Taking Online Piano Lessons For the 21st Century Pianist
We all know the advantages of online piano lessons these days and the drawbacks of the old way.
If you’ve ever invested in and afterwards discontinued an instruction book or even traditional piano lesson method book, you no doubt know how disheartening that may be. It is unfortunate that people confine themselves to that one unique published book they thought would teach them. The traditional method of learning keyboard involves teaching piano notation first and then moving onto more fun stuff like playing melodies. With online piano lessons, you get to start with the fun melodies first and learn piano notes alongside. Of course, there`s a lot of theory that one must master first, but you still get to perform easy piano music versions of your treasured songs from the very beginning.
But there are still many types of online piano lessons you have to choose from
The first thing you have to decide on is a style. Gospel? Classical? Pop? Rock? Yesterday’s Hit in the Radio?
Gospel will require you to learn many advanced harmonies so you should start learning music theory as early possible. With classical, you’d better get a good grip on learning how to read piano music, because those compositions have no limits to have advanced the piano sheet music can get. However, with pop/rock you can learn ‘chord patterns’ by ear without having to learn notation.
Also, always try finding a method that’ll suit your peculiar learning style – irrespective of whether it be by ear, working with chord patterns or even the traditional method of using sheet music and studying chord structures.
To recap, you have at your disposition, several ways to learn keyboard today, either by reading through sheet music and learning the piano notes, or by just learning the harmonies. You`ll have to learn about to read sheet music when faced with the task of wanting to play other people`s music. For those who want to produce their own compositions, chord understanding is a must – and much simpler to learn about. In fact, it`s way less complicated and more fun to make the music function first before getting into all the nitty gritty of reading sheet music and learning music idea.
One thing to keep in mind when settling for online piano lessons is to get some discipline. Make an effort to do something new each day while leaving one day free in the week. Always begin studying a new composition as instructed in the manual – religiously. You won’t have someone to check for your bad habits, so follow instruction carefully before you decide to get ‘experimental.’
Always keep the end goal in mind: Regardless of whether it be a wedding ceremony, social events or a personal concert that you are preparing for, keep that end goal in mind to stay enthusiastic about the process of learning to play piano. Piano music is so rich in lots of emotions and thoughts, covering anything from playfulness to exhilaration and is often as comforting and amorous as any other type of instrumental music.
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