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Alright I’ve recently started playing piano… Or restarted if you want and now I’m looking to buy a keyboard. Just something to jam with, I don’t take lessons or anything and I’m not no mozart. I have a good musical background so I’m not an amateur with music but I just need suggestions for a good keyboard (nothing too expensive here) and the brands to go for a what not.

Thanks for the help

Justin

I have been playing piano for 9 years and I got an offer to teach piano to a 5 year old autistic boy. I was thinking about doing a 30 minute lesson but I don’t know how much to ask for, at least to start. Any suggestions on what you would charge?

I’ve been playing piano for almost 8 years now. and I play at churches/etc. I’m really serious when it comes down to playing piano. I have also taken lessons when I was younger by a japanese pianist. Can anyone recommend a keyboard for me to use for future use.

I am going to start teaching preschoolers piano, but I’m not sure where to start as far as lesson planning goes. I’ve been playing piano for 13 years and I’ve been working at a preschool for 3 years, so I know what I’m talking about, but I don’t know where to begin, as far as what to teach my first lesson, second lesson, and so on. Can someone please help!

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I am a college student and have been playing piano for 15 yrs. I have been teaching lessons for four years now. Since I started while I was in highschool , I set my price very low ( a half hour). But now I want to raise it. How much should I charge? How much would you pay? And should I raise it only for new students, or how could I raise it for the students I have had for these four years? Is it fair to charge different amounts for different people? Thank you!

Even though I take lessons, I play piano as a hobby and drums are my primary instrument
Even though I take lessons, I play piano as a hobby and drums are my primary instrument and I been playing piano for 6 months

I just started playing piano about maybe a week ago, i been using this book which is great; however, ive gotten to a certain chapter and ive realized that its alot easier to play with my right hand.
this is the book ive been using is that normal?

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Learning to play piano is something that was done in almost every household at one point. In days gone by it showed the gracefulness of a lady and it showed that a gentleman was proficient and profoundly skilled.  Nowadays, many don’t hold it with the same regard but to me, playing the piano is still the same.  Those that know how to play the piano well show me that they have something special and that they have patience as not all can pick it up that quickly.  Hopefully if you wish to learn how to play piano these simple tips can speed the process along. 

First off, try pressing on the piano keys lightly and gently. The anxiety of trying to hit the correct notes all the time may cause stiffness in your fingers which will only make the task a lot more difficult. Try to relax. It is much easier to press the correct notes with a relaxed hand than a rigid one.   Besides, nobody likes the sounds someone makes by clomping their fingers along.

When you first learn to play,  try playing a jingle that you are quite familiar with so that it will be easier going along with. Do not jump into anything too complicated at first, especially songs that require the use of both hands to play. This will only lead to frustration and it is the reason why many beginners quit so soon into their training.  Also, there is just no sense trying to learn on stuff that you’ve never heard before because how will you know it sounds wrong if you don’t know the original tune? 

If you are like me and like playing by ear, that is great!  Not everyone can do that but it really helps me start off with a song.  Yes, there are the notes in front of me but if I know the basic tune I can sometimes pick it up by ear a lot easier.  My fingers just seem to anticipate where the next note is going to be, even if my eyes haven’t quite caught up. You don’t have to become an expert at playing by ear, but if you practice until you can do it a little bit, it will greatly improve your sight reading capabilities!

When you learn how to play the piano you will, at some point in time or another, have to start keeping rhythm.  The trick to doing this well is to choose a small piece of a song, and practicing it over and over again until it is in perfect rhythm, then adding another piece of the song to that. You do this a little bit at a time first, making sure each section is in rhythm.  Before long, you will be able to get more and more notes included in the chords, or you will learn which notes are optional. In most cases nobody but you will realize that there is a note missing.

Learning how to play the piano is a way to open yourself up to all genres of music.  Many who have gone on to do great things with their music generally started with one of two instruments, the piano and the guitar.  In my experience, the piano is easier to learn than the guitar so why not give it a shot?

There are multitudinous websites which declare to teach you to play piano by ear. Does it work? Can you truly prepare to play the piano strictly by ear? This system is somewhat possible, however I consider that this system has its limitations.

Training to play by ear generally means that you need to be able to hear pitch and gage the element of chords with your ear. You would need to be able to distinguish the divergence between major and minor chords, prevalent and diminished etc. Most people do not possess an ear capable of such distinctions and that can lead to problems with this design.

I often cannot tell the particularity between chords. How is someone with no occurrence supposed to do this? Does this mean that my ear isn’t any splendid? Quite the contrary, I have very pleasing relative pitch and can often hear entire chord progressions but often miss the nuances of each specific chord. Therefore an approach which is solely geared to hearing the changes has its limitations.

Another issue with study by ear is that you cannot gain a complete understanding of music just by listening. Music is like a mathematical equation. It has formative structure derived from centuries of musicians and teachers who have dedicated their lives to the understanding a betterment of each specific musical genre. To discount this process and work around it using just your ear is counter productive in my opinion.

For proof, let’s say you’re going to imbibe to play the blues. If you apprentice by ear that would mean you would have to hear not only the paramount seventh chords, then the melody which is derived from the blues scale, the rhythm which comes from structured meter and the re-harmonization of the chord structure all without understanding the words I just said. It would mean you would have to hear all of this without knowing what its called, how it works and how it all comes together. You would master by watching someone else play the piano, copy it and repeat it until it sounds the same as what you just hear.

Not only is this a completely inefficient way of grasping it is highly confined because you cannot gain an understanding of what it is you’re actually doing. Only until you are able to comprehend and dissect each specific aspect of the music can you fully welcome and matriculate from it.

In my humblest opinion, it’s highly productive to imbibe how music is formulated rather than just hearing it and trying to repeat it because you can stretch the boundaries of comprehending and be able to move your playing to another level. Even if you were able to copy certain aspects of learning to play by ear that would severely limit you from moving beyond that point because you easily cannot understand what it is you’re doing.

What is a finer way to learn? Choosing a teacher or online piano lessons that can a helping hand you build a strong foundation. Please pick a course that helps you with the basic understanding of how music works. At this moment you can use your ear to strengthen your understanding because the ear can converse with the mind and come to a consensus of how and why things sound the way they do.

A basic understanding of how chords and scales are made and use that counsel to formulate melody and structure. Your ear can support this process obviously but it’s the scales and chords that produce the building blocks of true musical understanding.

It’s not enough to know how to play a simple F, G, C progression with melody. You need to know why and how this progression works and why it sounds the way it does. Then and only then can you begin to build on that foundation by prepareing richer chords, re-harmonization and deeper complicated melodies.