| There are two things that make it so much more | | | | Here?s a little experiment: Try writing down on a piece |
| difficult to learn piano from a book. Thankfully, there's a | | | | of paper the sound that a bluebird makes, so that |
| solution to the problem. | | | | someone who?s never heard a bluebird can make the |
| 1. Most piano beginner books are aimed at children. It | | | | sound back to you. Of course, it can?t be done. No |
| appears that the piano book publishing sector thinks | | | | amount of words (supplied in a visual medium) can |
| that only children want to learn the piano. This is plainly | | | | ever translate into an auditory one. It?s the same as |
| not the case as there are thousands and thousands of | | | | trying to tell a blind man what the color blue looks like. |
| people who have always dreamed of playing piano | | | | It?s not possible. So what?s the answer? For years |
| but who never had the chance to learn when they | | | | and years there was no solution and all the people |
| were children. I know because I?m one of them. Years | | | | who wanted to teach-yourself piano only had these |
| ago, when I was a kid, I didn?t know anyone who | | | | silent books which could never teach them properly. |
| played the piano or who even had a piano in their front | | | | But now, it?s time to rejoice! Easy piano lessons for |
| room. This was always the norm in middle-class | | | | beginners do exist at last! The new generation of |
| Victorian families but not, alas, among the working | | | | piano lesson software contains not only the words and |
| classes. So very few of us had the opportunity of | | | | the notes written on the staves that you expect to |
| learning the piano at that time. Nowadays, children do | | | | see but also, and this is the killer difference, they |
| have that opportunity and so today, if you pick up any | | | | contain audio clips of the pieces of music that you?re |
| of the majority of beginner piano books, you?ll find that | | | | supposed to be learning. It really does make an |
| it?s littered with little elves and pixies, the tunes will be | | | | enormous difference because finally it's possible to |
| mindlessly dull and the net effect will be to turn you | | | | see what the notes look like and hear the sound that |
| away from what you?re trying to achieve. That?s not | | | | they translate into when played by a professional. It |
| to say that there aren?t any beginner piano books | | | | makes it much, much simpler and a lot quicker too, to |
| targeted at adults, but they are not easy to find. And | | | | learn to play piano than it's ever been before. |
| they still suffer from one major problem. And this | | | | Thankfully it is true, you can get easy piano lessons for |
| takes me to my next point: | | | | beginners. It?s simply a matter of downloading the best |
| 2. Piano lessons from books are intrinsically flawed. | | | | package for you and get playing at last! |