Piano lessons for adults

Everyone can compose sheet music! You have to start where you are and anyone can do that. You can create your own compositions for piano! Let’s see why you should!
Where can you start?
Maybe you find it difficult to notate sheet music. Well, you don’t have to notate your music. You can record the things you do with a digital recording equipment, maybe your computer or a tape recorder.
But if you want to use sheet music? What can you do?
Let me suggest that you start by writing for piano beginners. Sheet music for piano beginners have to be very simple. Few notes and very easy rhythms. This is the place where you fit in!
If you start to write piano sheet music for beginners in progressive order you will also learn to write sheet music in progressive order. Smart idea, isn’t it!
But…, what benefits are there in writing and composing piano sheet music for your own piano playing?
Here are some of my own thoughts:
1. You own endeavors to create piano compositions will make you more aware of other composers music. Questions will arise in your mind on how to notate the things in your mind and how to arrange and so on. These questions will be in your mind and make you more aware of how other composers have written and notated their music.
You will probably look at other composers musical notation with fresh eyes trying to learn how professional composers write.
2. As you compose you will become more and more sensitive to intrinsic musical subtleties in your own music as well as in other composers music.
3. Gradually you will start to think and feel more like a composer. This will help you become a better performer as well. You will respect other composers music more, trying to convey their hearts intent to your public.
4. As you train your creative muscles by composing they will also help you as you perform piano music. Both performing and composing are creative processes requiring your heart.
5. You will become a better sight reader by composing piano sheet music. Many years ago I had an assignment to write sheet music to a musical. I encountered not a few notational problems. Problems I had not as yet solved for myself.
Afterwards I started to play piano sheet music again. To my astonishment I realized I had developed as a sight reader.
My own conclusion was that my concentrated efforts to notate my piano compositions also was a course in sight reading.
I realized I had experienced a reversed sight reading exercise by composing music with my fingers on the piano keyboard and then trying to notate the music on manuscript paper.
Do you have to buy manuscript paper?
Well, no! To notate sheet music does not need to be expensive. You can use an ordinary pencil and ordinary white paper. Sometimes I use this equipment when I have nothing else at hand. I write five lines, one bar at a time, as I compose. It works!
The musical ideas I jot down this way I can easily work more with in my notational software program on my computer later on.
To compose and write piano sheet music can be a part of your daily piano practice. Spending half an hour with piano composing, making your own piano exercices and more can increase your awareness of music and help you become a better pianist and musician.

Not all people are born with musical talent. It is a time gift and heart given by God. Many persons actually start on how to learn musical instrument during their childhood and tend to give up when things become tough.
Upon realization of what they have regret, most of them, once again have the passion to try. But most of their ability and skills to learn is not as sharp when they are young, for young minds are fresher and more vibrant appetite for learning. These are some that they have lost.
If you have decided to learn piano, you must be careful with the materials you are going to choose from. Some reference is likely to frustrate you and others tend to be a real help. This is a matter of make of break situation. There are sites that offers learning materials designed to outsource musicians to become an astounding piano player.
Not all methods that are applicable to others may be applicable to you. You should consider choosing program or lessons you are at ease with. You must not loose your level of enthusiast and motivation, for it is a major factor for you to learn the piano. Playing piano is a form of art. So never get loose of your track. Playing piano is not a race, so don’t rush for it. It takes time. There are guides that are available on line to further increase you learning ability.
Play with passion. Do not exaggerate the piece. Always keep in mind that you must know your limitation. Always play with intense, do not over or under estimate you capabilities. Learn things in the best way applicable to you. You may resort to listening to the tune and thereafter try to do it your self. Read books or watch video tutorials, never be sucked by promises and offers.
There are some certain techniques or formulae in order to learn fast in effective way. It is what they call 10-24-7 formulae. Think of it, what does it trying to imply. Well, it’s simply means that 10 represent the amount of effort, others call it a perfect 10. You must give your 100% energy, but learn one thing at a time. Never over work your self, this may lead you to stress and you might loose the passion you have.
Once you have played the piece, you have to repeat it once a day. It requires thorough practice. Don’t stop unless you have mastered the lesson and refrain from skipping to other lesson without having perfection. Just focus on one at a time. Finally to complete the formulae, after 7 days, you may proceed to the next lesson. Follow this formula and you will be a good performer in no time. Practice and discipline is a must.
The experts call this method the “accelerated learning” and this is widely used among professional. They usually present this even during seminars because it is proven and tested approach. If you are beginner, just follow this procedure and you will be a good pianist. And it will happen! But you must have the intensity to learn.

