Play Piano Now

Just a heads up for what I’m doing with these posts. I assume that if you want to play piano music, then you are probably also interested in some the history of piano music and some of the top composers. This isn’t meant to be a complete history course, but rather just quick info about some of my favorites. If you’re really interested, I’d still rather you learn to play piano now, and learn about piano composers later.

I’ve decided to start with Mozart because he probably the most famous composer of piano music. Mozart’s music is very catchy, and usually very light and fun to play and listen to. It’s usually written for a pretty quick tempo, but it’s also pretty simple, so not to be extremely difficult for the beginner piano player.

Even those of you just learning to play piano probably know Mozart’s story. Mozart was the most prodigious composer, probably the most prodigious person, to ever live. He wrote his first compositions at the age of 3, and was playing for royalty at 6. By 17 he was the court composer in Salzberg. He was dismissed from that position, and moved to Vienna, where he spent the rest of his life and composed his most famous operas, concertos, and symphonies. Although he never had trouble finding work, Mozart was terrible with money, and died young and poor. He left his most famous work, a Requiem Mass, unfinished.

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.