Learning to play piano in the comfort of your home is by far the most economical and fun activity for everybody. It is indeed fun to have your children learn piano at home with you as the teacher and spending time together instead of in classrooms.
You dont need a music teacher or go to attend piano classes with your child at a popular music school. There is no pressure and your child will be at ease with you and you can learn through online piano courses which are readily available on the Internet.
Although you have a conducive and relaxing environment at home to learn to play piano, however you need to have to instill discipline in your child because it is easy for your child to get lazy and not follow the lessons when learning to play piano online.
You become both a parent and playing the role of a music teacher.
The bonding you establish with your child because of the time spent together would enhance your communication between you and your child which in turn lays a solid foundation for further development of your children. With music interest covered, you can now focus your efforts on helping your child in other areas such as swimming, guitar, ballet courses or other activities of interest.
Learning piano online is not just for kids. If you are a busy executive and you have tremendous amount of work commitment and a heavy schedule, it would be a big burden to commit to enrol into a music school as it would pose a challenge to attend classroom lessons.
Learning to play piano online would mean that you do not need to have vigorous lessons and spend long hours on the piano practising and learning. You can treat it s a leisure activity and perhaps as a stress reliever spending a couple of hours a day which would equip you with the knowledge and skills your required for playing the piano. You can work during the day and learn to play piano in the evenings after work at your own timing and pacing with absolute flexibility.
In conclusion,learning to play piano at home is fun, easy and very convenient. If you adopt the right attitude and possess the passion for learning piano, then very soon you will be able to realize your dream to play the piano and you will be thrilled with your new found ability.
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In the past, playing the piano is associated with the privileged and the upper class and those who lead the superior lifestyle. A piano is a high priced item and certainly it is not cheap to enrol in piano classes. However with the advent of Internet revolution, people can now engage themselves to play piano online. Gone are the days of expensive pianos which are too big to be moved around by even a few people, the piano which are exorbitant in price and which are very expensive to maintain with this development of piano online courses.
Have you ever been awestruck by the skilful pianist who is able to play the piano and evoke a passionate warm feeling coming out of the piano which words cannot describe ? Piano players are able to develop their spatial cognitive development according to research studies and they tend to do better in subjects such as mathematics and engineering. So learning to play the piano will not only help you to compose good music but also boost your spatial cognitive development.
If you compare the costs of a piano and the fees to engage a piano instructor, it is certainly much cheaper to purchase the piano software and play piano online. You will discover that when you play the piano online, you could reap the same benefits as if you learn to play a regular piano using the keyboards. The costs is so much more economical and affordable.
The coordination between hand and eyes improved for those who play piano online. This is due to the fact that the piano player has to hit the right keys to make the right sound whilst at the same time trying to interpret the musical notes and at times scanning the piano keyboard or the computer keyboard.
There is no restriction for the person who play piano online because he can choose his own timing as to when and where to commence his lessons. He can start in the morning, in the evening or at night. He does not need to schedule lessons with the piano teacher as he is free to choose his own timing which is most convenient to him. If there are other commitments, you can just delay the lessons and if you have more time on hand , you can play as much as you want or desire and master a particular lesson.
You need discipline, dedication, perseverance and focus in order to master learning to play the piano as in any other pursuit. Your progress with your piano lessons will be that much faster once you develop a regular time table for practising. Contrary to traditional piano lessons with piano teacher, you do not need to follow a set scheme of lessons, rather you can play the piano online by going into any modules that you feel that you are comfortable with and it is all a matter of choosing what you want to learn and jumping right in.
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For beginner piano lessons , certain groups of people are fortunate to have spotted their talents as a child. But for others, they never have a chance to discover their talent until adult life when they have finally have the chance to pursue their interests in learning piano.
I must say it is never too late to learn a new skill.
Have you yearn to learn piano but never have the chance to do so? Maybe your parents had the idea that it was a waste of money, or as a child you had no musical inclination.
As you advanced in years and become financially stable, you feel the need to occupy yourself with meaningful and useful activities. If you like musical activities ,then learning to play the piano is a good way to start. There are quite a number of beginner piano lessons targetted at adults who have never played the piano before. Note-reading exercises, chord recognition, basic techniques and much much more are covered in these beginner piano lessons.
