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If jazz piano is what you truly want to play, then there are a few requirements. The first thing is that you need to learn some traditional, classical music. This is because the fundamentals for jazz is the same as classical piano. By learning a traditional, classical style of piano, you will get a thorough … Read more
The approach to learning modern piano is somewhat different than if you wanted to learn classical piano or jazz piano. Modern piano style is very much chord based, so knowing your chords are very important. Learning to read music, especially reading a melody line would definitely be useful for playing modern music, although not absolutely … Read more
Learning to play classical piano can be quite different to how you learn to play modern piano or jazz piano, because there are obviously significant differences between the three genres. If you want to play classical piano, then you will need to learn to read music. With the other genres, it isn’t quite as necessary … Read more
If you are interested in learning more than one musical instrument in your retirement, then I think that learning the piano is the best to learn as your first instrument. Clearly, not everyone would agree with me because we all have our own biases, including myself. I think learning to play the piano first is … Read more
I know that playing scales is seen as boring at best or useless at worst, but learning to play scales are actually beneficial in many ways. Learning to play scales is actually a really straightforward way of keeping your hands nimble because you are playing one note at a time and the notes are close … Read more
I don’t know how many forums there are on the internet, but I know that there are quite a few. Actually, when I first realized that they existed, I was quite surprised that there were a few. I’m not going to comment on any particular one, as I really haven’t spent enough time on them … Read more
It can take quite a while to remember what the key signature of any particular tonality or key is. There are a few different methods to help you keep track of which key has what key signature. The first method that I think is simple and straightforward to work out a key signature is by … Read more