Learning To Play The Piano
With the right tools and the will to learn, anyone can learn to play the piano. Though there are 88 keys, the note names repeat over and over, and each note name looks the same octave to octave. This makes learning so much easier than people think. So, the white key between the set of two black keys is a D, every time. What could be easier? The note names are A to G, and just as they are consecutive in the alphabet, so they are on the piano.
Placing both hands over the keyboard, each finger over one white key, fingers bent slightly at the middle knuckles, as if you were going to grab a doorknob. Gently push down each key, one at a time. If your fingers are in an identical position in each octave, the notes will sound the same. If not, re-examine your hands, and place them on identical notes, with each hand comfortably in front of your shoulders. With gentle pressure on the keys, you will find you can make lovely sounds.
Learning to read the notes is not all that difficult, either. There are five lines and four spaces on each staff. Since there are only seven note names, the notes repeat within the staff, as well. With a few simple lessons, from a user friendly lesson plan, you will learn that the names of the lines in the left hand clef, the bass (pronounced base) clef are G, B, D, F, A, for which you can make an acronym, such as Girls Bake Delicious Food Always, or something else with letters of the lines as the first letter of the word.
The spaces in the bass clef spell A,C, E, G, or All Cows Eat Grass. As you can see, the names on the staff are consecutive, as well, moving from line to the space above, to the next line above, etc. The right hand (treble clef) lines are E, G, B, D, F, which you can memorize by thinking Every Good Boy Deserves Fun. The spaces spell F, A, C, E. And just as moving up the keyboard to the right makes the notes go higher, moving up on the staff makes the notes go higher, as well. You can learn to play the piano quickly, by remembering some of these easy to learn concepts.
Playing along with the radio, or sounding out your favorite Gospel songs, or finding chords in an old Elvis tune are quite literally at your fingertips. In no time at all you will be playing as if you have done so for a long, long time. Just make sure your lesson plans are easy to understand, and give you real life practice on real songs, and you can learn to play the piano in no time. Good luck.