Some of you may have learnt piano during your childhood days but stopped for some reasons , perhap due to school work or other work commitments. You could still resume your lessons. Your fingers may not glide down the piano as effortlessly as before but there is hope. You can sign up for beginner piano lessons that also help you as a refresher course.
At first everything will feel strange and unfamiliar to you when you return back to play the piano. However with perseverance and determination and focus, the notes, chords and scales will came back to you. It is similar to learning to ride a bicycle. Once you have learnt it once before, the skill acquired will never be forgotten.
Some adults may feel uncomfortable about attending beginner piano lessons because most of the other students are children. Good news is that there are many online piano lessons tailored for the adult market. There is no concern that you are the eldest student in a class or feel uncomfortable that the piano teacher may treat you differently.
You have the liberty to sign up for beginner piano lessons online. Nobody will know, and the important point is that you will receive sufficient exercises to learn to play piano with ease and peace of mind.
Once you have acquainted yourself with basic piano techniques, you can move on to more advanced lessons. If you engage yourself in online piano courses, then you will be reaping the maximum advantages of being anonymous and having the flexibility of time.
Going back to attend physical piano classes as adults may be stressful and create a sense of tension with all children around. However with the advent of online piano lessons you can learn new piano skills and play the piano without any chance of being ridiculed or mocked at for your age or agility with your fingers.
Once you master your skill at playing the piano, you could have the opportunity to perform at family gatherings much to the surprise of your relatives and friends. Age is not an obstacle to learning new skills. With the right online piano course and having the motivation, you can pick up any skill and pursue your interest despite being a late bloomer.
Rocket Piano is the BEST online piano course on the market which will help you in your quest to learn or re-learn new skills in playing piano.
Rocket Piano courses range from beginners piano lessons to intermediate and advanced. The package is the most complete and has a fresh approach to piano playing. There is something in Rocket Piano online course for very piano player, regardless of ability. And at the current cost, it really is worth every dollar spent!
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Hello Friends,
I would like to share with you that to learn play piano is actually easy if you receive the right instructions. To learn how to play piano you need to read this article which shows you 4 fundamental goals you need to achieve to master the basics of piano playing. You can learn more about playing piano by enrolling in the best online course and learn how to play the piano and save hundreds of dollars.
Just like in any sports , for instance golf, the legendary Tiger Woods is able to master golf because of the mastery of the mental game and psychology of winning. Similarly, you need to have the right mind-set and to allocate time to practice playing the piano with your new found techniques.
Practice time is a personal choice but do yourself a favour and allocate specific times to practice sessions to learn play piano everyday. You have to practice more intensively at first. Practise at least 45 minutes every day initially until you improve.
This short lesson needs some degree of participation and practice from you so that you will be able to achieve the following by the end of the tutorial.
1. Playing notes on the piano keyboard.
2. Playing a few simple songs
3. Playing your ‘major’ scale in the Key of C
4. Be Able to differentiate the notes on a piano keyboard!
Let us commence our first lesson without further ado.
The above diagram shows a piano keyboard with the NOTES written on each key.
Let me explain to you step by step. There are basically only 12 notes in the piano and they sort of repeat themselves over and over again in what we assigned as ‘Octaves’ pronounced as [Octives]. An Octave actually has reference to the number 8 (Oct. as in Octagon)
Musical Notes are identified by the letters of the alphabet. The letters in musical notes are A, B, C, D, E, F, G. There is NO ‘H’. After ‘G’ it simply starts over again at ‘A’ (see above diagram). How is it possible to have more than one ‘A’? Although the TONE of the note may sound the same, however the ‘pitch’ can be higher or lower. There are many ‘A’s’ on the piano as well as many of the other letters . The lowest ‘A’ will sound extremely low like a Bass and will not be very distinguishable. The highest ‘A’ will sound very high pitched like a flute or a piccolo. The best example of an Octave would be found in the song ‘Happy Birthday.’ The part in the middle where you sing “Happy BIRTH-day to someone …” the word ‘Happy’ let’s say is a ‘C’ note, the next word ‘BIRTH’ would also be a ‘C’ note but one octave above the ‘C’ that you sang for the word ‘Happy’. It’s a big stretch, a whole 8 notes! So it’s 8 notes from ‘A’ to ‘A’ and ‘C’ to ‘C’ and so on. Thus, it’s called an ‘Octave’.