Can your practice to become a better performer? What then can be practiced? Let us see what you can do to feel at ease when someone asks you to play the piano!
How to practice performing
In order to learn to play the piano in front of an audience it is a good thing to practice the different aspects of making a successful piano performance. A piano performance consists of playing a piece of music in a musical way without mistakes, and if mistakes occur to minimize the effects of these mistakes. It also concists of meeting an audience and enjoying the experience of seeing real people looking at you and hearing you play.
1. A musical performance. In order to perform a piece of piano music in a musical way it is a good thing to practice this way in the initial steps of the learning process. Probably you will need to practice a difficult piano piece step by step. Let all these musical passages be played and repeated the same musical way you want them to be performed once you have mastered the piano piece.
2. Avoiding mistakes. Of course you want to play the music you practice without mistakes when you will end up playing in front of an audience. I strongly urge you to play the passages of the musical piece you practice with much concentration, focusing on small segments of the piece at a time and very slowly at first avoiding to make mistakes. The more mistakes you make as you practice a piece of music, the more mistakes you tend to make as you perform.
3. Minimize the effects of a mistake. In order to feel confident once you are on stage you need to know that you can handle a mistake. This makes for another way of practicing that is aimed at making you prepared to perform. This way of practicing consists of playing a piece of music from beginning to end as you would perform it in front of an audience. This could be a good way to end a practice session as you play throught the passages you have mastered.
4. Practice performing. In order to minimize stage fright and feeling inadequate when it comes to the actual performance in front of an audience you can do much to simulate the various aspects of a piano performance. If you know how to handle the steps of a performance beforehand you can better concentrate on making a musical performance.
If you do not want to involve too many people you can anyway practice the art of performing in the comfort of your own home. You might as well enter the room where you are going to play your piano the way you would enter a stage in front of an audience thinking about your facial expressions and your relaxation. Practice the way you will react seeing the people, hearing the applauses and cheerings. Learn to relax, smile, bow in front of the public and sit down at the piano and then concentrate completely on giving the audience a great musical experience.
As you start to play the piece of music, try to focus entirely on creating great music. If you make a mistake, try to keep up the tempo and play on with no facial expression revealing the mistake and enforcing the effects of it. You could play for an audience consisting of one person, a teddy bear or some sort of recording equipment to create an inspiring and a challenging environment. As you have completed your performance you can practice meeting the audience, smiling, bowing, showing gratitude for their reactions and finally leave the room in a appropriate manner.
The important thing with these exercises is that you can simulate the actual situation of playing in front of real people and have a feeling that you know how to react to the challenge of meeting real people.

Performing your piano music can actually be a great way to develop as a pianist. By uplifting others by your music you will at the same time make your practice sessions more effective! You will also allow yourself to play at your peak level!
Many pianists will experience this scenario:
Somebody comes to you at a party or at some other occasion with a lot of people, knowing that you are a pianist, asking you to play something nice for the people around. At this point you feel uncomfortable because you do not have anything to play or the music you possibly could have played will not show you at your peak level. This does not mean that you are a poor player. It just means that you at the present time do not have anything you feel proud to play for other people.
At this point you will excuse yourself and say that you maybe will play some other time. At the same time you feel bad because you actually could have contributed to the party if you only had focused on performing as you practiced at home.
You maybe have practiced on many various things, using scales, chords, messing around on the piano and playing pieces you have practiced before. But, you forgot to actually focus on the people out there waiting for your music to be heard.
The problem is as follows:
1. Nothing to play when people want to hear you play.
2. You are losing motivation to practice because you never use what you practice among people.
3. Your piano practice sessions are unfocused as you do not know what to practice and how to use what you learn.
One solution is to focus your piano practicing sessions on a repertoire with piano music you yourself like to play and see to it that you always are prepared to play at your peak level. Seeing that other people are actually enjoying your playing will increase your motivation to practice and help you master your musical homework.
Let us see what you can do:
1. Building a repertoire. Decide which ones of the piano pieces you have practiced that deserve to be included in your piano repertoire of piano music that you will take time to keep fresh by regular practice and repetition. I think it is not wrong to be a bit affable in this area. Try to include the piano pieces that many people want to hear and learn to play them the way they should be played, that is, correctly and in a musical way. Do not think it is like playing to the gallery as long as you have decided that the music is worth listening to and that you play the music with feeling and concentration.
2. Compose a program with piano music that you will play if someone asks you to play. This program can consist of three pieces of music or more that you want to focus on. Pieces you know people usually enjoy listening to and that you enjoy playing. You can start this program with a piece of music that do not put too much demand on your finger dexterity as you will not have time to practice warm up exercises if someone asks you to play. This way of creating a program is in line with the slogan to always be prepared.
It is a satisfying feeling to really be prepared to play when someone asks you and also knowing that you can play something that you have practiced well enough to be able to play at the top of your ability. Peoples opinion of you as a pianist will be more positive as they only will hear you play like any serious artist would, the things you know you have mastered.
3. As you practice these pieces of piano music you will undoubtly come across musical passages that are so difficult to play that you need to make a decision. Either you will skip this piece of music entirely for the time being and choose a piece of music that are at your present technical level or else you have to work on your technique in order to play the music correctly.
In this case you have to focus on the exact problem you have with the musical passage and decide which area of your technique that has to be improved in order for you to play the passage correctly and with confidence. This way of practicing technical exercises will feel meaningful as they are connected with your repertoire. You know why you use these exercices and you will be able to measure the effectiveness of them by the way they help you improve the performance of the musical passages that motivated you to use these exercises and work on your technique in the first place.

