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Saturday, September 3, 2011

A Look At Piano Lessons For Beginners

By Andy Penbram


If you are thinking about taking piano lessons you'll see that there are many alternate approaches to learning you can take. Even the personal piano teachers all have their own method of teaching. When you're just starting out then you will no doubt be a little puzzled by all many options available to you. These are some pointers to help decide which is the best way to take piano lessons.

To become proficient on the piano can take many years of working hard and practice. By contrast, plenty of other instruments such as the guitar let's say take a lot less time to become good. On the guitar you can learn one or two simple chords and be playing songs within a few minutes of picking it up for the very first time. With the piano however this will take far longer.

Regular individual piano lessons with a professional teacher can be quite exasperating to begin with for the beginner piano player. You will start to play some straightforward tunes when you've learned where all of the notes are. In the beginning you'll play with a single hand, then you'll play with the other. After a few lessons you could get to playing something straightforward using both hands together.

There is a somewhat different and better approach to piano learning in the new home study courses that have become available on the web recently . In contrast to the traditional piano lessons these will show you how to play by ear and how to read music at the same time. The approach has similarities to learning guitar where you are shown some basic chords via a sequence of videos and inside no time you'll be playing great sounding piano music.

Learning to play the piano by using one of these home study programs will let you to become skilled in several different playing styles or genres inside a very brief time. When you learn like this you'll be taught pop, jazz, blues and even classical straight from the beginning and won't have to wait till you are an advanced player.




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