Use Your Time Wisely Learning How to Play the Piano

Have you ever thought what it's like to just sit down at a piano and start playing music on demand? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a world famous keyboard player like Rick Wakeman or Keith Emerson? Do you say, I would love to learn but I don't have the time? You're not on your own.

People have legitimate concerns, which stop them making that all important decision to start learning to play the piano. Yes you want to be a great pianist but negative thoughts creep in to your head like will it be to hard to learn to play a piano. You have to be positive, if you want to learn to play the piano, do it. There's no magic wand, the more you practice on the piano the better you will be.

Money, time and patience will be needed when starting to learn how to play the piano. You will need to set up an ongoing budget for piano lessons and teachers and of course, you have to buy a piano or keyboard. You might also be able to find a try before you buy scheme. Lots of high quality pianos and keyboards are available that will easily fit your budget. A good piano that is tuned correctly will provide more pleasure when playing it.

The next stage after you have bought a piano is to find a good piano teacher. There are many learning and teaching styles, although they all ultimately teach you to play the piano, you may want to go in one direction, for instance gospel music instead of classical music.

When you start learning to play the piano is not going to give you immediate results, it’s something you do an a daily basis, its best to integrate piano lessons and practice in to your daily life so you play the piano every day without giving it a second thought. Some days you will want to give it up and other days you'll be glad you started. Organising your time will get considerably easier as you advance with the help of your piano lessons.

There will also be an improvement in what I call background benefits, these are not immediately noticeable and include recognising music patterns, coordination and memory, and you may not notice the improvement at first but believe me it's happening in the background. Finally, after all your practice and hard work you can show people, maybe your family to start with what a great player you are.

The secret to learning the piano is not giving up, it's not going to be too long before you start to see and hear results. I you cant immediately find a piano teacher you can still learn to play the piano online, there are many websites that provide piano learning software that will help you learn the piano. Piano software courses are fantastic value for money, many of these courses are bundled with videos and audio files, which can help you to learn to play the piano.

By: Mike Shaw