How can you create and keep your motivation to play the piano? In other words, how can you increase and keep the joy of playing the piano? The cause that made you start playing in the first place!

1. Before setting goals

Sometimes the reason why we don’t keep our piano playing goals is that we haven’t been honest with ourselves when we set the goals. Before setting the your goals you have to decide why you want to play piano. Make an honest survey of your assets and wishes in the area of piano playing.

2. Setting goals

In order to set goals that you will actually work towards you have to be honest with yourself. Do I really want to accomplish these goals. Will I really feel good when I reach my goals?

3. Having a repertoire

One common reason for starting to play the piano is to be able to play the pieces of music you like. This means that as you learn to play piano, a goal might be to learn a number of piano pieces, let’s say five melodies, by heart so you can play them in any setting.

These five pieces of piano music is to be learned so well that you don’t have to worry if you are asked to play.

One reason for having a repertoire with piano pieces throughoutly rehearsed is that you can feel that you perform at the top of your ability.

4. Always perform

One great way to create motivation to practice on your piano is to always perform in front of other people in different ways. A way to creating momentum to practise your piano repertoire is to set up an informal concert with a couple of pieces in the setting of your own home.

Your family will be your public. There are many occasions for having someone performing music in the home and maybe you will stimulate others in your family or among your friends to play on their instruments in such a setting. Of course you have to plan ahead in order to suggest a performance and in order to prepare yourself.

5. But if you don’t like to perform?

You can actually practice the art of performing on your piano without people present. One way is to use your imagination and pretend that you perform in front of others. If you want to help your imagination a bit you can put empty chairs in front of you representing the audience.

On such an occasion you have to exercise self discipline and play those pieces in your actual program from beginning to end. If you would make a mistake in front of a public, what would you do? Probably you would want to minimize the effect of this mistake and just play on. This is what you have to practice even in this setting.

This will create self confidence in your ability to handle mistakes and will also help you find weaknesses you can improve upon in your playing.

This is also an excellent time to record your performance for later evaluation. The act of recording is like having a critic in the public.

6. Listen to piano music

You have to look upwards in order to climb to a higher level in your piano playing and this will be accomplished by listening to piano players on an higher artistic level than yourself.

At last a piano playing qoute from an unknown author:

“One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.”

