For the love of music... Genuine people only please?!
Question: This may sound a little weird and a bit freaky, but i have always loved and appreicated seeing peolpe play the piano, and a piece of me envys them as well.
I've always wanted to play the piano, not to become famous pianist, but just for the love of the instrument and music.
Also the passion that playing your favourite song can produce when interpreting your own personal way.
I dabbled with the bass as a kid in my local youth club, but the music teacher was sacked for one reason.
I love listening to music with all my heart, but i wiould love create it with my bare hands. i know it's not an over night talent, but im so commited to learn because it's always been a dream of mine.
I'm 32 and apart from my family life which i love, my spare time is filled by flipping xbox 360.
I live in the Finsbury Park area of London, and i would love anyone who has been blessed with this talent to pass it on to me.
4 da luv of music
If you can help email me
sjc_4life2003@yahoo.co.uk
Answers: This may sound a little weird and a bit freaky, but i have always loved and appreicated seeing peolpe play the piano, and a piece of me envys them as well.
I've always wanted to play the piano, not to become famous pianist, but just for the love of the instrument and music.
Also the passion that playing your favourite song can produce when interpreting your own personal way.
I dabbled with the bass as a kid in my local youth club, but the music teacher was sacked for one reason.
I love listening to music with all my heart, but i wiould love create it with my bare hands. i know it's not an over night talent, but im so commited to learn because it's always been a dream of mine.
I'm 32 and apart from my family life which i love, my spare time is filled by flipping xbox 360.
I live in the Finsbury Park area of London, and i would love anyone who has been blessed with this talent to pass it on to me.
4 da luv of music
If you can help email me
sjc_4life2003@yahoo.co.uk
My mother was a piano teacher. I had my room right next to the room she taught in. I had the rare opportunity to listen to her teach piano lessons for over thirty years. What an education! Did you know you can use osmosis to learn how to play the piano? Have you a piano? You can sit down at a piano and just poke notes with either hand and before you know it you will start to absorb the tone clusters, such as a three-tone chord. I mean, the notes will make sense to you. You could teach yourself to play the piano just by sitting down at one and poking notes. Yes, it would take a bit of time, but before you know it you would be doing what we call "playing by ear." You could make your fingers find something with your left hand that sounds a little bit like a background sound, and then with your right hand you could poke out a melody and then I'll bet you could play both hands together and even produce a song. If you took a song like "Danny Boy" and played just the tune with your right hand along, very slowly, I think in no time you would be able to find something with your left hand in the lower notes of the piano to make the melody with your right hand sound fairly convincing. It has a lot to do with your inner mindset, you see. Also, if you have a good ear, you're all set, and I believe you do have a good ear. My mother had infinite patience with everyone, especially children. She was THE person to bring your child in our neighborhood, and she must have had the patience of Job! But they all learned to play the piano really well by taking lessons from her. She died in 1981. What a wonderful soul. Here is what she would say to you: If you keep your eyes peeled you will indeed find more than one person who would be happy to show you the piano basics, and you must keep your mind wide open to find and enjoy the company of such a person. Everyone is not money oriented. Some people just love music so much they would consider it an honour just to teach you the basics.
Are you looking for free lessons? Good luck with that...it is a good thing to know but most want to be compensated for the time they are teaching someone else.
Just go to the local shop and purchase a cheap electronic keyboard, then get yourself a couple of Mel Bay instructional books and, yeah baby! You are rockin! Ya don't need some blow-hard pretentious piano snob standing over you to learn the basics. Just the spare time and a love for music. Oh, and pick some songs that you love, not that DOE_RAE_MI or Kumbaya stuff. Thats fine at first, but it gets REALLY redundant.
I would also love to play the keyboard.I have one sitting redundant but the lessons are so expensive.
I have a standard upright piano, but neither of my two children want to learn how to play!!
Good luck in your quest...but if you get no joy I would do what helpim said, buy the books and with your free time spend it teaching yourself=]
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you can get pretty decent self teaching guides.. seriously..
they will teach you about things, you can already read music? if so thats a good start..
as for me, I own 3 grand piano's and numerous keyboards such as rhodes piano etc.. obviously not the real things (as I wouldn't have ￡100,000 or the space for em ;-) ) , software versions are great though..
look at >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SWGr2wWX...
your in finsbury park? get yaself off to denmark street off tottenham court road, and go turn key.. or go to a digital village.. www.dv247.com
ask for advice.. as for a keyboard, you'll probably go for a weighted 88 key piano + sustain pedal.. (that'll have no sounds) .. and you can add a piano/xg module OR a pc emulating it.
I taught myself.. as did ray charles etc.. it's only 12 notes.. and a few octaves.. if you learn the basic rules about triads of choards, minor and major choards thats a good start..