| If you're interested in learning how to play the piano | | | | lesson, you see exactly what you'll be using to create |
| and you're a beginner listen up. What I'm about to | | | | with. At the beginning of most art lessons, the author |
| share with you will have you playing the piano in no | | | | introduces you to the materials and techniques you'll be |
| time at all. | | | | using to complete a finished painting. That's exactly |
| First off, forget about note reading. Forget about sheet | | | | what I do with piano instruction. |
| music and trying to play Bach or Beethoven. While all | | | | And my students love it. It gets them playing piano |
| of these have their place in piano lessons for | | | | almost right away. Plus, it allows them to create music |
| beginners, it's not what I'm going to teach you. I | | | | with modern sounding chords instead of the usual |
| promised you a new approach and that's exactly | | | | boring triads. |
| what this article will deliver. | | | | Note reading is not required for this approach. Just a |
| Take a look at my free piano lesson "Reflections in | | | | little knowledge of chords. For the lesson "Reflections |
| Water," (available by clicking below.) The first thing you | | | | in Water," you'll see 4 chords and the keyboard |
| probably will notice is the title followed by what this | | | | diagrams they are laid out on. Once you get the feel |
| lesson will teach you to do - namely using open | | | | for the open position chord, you'll love it and want to |
| position chords in the Key of C major to create a | | | | play the piano with enthusiasm. Why? Because it's fun! |
| calm, relaxed atmosphere. | | | | And it's easy. |
| Notice anything here? This piano lesson actually looks | | | | And if that wasn't enough to get you motivated, there |
| like an art lesson doesn't it! It's completely different as it | | | | are also audio samples that let you hear how another |
| takes you step by step through the process of | | | | pianist plays it. |
| actually creating your own music. | | | | Piano lessons for beginners do not have to be the |
| After you notice the title and the description of the | | | | same old boring thing most of us have come to know. |
| lesson, you may also notice a small paragraph of text | | | | They can actually be fun AND creative! |
| to the left that reads "materials used." Again, like an art | | | | |