Let me give you some easy progressions that will help you in your improvisational piano playing!
What is a progression?
A progression is a set of chords played consecutively. Generally, successive chords in a chord progression share some notes, which provides harmonic and linear continuity to a passage.
What is a II-V-I progression?
Is is a chord progression with three chords built on the roots of the second, fifth and first note of a key.
The three roman numerals correspond to the digits 2, 5 and 1. In it’s most basic form the numbers indicate the root of a triad. For example, the roman number I in C-major means a triad built from the note C. This triad consists of the notes C, E and G.
The Roman numeral II in the key of C-major tells you to play a triad built from the notes in the C-major scale beginning with the second note. The notes will be D, F and A.
The Roman numeral V indicates a triad built from the fifth step on the C-scale. The fifth note in the C-scale is G so the triad will include the notes G, B and D.
Piano tab notation
In order to demonstrate the chords I will use a notation suitable for articles sites. First we will look at the middle C. The note C on the middle of the piano keyboard, sometimes near the key hole of some pianos is called C4.
The number 4 indicates that it is the C on the fourth octave of the piano. Of course, there are piano keyboards with less keys and less octaves. In this case you have to think of C4 as middle C and nothing else.
Our first piano chord progression
We will start out by playing a progression with the triad chords built on the second, fifth and the first note of the C scale.
LH: D3 RH: D4 F4 A4 (Dm)
LH: G3 RH: G4 B4 D5 (G major)
LH: C3 RH: C4 E4 G4 (C major)
As you might guess LH means left hand and in the Dm chord D3 indicates that you play the note D3 on your piano or keyboard with your left hand at the same time as you play the right hand notes.
This II-V-I progression in C major is a little bit clumsy. You have to move your fingers a little to much in order to play the chords. We will adjust the G major chord a bit and play the progression in the following manner:
LH: D3 RH: D4 F4 A4 (Dm)
LH: G3 RH: B3 D4 G4 (G major)
LH: C3 RH: C4 E4 G4 (C major)
To make smooth transitions between the piano chords in the II-V-I progression you can change the chords even more. Let’s change the Dm chord to Dm11 and G major to G7.
LH: D3 RH: C4 F4 G4 (Dm11)
LH: G3 RH: B3 F4 G4 (G7)
LH: C3 RH: C4 E4 G4 (C major)
We might as well change the C major chord to Cmaj7 in order to make the changes smoother.
LH: D3 RH: C4 F4 G4 (Dm11)
LH: G3 RH: B3 F4 G4 (G7)
LH: C3 RH: B3 E4 G4 (Cmaj7)
Finally we will introduce a substitute chord for G. Acually a so called tritone substitution.
This means that instead of a G chord we will use a chord with the root a tritone interval from G, that is three whole steps. Instead of G we will play Db+11.
LH: D3 RH: C4 F4 G4 (Dm11)
LH: Db3 RH: B3 F4 G4 (Db+11)
LH: C3 RH: B3 E4 G4 (Cmaj7)
This will make the chord changes even smoother, especially the bass notes, and maybe more interesting. You can use this formula, which in the key of C means to play Dm, G7 and C, to find many interesting variations on this theme.
It will be a great help for you in piano improvisation to have a working knowledge of the II-V-I progression with variations in different keys because this progression is used in a wide variety of music genres.

Do you feel that you progress as a pianist? The feeling that you become better as time goes by gives you incentive to keep on practicing. In order for you to succeed in your endeavors, let us take a look at your practicing habits!
As you practice on your piano there are things that will lead you towards your goal to become a better pianist. Let us first take a look at things that can hinder your progression:
1. You do not have a clear picture of what type of pianist you want to become. This will make it difficult to choose the right exercises that will help you progress. If you do not know your goals you will not be able to prioritize between the many things you could practice.
2. You are not practicing your homework long enough to commit the skills to your long-term memory. You might find it interesting to browse through piano sheet music and play a few notes here and there. This might help your sight reading skills but you will not progress as a pianist and musician.
3. You practice too difficult things! If you practice things above your level of proficiency you might hinder your progression towards a good pianist and performer. It is good to have accomplished pianists as models of what you can become but you are not there yet!
4. Your hand posture is preventing your progress. Bad hand and body posture makes it difficult to play demanding piano pieces with smoothness and in a musical way.
5. You play your exercises at a tempo that is above your technical skills. This is understandable since every pianist wants to hear how things they practice are supposed to sound at the final stages of repetition. However, playing too fast will hinder your progression!
6. You practice but forget that all is about music. Without music in mind and heart you will probably lose interest in playing sooner or later.
7. You do not have any piano pieces to play to your friends. All you have done is practicing exercises and fragments from piano solos. You have never learned to play a melody perfectly from beginning to end.
Let us take a look at how you can eliminate these obstacles and make your piano practicing sessions more effective and maybe even shorter and more joyful:
1. Give yourself time to think a lot about your piano playing. Why you play, what things you like about playing the piano, what type of pianist you want to become and your weaknesses that right now hinder you from becoming what you want to be. Write down some goals and use them as a guide when you decide what to practice.
This will also make it easier to evaluate how well you progress as a pianist. Your goals help to see if you are on the right road. As time goes by your vision of what you want to become will be clearer and your goals will be more and more perfected!
2. When you have choosen exercises and piano pieces to play that will lead you towards your goals I suggest that you practice them long enought to really learn the skills involved. These skills will become building blocks that will help you learn more difficult exercises later on. An absolute condition for this to happen is that you commit your present homework to your long-term memory.
3. Be careful to select exercises and piano pieces that are not too much above your technical skills. Too difficult exercises will be boring as you have to play them in a very slow tempo and they will take a very long time to master and you might as a result actually lose interest in playing piano.
4. Correct hand posture guarantees that you will use your energy in the most effective way and that you will not cause yourself muscle injuries. Correct hand and body posture will make your playing a pleasant experience as you will be able to play with minimal muscle tension.
5. The most effective way to learn new things on the piano is to practice slowly. This will resque you from making a lot of mistakes that can grow into negative habits that will hinder your progression. Practicing slowly will also help you play as relaxed as possible. Practice a piece of music in a relaxed and enjoyable way and this will be the way you perform it!
6. In order to develop as a musician you will benefit from listening to music performed with heart and musical depth. In the long run you will become a much better pianist if you devote some of your time to assimilate musical expressions and manifestations from good musicians.
7. To have a number of well rehearsed piano pieces in your repertoire is very rewarding for yourself and enjoyable to your listeners as you can play them to the best of your ability. Memorizing pieces of music should be a significant part of your practicing schedule. If someone asks you to play you know that you can play piano pieces you are proud of sharing with others!

