subject: Learning to Play 15 Easy Piano Songs in 5 Days [print this page] Beginner piano lessons can be fun and exciting. I highly recommend you begin your piano skills process on how to play the piano by viewing instructions and training on videos. By simply playing the video, you will receive both visual and audio information at the same time In addition, by viewing these videos you will become acquainted with the basic skills necessary for reading easy pieces on the piano or keyboard. From each video subject, you will learn more about notes on the staff, intervals, basic rhythm patterns and of course the physical piano keys that will correspond from what is written on the musical staff and how it relates to each note on the piano in a highly visual environment.
From the beginning, you must have an instructional piano book that will provide you with the basic concepts of piano technique. A good basic piano course by Alfred or Faber can easily be found on Amazon. If not these authors then make sure your other book choice includes chapters with treble and bass clef note diagrams, basic rhythm components and note values, first chords and harmony and an intervallic approach to reading music.
If you have difficulty understanding what you have read, the greatest benefit to you at the start will be looking at these videos. It will allow you to watch and listen to an expert demonstrating each particular piano skill. The video method helps you to learn and master a musical piece faster and easier than any other method because you can view and review the video as often as necessary to gain the particular piano skill. You can choose from a song that has a slow speed as a start then move on to a faster tempo as you feel comfortable to do so.
You can also learn by just listening to small segments over and over again. Audio trainings would be very helpful because it will also develop your keen sense of playing the piano by ear. Imitating what you have heard can teach you to try it out on your keyboard until you will embed the melody in your memory and make it your own. This is just learning by note but it will definitely help you. You can be considered a successful piano student by learning this instrument without even the help of a live music teacher sitting next to you.
Also, you can also try by learning how to play this musical instrument using a keyboard with lights that illuminate when you press the black or white key. This aids you in learning to play a song and play it by following the light that will signal you to push your finger on a specific key and create a familiar melody.
Approach your beginner piano lesson with confidence and determination and you will learn how to play the piano by yourself. You must keep a daily regular practice schedule in order to develop the hand coordination and audio visual skills necessary for this fine art.
