If you took keyboard lessons as a kid and now as an adult are wanting to return and take it up again, you will still need to take starter piano lessons to refresh you ono how to play piano chords and so on . Even if you have never touched a keyboard before, the way you are taught will still be the same. Of the many different forms of teaching there are a lot of similarities common to them all.

A lot of students these days will be learning on keyboards instead of the traditional piano but for a beginner the learning process will be similar. The aim of many of beginners is to be able to play a little in many styles, they might want to be able to play classical, jazz, pop etc and most want to have the skills to play by ear and also read a little music too.

In many cases the beginner might also have an interest in accompanying other instrumentalists or singers. As a beginner, to have such ambition could appear somewhat ambitious but before you start your piano playing journey you will need to get clear what you want to get out of it. If you put your mind to it you will soon be achieving many of your goals.

There is a method of teaching piano that I really like which is used by a home study course called ‘Piano For All’. I recently wrote a review for this course and would like to share with you my impressions First off you are shown how to find all of the notes on the keyboard, these same notes are then shown to you on the musical stave so you can go about familiarizing yourself with them. This is gone through very quickly and then you are shown how to play a simple melody using all of your fingers This melody is also written down in both easy to follow keyboard diagrams and musical stave. This part of the lesson is completed in a very short time.

Next you are taught the three notes you will need to enable you to play a basic chord. You produce the chord sound by playing it to an easy rhythm they teach you. You are asked to play the fist note of the chord an octave lower with your left hand which gives you the bass. Add a rhythm to this and suddenly you find yourself playing authentic sounding piano. When playing this chord with its bass line becomes simple you can then go onto learning a few more simple chords.

Now you know a few chords you can play them changing from one to another in order and you will realize that you are playing real piano songs or accompaniments. If you learn to play using this method you will discover that it is really quite easy and this will give you confidence in your playing leaving you with a taste for more. Moving on through the beginners course you get taught some more rhythms and a few more melodies and chords. All of what you play is printed as keyboard diagrams and on the musical stave too. You will be playing real sounding piano or keyboards in much less time than you imagined.

In my opinion this method of learning is one of the best as it encompasses playing all styles of music from classical to pop, rock, jazz and gospel.

You also get taught how to read music and play by ear and as such is very effective.

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