Easy Piano Lessons

Here is another great way to learn piano, with Pianoforall.

Would you like to just sit down at a piano and just play music you like such as Pop, Blues, Jazz, Ragtime, Ballads, even Classical pieces? Well you can and you can do it in months not years and without having to spend lots of money, time and effort on traditional Piano Lessons.

The Pianoforall Process is simple..

You start with Popular Chord based Rhythm Style Piano (think of artists like Elton John, Billy Joel, Lennon & McCartney, Barry Mannilow, Lionel Ritchie, Coldplay, Norah Jones and so on) which is EASY but sounds amazingly like the ‘real thing’. This enables you to achieve a professional sound almost immediately. Once you are sounding great and having a whole lot of fun (which motivates you to learn more) you then expand step-by-step on your chord and rhythm knowledge into Blues, Ballad style, Jazz, Ragtime, Improvisation and yes.. even Sight Reading Classical music

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By Edward Weiss

When you are first being taught to play the piano it is important to let you know which finger on which hand should play a note on the keyboard. That is why the standard way to explain this is to number your thumbs and fingers, the thumbs are number one the next finger is number 2 thought to each of the little fingers being number 5.

So if I wanted you play a key with the index finger on your Right Hand I would say R.H 2, if I wanted you to use the little finger on your Left Hand I would say L.H 5.

Now put both your hands on the keyboard so that the thumb and fingers of each hand are over or just resting on five adjacent white keys, you hands need not be together in fact they might be separated slightly. Don’t worry about which white keys you fingers are on just that they are on five adjacent white keys.

You can now try these easy piano lessons exercises

Play with both hands at the same time and repeat the following an number of time
RH: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2
LH: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2

Try putting your hands in different starting positions and see how that sounds, hopefully you will notice sometimes it sounds good and sometimes it sounds bad. If you think it sounds bad just move one of your hands to the left or right by one key position and try again, if it is still no good move your hand again.

Now try playing the following with both hands at the same time and repeat it a number of times
RH:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2
LH:  5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4

Again if it doesn’t sound right try putting your hands in different starting positions and see how that sounds.

Well that was another easy piano lesson that I hope you found useful. Don’t forget there is a full course of easy piano lessons you can download.

When learning the piano like any instrument, practice makes perfect. So the more you practice the more quickly you will see improvement and the better your piano playing will become. The most important thing to remember is to have fun and enjoy your piano playing.

So what is the best way to practice piano? The following lists the steps you should try and follow when you practice the piano:-

Step 1 – Try and play every day. This will improve your playing a lot more than just practicing once a week.

Step 2 – Before you start playing flex your fingers to make them supple.

Step 3 – Make sure you hands are warm if they are cold.

Step 4 – Practice at a time when you will be alone. Having other people listen while you are learning to play can discouraging if they make unwelcome remarks.

Step 5 – Don’t rush your playing, start by playing everything slowly. Later on when you can play the piece evenly and smoothly all the way through, you can start to gradually increase the speed until you reach the right speed. It will be much harder for you if you start out too fast.

Step 6 – Each week try to learn a new piece of music. Don’t worry if you are not getting everything right the first few times you try, just keep practicing.

Step 7 – Its difficult but try and be patient. Its best to make sure you can play every piece smoothly before you go on to the next tune.

Step 8 – If there is a particular part you have a problem with, practice that part on its own until you can play it correctly, then go back and try playing the whole piece all the way through.

Step 9 – When playing try and keep your eyes on the music, not on your hands or the keyboard.

Step 10 – Keep refining your playing, by correcting mistakes before they become bad habits.

Step 11 – Make sure you play some music you really know and enjoy.

Step 12 – Make sure you are having fun playing the piano and it is not becoming a chore.

So what are you waiting for get practicing and if you haven’t already done so the click the following to get yourself some Easy Piano Lessons .

Learning piano for beginners can be a frustrating thing particularly if they have seen someone playing the piano and thought, how do they do that and make it look so easy? Well it can be easy if you use the correct piano techniques.

You might thing that great piano technique comes from building speed, or finger strength or independence of finger control. Or perhaps you thing they must have done hours and hours of gruelling scales practice. In these ways the piano for beginners can seem a daunting instrument to master.

The truth is great technique comes from the coordination of fingers, hands, arms and body, along with how your body and piano work together.

If you play the wrong way then you will find it harder than it needs to be and you will become frustrated with your progress. But studying the right way; rather than just practise, will result in you making quicker progress and enjoy what you are doing.

You must learn how to sit at your piano so that you do not have tension in your head, shoulders, arm and hands. If for example your shoulders start aching after playing for just a short period, then tension has built up because you are not sitting at you piano correctly.

When sitting at the piano the first rule of correct posture is to keep your back straight. Keep your head up in a comfortable position. Make sure your sheet music is in a position so you can read it with your head in its comfortable position.

Keep your shoulders and arms loose and relaxed. Your lower arms should be parallel with the height of the keys. There must be enough distance between your chair and the piano so that you can reach the pedals and keys comfortably.

The hands should be poised and free above the keys ready to play.

So remember learning piano for beginners is about having a great technique, which comes from the coordination of your body and how your body and piano work together.

For more information on playing the piano correctly, check out the easy piano lessons.