Piano playing is an art with unlimited possibilites. Pippi Longstocking made a remark in a film that can be used when you try to learn to play piano.

Pippi Longstocking is a nine-year-old Swedish girl in a series of children’s books. Pippi has red braids and is very unconventional, assertive, extraordinarily strong, and rich. She lives alone with a monkey and a horse in an old funny house. Her friends Tommy and Annika accompany her on her wild adventures.

One Christmas when she was alone in the house looking out through the window feeling lonesome her lyoung friends and the children from town came in a procession to her house surprising her with a Christmas present.

She was very happy when she saw them and when she opened the present she found a trumpet and immediately started to play on it.

One of the children commented: “I did’nt know that you played trumpet!”. Pippi answered smilingly: “Well, it is easier when you have a trumpet!”

Much wisdom there. It is easier to learn to play an instrument if you have an instrument. It is easier to learn to play piano if you have a piano. Do you have a piano?

What does it mean to have a piano. Let me explain………..

One of my cousins lived with her family in a small town in a small house. In the house was a tall black piano bought from a nearby amusement park. This piano was fascinating in one aspect.

It was fantastically out of tune!

When you played a melody on the piano it was like playing in different keys at the same time. My cousin living there never became a pianist. I don’t know if the out of tune piano put her off but it sure didn’t help her.

She learned one funny piano song at least and I can still remember the sound of it on that piano.

I think that you can say that a piano has to be tuned or it isn’t really a piano. All those beautiful and fantastic piano compositions are intended to be played on a tuned instrument.

I would suggest the following….

1. Have a piano. Meaning a tuned instrument. Make it a priority to have your piano tuned by a piano tuner or if you are adventurous, try to tune it yourself! Read about piano tuning on the net.

2. Buy a digital piano. It is always in tune but has other small disadvantages. It should have weighted key action to imitate the action of an acoustic piano.

When I was a child we always had our piano in tune but I guess it is quite common to find pianos that is out of tune around the globe.

I guess you can get used to playing on out of tune pianos but this will limit your progress and the joy you deserve to experience when you play piano.

I know classical piano players who are very good at reading sheet music. I also know pianists that has a tremendous ability to play by ear. How can you become a classical pianist having a good ear and the ability to play chords and improvising?
I have many times seen that pianists that can read sheet music and sightread very well feel uncomfortable when they are asked to accompany a singer without the aid of sheet music notation.
Personally I have been asked many times to play piano to singers who wants to sing in another key then the one in the sheet music available. This happens because I have developed my ability to play by ear and to change keys on the go.
Of course, someone could transpose the music to a lower key and write it down in order to play sheet music but it is much work involved and often you will not have time to write the music down.
If you are playing popular music it can actually be an advantage to play by ear to get into the right mood and play more musically.
But all this presupposes that you have the ability to play piano by ear and that you can play various styles of music.
I know of some piano players who can’t play a note of sheet music. I guess they have earlier in their life been scared off by sheet music notation or maybe they have seen some pianists playing with accuracy but too mechanically for their taste. Maybe they just think that it is too much hard work involved!
I think that there are some misconceptions pertaining to playing by ear and playing sheet music. Some people think that sightreading pianists have to be bad at playing by ear and that improvising pianists need to be poor sight readers.
Well, the truth is that you will be good at what you practice. If you practice both sightreading and chord playing you will become better and better in these areas.
If you are a classical pianist with the ambition to be able to play by ear you can develop this ability as you practice your repertoire and learn new sheet music. Here are some suggestions:
1. Develop your ability to understand chord theory. This can be done as you practice a piece of sheet music. In classical piano pieces you will find passages with chords that you can investigate and learn a lot from. In the first bars of Fur Elise for example you will find the chords Am and E-major. As you play this piece you will find a lot of common chords intervowen in the music.
To spot chords and scales as you practice a piece of classical music will help you put more intellectual power into the enterprise and will also help you memorize the music better.
2. Learn licks from your piano pieces. When you find passages in the music you play that you like and want to incorporate in your repertoire of licks and phrases to use you can memorize them and play around with them trying to improvise, changing notes here and there and transposing them. Many classical piano pieces are filled with interesting chord progressions and melodic phrases.
3. Playing scales. If you include playing scales in your daily routine practice as a classical pianist you might benefit from also using the material in the scales in developing you sense for melodies, and licks. Play around with the notes, try to create interesting melodies and small licks and using chords as you play. This will help you practice both your finger dexterity and musical abilities.
There are many more things you can do to develope your ear and your sense for chords and improvisation. The important thing is to see possibilities in the classical piano sheet music you play.

