Friday, August 5, 2011

Achieving mastery of The Piano

By Andy Penbram


Here is some info for any amateur piano player who needs to move onto more advanced piano lessons and actually master the piano or keyboards. This can be a journey from beginners level passing thru intermediate and advanced levels till eventually arriving at true master piano player level. On this path there are unhappily too many scholars who never get past the 1st most principal beginners level.

The 1st levels of piano or keyboard playing can be grouped into 2 separate kinds, people who learn to read music and those 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. Easy tunes can then be performed by reading the music. The player who learns to play by ear will also learn the way to find the notes on the keyboard and might even learn 1 or 2 basic chords at this time as well.

With every one of the notes learned the beginner can now move forward onto an intermediate phase. This can often entail learning to play a few more tough pieces for the pianist who is learning how to read music. This may 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 must learn some reasonably hard pieces that will stretch their abilities and physically strengthen the fingers and the coordination. The student who has selected to play by ear will by this point be playing tunes integrated into the chord progressions. It'll be really likely that at this level they will be able to play most melodies that they hear and to also discover the chords with minimal effort.

To advance on to master level the two different techniques of learning are usually combined. Playing by ear and reading music both come naturally to the true master. Each of the two techniques have their advantages and disadvantages. Countless players who've learned to read music will become technically especially skilled but might lack expression and emotion. The opposite can be assumed for the student who learns how to play only by ear, they would find it difficult 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 able to read music and play by ear in the same way.

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

Most serious of all however is that just about all of the best programs will teach you the easy way to read music and how to play by ear at the same time. Being taught like this you will have the foundation to move ahead onto way higher levels and will have the benefits of the two systems of learning straight from the start




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