How to Learn Piano for Beginners

The piano is one of the most versatile musical instruments, essential for many styles of music. While mastery of the piano takes years of study and practice, a beginner can learn the basics of playing piano by an independent study, including the locations of keys and how to read sheet music.


Instructions

1

Learn the basics of music notation not. Any Western music is played on a stick, a series of five parallel horizontal lines used to indicate ground. The height is determined by which line or space of a personal note head (small circles, symbols, usually attached to a fal) is sitting on. The upper head is the note on the staff, plus the height.

Some locations will sit just above or below the bars. In this case, they may have small lines drawn below and / or through the note heads. They are called "leger lines" and have the effect of extending staff.

2

Familiarize yourself with the staff at the Grand - two staff lines that are played at the same time, the one with the right hand and the other with the left. The right hand usually plays in the treble clef, the notes are (from bottom to top) E, G, B, D and F on the lines and F, A, C, E spaces. The left hand plays the bass clef, the notes are E, G, B, D, F and on lines A, C, E, G on the spaces. If there are lines Lightweight, lines or spaces follow the alphabetical pattern up or down. Note that the musical alphabet goes as far as the letter G, then starts over A.

3

Sit with good posture. Sit, relaxed but your piano bench, placed in the center of the keyboard. Raise your hands and rest on the keyboard with elbows hanging below, and always in search of a sense of weight in your arms, lifting them as necessary to play the notes. Curl your fingers so that your thumbs can comfortably reach the keyboard. Always relax your shoulders.

4

Find out where the notes on the piano. If you have a full piano keyboard piano with 88 keys (all natural pianos will be full), the first note on the bottom left of the keyboard will be an A. Whatever the type of piano, note the most important for a beginner is located in the center of the keyboard: the C. the medium is a C white key just left of center group of more than two black keys. Every other button that follows this pattern on the keyboard is also a C, but in a different octave (which means it will sound similar, but weaker). The middle C appears on the first leger line below the treble clef staff and the first leger line above the bass clef staff.

5

Operate the pedals with your right foot. Rest your left foot and press your heel on the ground and use your foot as a sort of hinge to lower the pedals. The piano has three pedals (electric pianos could be less) used to create different musical effects. The right pedal is called the damper pedal, and is used to give the piano a more sustained, the echo-y sound. The middle pedal is the sustain pedal. This will keep the locations that are played at the same time the pedal is pressed, but no further. The left pedal is the soft pedal. This pedal is used to soften the overall volume of the piano.