/sheet music involves the treble clef and bass clef and presents music in such a way that it can be read and moved from instrument to instrument. For example, you can give a piano player, a cello player and a violin player the same piece of sheet music and each could play their part.
If you want to learn HOW to read music quickly. Also wikihow is not a bad resource for beginners but you'll outgrow it in a hurry.
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Title : Is it too late to learn how to play the piano?
Description : Q. After listening to lots of classical music, I've decided I would really like to learn how to play the piano. I'm 20 and have a ...