Let us now go back to my original teaching . Did you remember what I emphasized previously? That there are ONLY 12 notes in musical piano! This makes music so much easier than you imagine! EVERY SONG YOU’VE EVER HEARD WAS MADE UP OF A COMBINATION OF THESE 12 NOTES. No matter how complicated even in great composer Mozart’s song , there are only 12 notes present in the composition of the musical song.
A, A#, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G# and then back to ‘A’.
The Black Keys are in sets of 2 and 3. I call them ‘twins’ and ‘triplets’.
At the beginning (the left) of the ‘Twins’ is the note ‘C’. At the beginning of the ‘triplets’ is the note ‘F’. The twins and triplets repeat themselves over and over again and the note at the beginning of them will always be the same. In front of every pair of twins will be ‘C’ ALWAYS. This will help you to remember the order of the notes , without having the notes written on each key!
What do the ‘#’ signs mean?! The # sign stands for “Sharp”.
So if you see ‘A#’ that means “ ‘A’ Sharp.” C# = C sharp and so on.
The Sharps (#’s) are the black keys. The very next key to the RIGHT of any given key is the ‘Sharp’ of that note.
On the piano, the distance between any note to the very next note (whether the next note is a black key OR white) is called a ‘half-step’. So from ‘A’ to ‘A#’ is a half step. From ‘A#’ to ‘B’ is also a half step. NOW NOTICE ‘B’ and ‘C’. There are no sharps in between them but they are still considered a ‘Half-Step’. This is very important concept to understand because the majority of people thought that if they go a ‘half-step’ from one letter, the next note will be that letter’s ‘Sharp’. This is true for MOST notes with the exception for ‘B to C’ and ‘E to F’. If you look at the piano keyboard diagram above you’ll see that E goes right to F and they are both white keys and the same for B to C. These are STILL HALF-STEPS. There is no ‘B#’ because ‘B#’ would just be called ‘C’. An ‘E#’ would just be called ‘F’. These are the TWO exceptions you need to remember.
Hence, if you skip a half-step and go directly from let’s say, ‘A’ to ‘B’, it is called a Whole Step. Remember those exceptions now! The difference is that going from ‘B’ to ‘C’ is NOT considered a whole step. Remember, from ‘B’ to ‘C’, it is a HALF-STEP mainly they are right next to each other. So from ‘B’ to ‘C#’ would be a WHOLE-STEP. Same goes for ‘E’ to ‘F’ (half step). From ‘E’ to ‘F#’ would be the WHOLE STEP.
The reason why most people make this error is because from every other white key to the next white key is considered a WHOLE STEP. (Reason being that there is a black key in between which is the half step).
The NEXT IMPORTANT CONCEPT IS ‘C’ MAJOR SCALE !
This is a very important fundamental element of music. This ‘Scale’ makes up the sounds ‘Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do.’ It’s called the ‘Major Scale’ and it is one of the MAIN modes of music. There are ‘major’ and ‘minor’ scales. The ‘major’ scale depicts a happier tone while the ‘minor’ scales portrays a sadder event.
Every song you’ve ever heard in your life before has to be either a ‘major’ or ‘minor’ key.
Next, so your RIGHT hand is numbered as follows…Your thumb is finger number 1, index finger is number 2 , middle finger is number 3, ring finger number 4, and pinky finger number 5.
Your LEFT hand is the same. Thumb is finger number one, and so on.
They go opposite ways but the thumb is still number 1 and so on.
Let us learn the scale with our RIGHT hand first. The right hand is the lead hand in the piano and plays the important lead melodies of a song.
The left hand is an accompaniment and plays chords and bass lines.
So the ‘C Major Scale’ is as Follows:
C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C
Moving from LEFT to RIGHT. Finger number One will play the first ‘C’.
Then finger number 2 plays ‘D’ followed by Finger #3 which plays ‘E’.
