Learning to Play the Piano

[FoolishOne]

Anyone here play the piano? I kinda want to learn how. I know EFGABCDEF (the lines) and I know the positions on the piano for C and D etc. Its the intricacies, like the sharps and flats, bars over several notes, pedals, and the whole left hand/bottom set of lines (forget what they are called) things that stump me.

I can play, albeit 5 times longer than it should be, a song or two. I just need practice, but when I try and get sheet music I always run into something I don't understand, and searching for "piano notes with bars connecting them" is useless. Does anyone of a Java thing that would help me to speed up using the keyboard?

I am too cheap to pay and attend lessons. Does anyone know of any free resources on the net that would point me in the right direction or a book that would help.

Any help is appreciated.

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[cajunangel]

bottom line...ya get what ya pay for... nothing you shell out money for will ever get you as far in life as hard work and dedication... invest the time in what you love and great things happen. :biglaugh:

 

[whudafux]

Are you playing the piano just to play other peoples music or do you eventually want to compose a song of your own? If you want to compose your own music, I strongly advise against learning from someone else. If you learn from someone else, you pick up their style of music. Id suggest just buying a book and learn how to play by yourself. Thats how I learned to play the piano, guitar, bass, and drums. The piano is the base of all stringed instruments tho. If you learn the piano, you will pick up guitar pretty easily. If you know how to play guitar, then you already know how to play bass, and drums....well thats a whole other story. Thats where the fun starts.

 

[Yellow 13]

Press the tempo button. Instantly go from noob to pro.


maybe get one of those ones with the light up keys.

 

[DreamerTheresa]

I'm sure there are plenty of books/vids/etc to help you out. Would help you more than winging it, and certainly cheaper than lessons, though I'd suggest investing in one or two anyway.