Achieving mastery of The Piano



by Andy Penbram


Here is some information for any beginner piano player who would like to move onto more advanced piano lessons and truly master the piano or keyboards. This will be a trip from amateurs level passing through intermediate and advanced levels until ultimately arriving at true master piano player level. On this trail there are sadly too many students who never make it past the first most principal beginners level.

The 1st levels of piano or keyboard playing can be grouped into 2 separate kinds, persons who learn to read music and people who learn to play by ear without music. The beginner piano player who learns to read music will at first learn how to find all of the notes on the keyboard and associate them with the written notes on the musical staff. Simple tunes can then be performed by reading the music. The player who learns to play by ear will also learn how to find the notes on the keyboard and might even learn several basic chords at this time too.

With each and every one of the notes learned the beginner can now move onward onto an intermediate phase. This could generally entail learning to play one or two more tricky pieces for the pianist who is studying how to read music. This will entail reading off two staves and playing with both hands at the same time. Essential chord progressions and rhythms using both hands at once is what awaits the scholar who is learning how to play by ear.

At the more advanced levels of playing the music reader will need to learn some fairly hard pieces which will stretch their talents and physically bolster the fingers and the coordination. The scholar who has chosen to play by ear will by this time be playing melodies integrated into the chord progressions. It's going to be very probable that at this level they are going to be able to play most tunes that they hear and to also discover the chords with little effort.

To advance on to master level the two different methods of learning are generally combined. Playing by ear and reading music both come naturally to the true master. Every one of the two methods have their benefits and drawbacks. Numerous players who've learned to read music will become technically especially skilled but might lack expression and emotion. The opposite can be believed for the student who learns how to play only by ear, they'd find it hard to be more technical and will lack the discipline that makes the scholar who has learned how to read music. There should be no problem for the real master to be in a position to read music and play by ear in the same way.

There are numerous home study programs available for download for beginner and intermediate scholars that may help you move onto the more advanced levels of playing. The nice thing about these courses is they have sound and video files so that you can be taught as if you had a piano teacher right there in your home.

Most significant of all however is that almost all the best programs will teach you how to read music and the way to play by ear at the same time. Being taught like this you'll have the foundation to move ahead onto far higher levels and will have the advantages of the 2 techniques of learning direct from the start




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