As a pianist, can you consider to yourself that you are improving? If you do so, you should be happy about it. Having the thought that you show improvements in your piano lessons will help you get by the tough practice and piano topics. For you to be able to get through it, you need to know the practice habits that will help you along the process of learning.
There are things that will direct you to become a better pianist as you practice. Have a glimpse on this matters that will deter you in your advancement.
1. You don’t foresee yourself as a good pianist in the future. It will make things hard for you to become a better pianist since you don’t know how to select which type of exercises will improve your skills. If your goals are quite unclear, it will be hard to prioritize things during practice sessions.
2. You don’t spend enough time for practice or doing your assignments that will aid you in remembering important topics. Though it is somehow helpful to search for piano sheet music online and play some notes you will not improve as a pianist.
3. You play hard pieces that are beyond your capacity. This will definitely deter you in your learning progress. It is great to have your favorite pianist as a source of inspiration. Just be aware that you are not yet at their level yet and you have a long way to go.
4. It is important to practice proper hand exercises as well as good posture. Having poor hand and body posture can make piano playing hard.
5. You start to play at a tempo that is beyond your skills. It is reasonable because every pianist wants to see certain improvements. On the other hand, it will also deter your progress if you play very quick.
6. You do your practice but you forget the reason of doing it – your love for music. If you do so, you will be losing your interest on the piano not for long.
7. You don’t know how to play the complete piece perfectly. All you do is practice playing bits and pieces of a song. That’s why, when your friends come to listen to your play, you won’t have anything to present to them.
After reading all those things, here are some ways on how you can avoid those hindrances and make practice and rehearsals effectual, fast and even enjoyable:
1. Allow yourself to have more time on thinking about your piano playing. Assess things like why you want to play piano, what do you like most about piano playing, the kind of piano player you want to be, as well as your flaws that deters you on your goals. It is good if you also make a list of your goals one at a time and use them as inspiration in your piano playing.
This will make it simple to assess how well you have improved. The goals will guide you unto the right path. This will make things understandable and will enhance your skills to become a good pianist.
2. If you have selected some piano songs and exercises, make sure that you will spend more time to really master the techniques. It will be of great help in learning future complex pieces that you want to learn. Don’t only memorize, you must know things by heart in order make your knowledge and skills last.
3. Make sure that you choose pieces and exercises that is just right for you, not beyond your capacity. This will make learning boring and it takes a lot of time to master it.
4. Having proper hand exercises and posture will enable you to make the most of your piano practice. You will also avoid muscle straining since you do it correctly. It will make piano playing a very wonderful experience.
5. As we all know, learning the piano takes time so do not be in a hurry. You are not on a race anyway, so just take it slow. If you hurry on things, you might do it in a wrong way and develop bad habits on the piano. Doing your practice slowly but surely will minimize stress and you will be relaxed as you play. You can enjoy playing if you are free from stress.
6. Have the heart in taking time to listen to the pieces being played. Dedicate a bit of your time in digesting all the music language and expressions that you heard from good musicians. Not for long, you will be able to apply it and make your own good music.
7. It is a very good thing to master a lot of musical pieces that you can play in front of your friends and family. Your loved ones are the ones that have given you support on your piano playing activity so it is just right to dedicate it to them. Mastering many music pieces should be an important part of your piano practice.