A BEGINNER WITH A MAJOR PROBLEM

[redwing2024]

  Hi Guys!... I'm a newbie piano student (without a teacher  )... And I'm trying to learn piano music by myself But the Big Problem is... I don't have a real piano... I mean, the piano with a stand a pedal, which you can manually sustain and control the volume... I only got a mini-electric organ... The big problem with my piano is, it only have 4 Scales comparing to the real piano which has more... And another thing is, my piano doesn't seem to be stroked like a real piano because it is very easy to strike (And I always strike 2 notes when my finger slips )...

I always dream of playing a piano since I was a little child but I don't have a chance to learn because, my family can not afford to buy and enroll me in a piano lesson (Financial Problem )


But I really need to learn how to play a piano because love music... But for now, I don't have a choice...

Can I learn piano with just that simple piano I have right now??
( though it sounds like real piano, I've learned how to play "Fur Elise-Intro" by listening and just knowing the right notes i need to strike)

I hope I can play a real piano someday....

[enharmonic]

It sounds like what you have right now isn't close enough to a real piano for you to be able to apply what you learn here to a real piano (like how to stroke the keys). If you cannot afford a real piano, an electric keyboard that's very similar to a piano might work. I remember I had a small keyboard when I first began, and it wasn't even touch-sensitive. It was cheap, though, and close enough to a piano so that I could actually learn the basics pretty well using it. Perhaps you could purchase a keyboard? It would be closer to a real piano (your fingers wouldn't hit two notes by slipping, and you could probably get one where the keys don't go down super-easily) and still affordable.

Eventually, you might be able to obtain a real piano and switch over, or you could try to rent practice rooms (some places have them, I know). The subtleties and personality of a real piano are kind of lost with a keyboard, but it is close enough to learn how to play the piano with.

[countrymath]

I've learned Fur Elise on a 20 dolars Casio. I had a piano to practice at a school, near my house, but only when I had lessons (1 day on the week)

just curious...where are u from?

[redwing2024]

I'm a Filipino. And currently living here in the Philippines... I consider myself belonging in the middle class here in our country... But to say that I'm in the middle class, my family can afford 3 meals per day and can enter me to college.... Right now, I just finished my Nursing course and currently taking up my review for our board exam...

Well, since I was seven or school age, I had this dream to play the piano on stage while singing my favorite songs along with it.. But then, I had no chance to learn piano and concentrate myself on my future profession... Then, I woke up one day, after listening some classical music, I just remembered my dream... Then a walking vendor pass by, he's selling some electronic keyboards (made in China), I bought one of it, thinking that I could now play my piano...   .... After a week or a two, I search on our school library to find some piano books so I could learn the basics.. I found some books, but I think it's not enough for me to really learn piano...

I checked on the internet to search for something helpful for my studies.. But it will took me time to read and watch videos.. I don't have my own internet connection or even a computer set, so I only rent on computer cafe'...Then, that's it... I really want to learn piano, but chances are so narrow that I could only see myself being so left on nothing...

  

[redwing2024]

I've learned Fur Elise on a 20 dolars Casio. I had a piano to practice at a school, near my house, but only when I had lessons (1 day on the week)

just curious...where are u from?

Fur Elise(Intro) is the first piece I've learned to play on my 54notes keyboard...  After knowing how to read a music sheet, I copied a sheet from the internet and downloaded an MP3 on my cellphone... After 2 weeks, I can play the intro... I can't play the whole stuff.. only the intro..

[lostinidlewonder]

Plenty of music from the Baroque period that you can play on that keyboard with no problems at all.

[countrymath]

I think you should get a work (if you don't have one yet) and save money to buy a piano and get some lessons. Thats what I did.

I live in Brazil. Prices here are 70% higher then europe, and we earn 60% less. I only could buy my privia after 6 months saving every cent of my wage (but the lesson's price). I started with 16, btw.

I want to be a professional, but i'm sure I will not reach it on the next 3 years...so I will take things slow.

[anamoguis]

Redwing2024,
 
I commend you for trying to learn on your own - keep that "keyboard" and learn from it.... being familiar with the keys and finding pieces you can play in that instrument until you are able to get a real keyboard.  You don't really need the 88 keys as a beginner.

I know you could be my son/daughter as I am already 50 but I am just starting to learn to play the piano on my own to realize a life-long dream.  I let my daughter study piano and she did for 8 years but she still doesn't play very well.  I learned a little while watching her take her piano lessons when she was younger.  I can play all the pieces in the Michael Aaron's grade 1 book. But I never practiced regularly and didn't have the techniques.

Last year, I concentrated on practicing and did Hanon for a while but was diagnosed with bursitis and carpal tunnel sydrome.  I wasn't sure if it was from playing tennis or from too much piano playing.  Without a piano teacher, you wouldn't know if you were doing it correctly.  It may sound good to you but your posture and hand position maybe off.

Good luck to you  and I hope you pass the board and become a full-pledged nurse and be able to buy a piano.