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Frank Cox
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From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 04-08-2015 12:36 AM
A lot of the folks on this message board are really smart and artistic dudes, so you will be a great source of advice since I've never tried anything like this before.
I got the idea a little while back that it might be interesting to learn to play a piano. My scheme, such as it is, would be to purchase a digital piano of some sort, then get whatever lessons I need off of ye olde Internet, play around with my piano and see what happens. My ultimate goal would be to be able to play boogie, since I've always got a big kick out of that musical style. I'm sure that in the near term, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star will be more like what I could actually manage to plink out.
I did teach myself to read sheet music several years ago with the purpose of adding music to some computerized birthday and Christmas cards and I think a game or two that I wrote at that time. I vaguely recall ripping off some Beethoven and some Dixieland riffs from some sheet music that I found around that time; must have been a program of some sort. But that was all 20+ years back, I've had no reason to look at anything similar since, and I've pretty much forgotten what I used to know about it. I still remember that middle C is in the middle.
My knowledge of music in general (outside of listening to it) is pretty much nil.
Do any of you fine folks have any recommendations for someone in my position who's never had much exposure to that sort of thing up to this point? I figure if kids can do this, I see no reason why I can't manage it.
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Mike Blakesley
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posted 04-08-2015 01:49 AM
I took piano lessons for several years and then switched over to organ (I liked the sound of the organ better -- more variety). About 10 or 11 years of lessons in all.
I don't know how successful you would be with lessons off the internet, since you don't have somebody there pointing out what you're doing wrong. And, I can definitely say that playing well is NOT as easy as a good piano player makes it look. But the results of hard work and practice are very rewarding.
I would suggest finding a teacher for at least the fundamentals, maybe a year's worth of lessons, and then decide from there if you want to consider internet lessons or continue with personal instruction. That's the route I'd take, at least. From personal experience it would be hard to beat the personal instruction route - for one thing, it's a lot more motivating to keep going when you hit rough patches.
Caution: If you let it slip that you're a piano player, you will soon get inundated with requests to play music at churches, weddings, funerals and the like, so be careful who you brag about your new-found talent to. Unless of course you're the type who LOVES to play in front of as many people as possible... in that case let us know when your debut CD comes out!
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