Playing the piano

[Ayachuco]

Playing the piano is easy huh. I mean all your doin is just pressin some keys and using the pedaling just to have a full sound out of it right? Wrong. Playing the piano is an art that is often misused and should be treated properly. One should not suffer trying to play loud chords or scales or whatever. A trained pianist plays loud when attacking the piano with the arms or the body to have an even louder effect (physics). When scales are played, the mature pianist rotates their wrists as they are trained to relax their them. When playing music from the romantic era, the pianist should always play legato and should work on voicing trying to make the melody sing through harmony or broken chords accompianment. Pedaling is another crucial concept to learn. It is an offense to the listener if you pedal without reason in which you will most likely cause a disturbing sinority. In general, pedaling means to hold certain notes simply because the hands cannot hold them because they are busy with other notes. Pedal at the very tip and do not go all the way down unless it is necessary to do so in some circumstances. The piano takes years to master and theres a whole lot to learn about but not in one day. There is slow pracice to learn in having technique and making sure you do exercises everyday to have good technique. Now the organ, that's a different story.

Here are some tips from other people about proper piano playing:

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/cgi-bi...2;t=009758;p=0

[Ayachuco]

who plays the piano. any questions, comments?

[Csargo]

Not me.

[Avicenna]

My mum made me learn it for a few years, absolutely loathed it. I really don't see how it's 'lucky' and even a privelige to have to pay to:
a) buy the darned thing
b) find space for the darned thing
c) pay money to learn how to play the darned thing
d) play for other people's enjoyment when you've learned
A complete utter waste of effort, the single biggest waste of time in my life. Ever. At least RTW inspired me to read and hence learn some history, while enjoying myself.

[IrishArmenian]

I play Guitar, Violin, Tin Whistle and I am learning the Harp and I tell you, all instruments are much harder than they seem.

[Csargo]

Well if were doing that then I play Guitar, Bass, and the Triangle

[GeneralHankerchief]

A complete utter waste of effort, the single biggest waste of time in my life. Ever. At least RTW inspired me to read and hence learn some history, while enjoying myself.

Not true.

There's still the dream of becoming a keyboardist for some rock group in which case the piano does have some use- groupie attractor.

But aside from that, you pretty much made me realize that I've been playing the stupid thing all these years for nothing.

[doc_bean]

I played organ/keyboards before I hit puberty. I like the sound of a piano (or keyboard) but can't bring myself to spend enough time with it to learn to play it again (I also have a bass and can hardly play that ).

[Avicenna]

Not true.

There's still the dream of becoming a keyboardist for some rock group in which case the piano does have some use- groupie attractor.

But aside from that, you pretty much made me realize that I've been playing the stupid thing all these years for nothing.

Let's just say I'm not exactly the type that listens to this kind of music. Makes me go

It's supposed to make you better at maths though. Note that that's just speculation, as plenty of my classmates have played piano since they could barely talk, but I've always been best at maths.

[Dutch_guy]

My mum made me learn it for a few years, absolutely loathed it.

Hmm that's about the same way I felt, my parents however loved me playing it, if you liked it so much then why didn't you start playing !

Thought so.

[Ayachuco]

Playing the piano is not hard! All you have to do is start playing the piano when your six years old diligently everyday for ten years and you'll be a phenominal pianist. Then you can learn how to play the organ!