Teach Yourself Piano-3 Easy Lessons To Help You Learn To Play Piano Keyboard
It used to be that if you had piano lessons you would have to go through the routine of learning how to play your scales over and over and over again. You would have to learn how to sight read music so as to not look to see what your hands were doing. Yes this was the way to become a disciplined concert pianist. This relentless regime has turned many would be maestro away from making music altogether. I have written seven articles to help you Teach Yourself Piano of which this is number three, each containing a little music lesson and sound information to help you get started and hopefully teach yourself.
Most people would like to play their favourite song on the piano and sing along even if they were sitting at home alone, to be able to play and just sing to yourself, wouldn't that be cool. Or sing to your loved one, perhaps that's going too far, LOL. You will be ecstatic to find out that you can with a little coaching, easily teach yourself to play music.
To me music should be fun, music should be easy, and should be accessible to everybody. You should know that playing the piano is achievable by anybody; you just need to know where to look. Learning to play the piano for fun is easy; becoming a concert pianist will take a bit longer. Therein lays the problem with a great deal of music teachers. They want to teach you all there is to know about music before you can play a decent sing along tune. I'm not saying you can't become a concert pianist, that's down to you and your ambition. But for now I would like to get you interested in playing the piano for fun; the serious stuff can come later.
1. This can be quite an adventure if you treat it as a fun thing to do. So let's get you started with a few tips, to guide you. For this little exercise you will need some sort of keyboard or piano. You will notice that on your keyboard there are repeated sections of keys, that is to say two black keys together and a set of three black keys together. We are interested firstly in the two black keys left of centre on your keyboard. In fact we want the white key left of the two black keys. That white key is the note "C" in most cases this would be called the middle C. and is your main reference point.
2. From here we can stay on the white notes and go right. Using your right hand, use your right hand thumb to play the C note then with your next finger play the next white note to the right, this is the note "D" carry on going right and white to "E", "F". "G","A","B" and you will notice your next note is to the left of the next pair of black keys, which means we are back to "C". So you have played the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. which is the scale of C major.
3. You now know the scale of C major and you might be saying, but there are eight notes and I only have five fingers. Here is a little trick for you; with your right hand play the first C with your thumb the D with your index finger and play the E with your middle finger, now here is the trick, slip your thumb under your palm to the next note F and release your fingers, now you have four notes to play and you have four fingers free to play them.
Practice this over and over and you will see that it makes sense to do this, so that you can flow to the next notes. Play these notes backwards and forwards and your fingers will remember where to go, we can call this is finger memory. Now if you are an adventurer try it again and go all the way up the keyboard and back again, then try it with your left hand, forward and backwards. This will be your next practice routine. When you are comfortable and competent with this try it with both hands at the same time, slowly. Practice this, it will loosen up your fingers and help with coordination; slowly, slowly wins the race.
There you are, that's the hard bit over with; you are now a budding keyboard player. If you want to now play some tunes to sing to, look out for my next few articles where I will show you how to play some easy chords to sing along to. Don't forget practice makes musicians. Musicians can write and sometimes sing their own songs; this is now not impossible for you.
Most people would like to play their favourite song on the piano and sing along even if they were sitting at home alone, to be able to play and just sing to yourself, wouldn't that be cool. Or sing to your loved one, perhaps that's going too far, LOL. You will be ecstatic to find out that you can with a little coaching, easily teach yourself to play music.
To me music should be fun, music should be easy, and should be accessible to everybody. You should know that playing the piano is achievable by anybody; you just need to know where to look. Learning to play the piano for fun is easy; becoming a concert pianist will take a bit longer. Therein lays the problem with a great deal of music teachers. They want to teach you all there is to know about music before you can play a decent sing along tune. I'm not saying you can't become a concert pianist, that's down to you and your ambition. But for now I would like to get you interested in playing the piano for fun; the serious stuff can come later.
1. This can be quite an adventure if you treat it as a fun thing to do. So let's get you started with a few tips, to guide you. For this little exercise you will need some sort of keyboard or piano. You will notice that on your keyboard there are repeated sections of keys, that is to say two black keys together and a set of three black keys together. We are interested firstly in the two black keys left of centre on your keyboard. In fact we want the white key left of the two black keys. That white key is the note "C" in most cases this would be called the middle C. and is your main reference point.
2. From here we can stay on the white notes and go right. Using your right hand, use your right hand thumb to play the C note then with your next finger play the next white note to the right, this is the note "D" carry on going right and white to "E", "F". "G","A","B" and you will notice your next note is to the left of the next pair of black keys, which means we are back to "C". So you have played the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. which is the scale of C major.
3. You now know the scale of C major and you might be saying, but there are eight notes and I only have five fingers. Here is a little trick for you; with your right hand play the first C with your thumb the D with your index finger and play the E with your middle finger, now here is the trick, slip your thumb under your palm to the next note F and release your fingers, now you have four notes to play and you have four fingers free to play them.
Practice this over and over and you will see that it makes sense to do this, so that you can flow to the next notes. Play these notes backwards and forwards and your fingers will remember where to go, we can call this is finger memory. Now if you are an adventurer try it again and go all the way up the keyboard and back again, then try it with your left hand, forward and backwards. This will be your next practice routine. When you are comfortable and competent with this try it with both hands at the same time, slowly. Practice this, it will loosen up your fingers and help with coordination; slowly, slowly wins the race.
There you are, that's the hard bit over with; you are now a budding keyboard player. If you want to now play some tunes to sing to, look out for my next few articles where I will show you how to play some easy chords to sing along to. Don't forget practice makes musicians. Musicians can write and sometimes sing their own songs; this is now not impossible for you.
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