Play Piano Now

As I mentioned earlier, it took me years to learn to sing in a choir. When I decided to learn keyboard, I definitely didn’t want to repeat that experience. I really didn’t want to spend months working on boring mechanics before I could play anything that I enjoy. So I decided to do some shopping around, and I found a few piano tutorials. Most of them were pretty much crap, just another ebook of basic music info. Thankfully, one of them really stood out, and taught a completely novel way to learn the piano completely novel way to learn the piano.

It really worked for me. I was playing simple melodies the first time I sat down. After a week I could play with both hands and do simple accompaniments, and within the first few months I was playing some of my Rock and Roll favorites. Today, not quite a year later, I’m learning to play the great piano works of my favorite composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Field, and Brahms. For Christmas I’m planning to play a mini-concert for all of my family, with mostly popular Christmas music, and have a carol sing along.

Now I admit that I still don’t play nearly as well as many of my friends who play the piano. But they also practiced the piano for two hours every day since they were five, spending hours playing boring, miserable scales. They probably payed a teacher $60 per hour to do it too! And while that method is tried and true, I just didn’t have that kind of time or money. So I learned on my own, and in another year, I’ll be playing as well as the kids who have been playing since childhood.

When I look back, I can’t believe that I waited so long to start playing the piano. However, I’m so glad that I eventually decided to learn. I can’t tell you how well an hour at the piano relieves stress, or how good I feel when I hear a song on the radio and I can sit down right away and play a basic version of it. If I want to play like a pro, I just buy the sheet music for five bucks and go for it.

So anyway, this is what worked for me. It didn’t make me a master overnight, but it definitely got me started on the right path on my schedule with my budget. I still have to practice, but most days I look forward to that half hour all day long.

Hey friends, I’d just like to take a moment to let you all know why I decided to learn to play piano. Music has always been very important to me. I’ve been listening to music my whole life, and I like all types of music. I started listening to some classical music in high school. It’s not so much that I love the style, but I really love that orchestras require the combined effort, passion, and talent of a hundred people, all playing together.

I then decided that I wanted to start making music with my friends, so my sophmore year in college, I joined the choir. It took me the rest of my time in college to learn to read music, but I still really enjoyed learning to make my own music. That’s one of the reasons I decided to make this site. There is no reason that it should take anybody three years to learn to read sheet music.

After my experience in choir, I decided that I want to play music without a hundred other people. So around a year ago, I started to learn how to play piano. This time I got smart and decided not to learn to play keyboard on my own, but rather find some real help and get the job done right. Now I want to pass some of that information on to you.