Learning The Piano Does Not Have To Be Hard
February 28, 2011Learning the piano can be easy. Now of course if an individual wants to read music the traditional way it can be time consuming. This is not the only way to learn to play.
If classical music is to be pursued, it would be prudent to hire a professional teacher and start at book one. Depending on how much practice is done and how many instruction sessions per week will determine how long it will take to master the instrument.
Classical music requires knowledge of musical terms, dynamics and basically all the theory. It will also require learning how to read music. This is all necessary to be able to play the musical piece exactly the way it is written, in order to play with other classical musicians.
Classical training is not really necessary if a person just wants to play music they love. The musical scale is made up of only twelve notes. This scale is referred to as being chromatic. This scale uses all the white and black keys. The intervals in this scale are all half steps. If a key is skipped it is a whole step.
There are only seven notes in a major scale. The eighth note on top is called the octave and is often added to the scale. The first note is called the root or the tonic and is the same note as the eighth. In the key of C, no black keys are played. The note C is located right before the two black keys. Middle C can be found right in the middle of the instrument often just to the left of the name decal.
The musical alphabet scale starts on A and ends on G. Then the scale starts over. So a C major scale is C, D, E, F, G, A, B and the octave C. The last note is called the octave because it is eight notes above or below the root or the tonic of the scale.
The C major scale uses no black keys. When you look at the keyboard, notice that in two places there is no black key between the white keys. Starting on C and counting the keys up the scale, a person will notice that there is no black key between notes three and four as well as between notes seven and eight. These intervals are half steps. So a major scale can be found in any key by counting the notes, playing in whole steps except between the third and fourth and the seventh and eighth tones.
So learning the piano does not necessarily require formal training, if a person doesn’t want to play classical music or play by reading notes. Some people can hear a song and play it without any musical knowledge others need notes to read. If a person does well on his or her own learning from a book, no instruction is really needed.
For the best advice on all aspects of learning to play the piano visit Learning The Piano for all you need to know. Alternatively, read Learning The Piano Is Not As Hard As It Seems for more information.
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