NOW PAY ATTENTION: On the FOURTH Note which is ‘F’, you will cross your thumb underneath your middle finger (finger #3) and play the ‘F’ with your THUMB! This allows you to finish the rest of the scale with the rest of your hand. Fingers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. So, in case this was confusing, the fingering for C. D. E, F, G, A, B, C would be fingers: 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
After the third note; ‘E’ you CROSS your thumb UNDERNEATH your middle finger (which is still on ‘E’) and play the next note to the right of ‘E’ which is ‘F’ with your Thumb.
Now, when you come back down the scale…(to the left) you play every note that you played on the way up the scale AND with the SAME fingers.
So, the scale would be C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, B, A, G, F, E, D, C.
Fingers are: 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1.
The Bold letters and numbers are going ‘up’ the scale which is left to right. Then on the way back ‘down’ the scale, (not bold) it is right to left.
‘Up’ refers to UP IN PITCH. and ‘Down’ refers to DOWN IN PITCH.
When you play notes from left to right you will always be going UP in pitch from a LOW sound all the way on the left, it gets higher and higher as you move to the right and all the way on the right is the HIGHEST pitched note. Hence , when you play to the right you are going ‘up’.
The video that I included once you subscribed in will show you what the ‘C Major Scale’ looks and sounds like! I play it slow at first, then medium, then fast.
That’s just the ‘C’ Major scale. There is a Major scale for EVERY key.
There is an ‘A Major Scale’ a ‘B Major Scale, even for the #’s. ‘A# Major Scale, starts on a black key ‘A#’).
They ALL sound like ‘Do-Re-Mi…’ but they just start on a different pitch.
But you dont have to worry, I POSSESS A SECRET WEAPON which I will share with you ! There are a lot of step by step methods to help you to master to learn to play the piano when you enrol in the online course called “Rocket Piano”.
Well, everyone loves the ‘C Major Scale’ because it is ALL white keys.
Every other scale has a black key in it, whether it’s one, two, three or more!. Instead of memorizing EACH of the 12 Major Scales which would take a lot of time, you can use my secret formula that will allow you to play any major scale based on a pattern. Anything you can do in one spot on the piano, you can do in Whole Steps and Half Steps which you will recall I talked about earlier on.
Well, if you look at the ‘C’ major scale you can see that the pattern is as such:
After the starting ‘C’, the next note is ‘D’. The distance between these notes is a Whole Step.(because you skip over C# and go to D) Lets call a Whole Step ‘W’ and a Half Step ‘H’. The pattern of the C Major scale is W, W, H, W, W, W, H. Pretty easy to remember if you see the pattern: two whole steps and then a half step followed by three whole steps and a half step. This holds true for EVERY MAJOR SCALE!!! WOW . This pattern once you recognize it makes the whole sequence so much EASIER and to remember !
Let’s test this out…The next Major Scale, the ‘D Major Scale’ would be
D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D.
This obeys the rule! After the first note ‘D’ it follows the pattern:
W, W, H, W, W, W, H.
<D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#, D
1st W, W, H, W, W, W, H.
The first note can not be a whole step or a half step because you need to reference the distance between TWO notes to have a whole step or a half step.
Check out the video to see how the ‘C Major Scale’ looks and sounds!
This scale is so important because EVERY song that is in a ‘Major’ key will be made up of ONLY THE NOTES OF THE MAJOR SCALE. So, if the song is in ‘C Major’ in which THOUSANDS of songs are…the song would consist of ONLY THE NOTES OF THE C MAJOR SCALE!
For Example:
In the song, ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ it is in the key of ‘C Major’. This means that every note in this song will be a note in the ‘C Major Scale’.
Here are the notes for ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb.’
3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5
E, D, C, D, E, E, E, D, D, D, E, G, G
E, D, C, D, E, E, E, D, D, E, D, C.
The numbers are the fingers you should use.
The letters are the notes on the piano. The numbers are right above the corresponding letter.
Congratulations to you !
You have just learned the basics of the piano’s keyboard, the Major Scale and your first song! If you want to master to learn play piano ,then Rocket Piano , which is the best online piano learning course , will help you to learn piano step by step.
Thank you for reading …Please remember to PRACTICE! at least 45 minutes daily 
James Hau
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