Teach Yourself Piano - Where Can I Learn Piano Online From A Real Musician?!
Question: Looking at your question, Ron Worthy's site comes to mind. He's an accomplished piano player and teacher with an online training resource at the site below. (My cousin is learning from there as we couldn't find a piano teacher locally, so I know about it.)
As far as playing the piano is concerned, it's really about personality and 'touch'. The aim of every serious musician is to make his instrument of choice an extension of his self. Fingers and sound are the tools he or she needs to put across the feelings he has for the music.
Go to the piano not to reproduce a piece but to experiment with your best way to bring out what's inside you.
Nadia Boulanger, one of the greatest teachers, put it best: "Don't speak to me of talent; speak to me of desire." That's pretty good wisdom to start learning piano.
Answers: Looking at your question, Ron Worthy's site comes to mind. He's an accomplished piano player and teacher with an online training resource at the site below. (My cousin is learning from there as we couldn't find a piano teacher locally, so I know about it.)
As far as playing the piano is concerned, it's really about personality and 'touch'. The aim of every serious musician is to make his instrument of choice an extension of his self. Fingers and sound are the tools he or she needs to put across the feelings he has for the music.
Go to the piano not to reproduce a piece but to experiment with your best way to bring out what's inside you.
Nadia Boulanger, one of the greatest teachers, put it best: "Don't speak to me of talent; speak to me of desire." That's pretty good wisdom to start learning piano.
If you want to take lessons from a real musician, hire a local teacher. You will be wasting so much time trying to do it online. A teacher that is physically there with you can move you along much more quickly, than a "virtual teacher".
There is actually a online musician that will give you more help than one of your local teachers would. He will also teach you popular piano music and fulfill yor requests of any song you want to learn after many basic lessons.
the URL is webpianoteacher.com and the instructor's name is Shawn Cheek. he is also on youtube for free with a username: shawncheekeasy if you don't want to pay the small fee.
Do yourself a favor and get a real, breathing, sitting-beside-you teacher. It will give major benefits in the long run, and keep you from performing more bad habits than you would without a teacher. You get to respect somebody who in some cases (mine), plays a bazillion times better than you, and piano teachers give advice on more than just piano. Something a computer or somebody on YouTube can't give you.
Good luck in the search!
Given that you're looking for a piano teacher because there isn't one locally, it does make sense to seek online help rather than abandoning your talent. Kudos to that!
I'd suggest looking at Amazon for DVDs on playing the piano and complement it with plenty of practise. Everything takes consistency to move to the next level. Once you've picked up the basics you can look out for evening courses at a community college to boost your skills.