Level One Piano Pieces

[jobes2007]

Hi everyone. I plan on starting my dream of  learning piano this afternoon. I have been reading all about theories and scales and learning (I know how much most of you dislike technical exercises, haha). I want to start by learning all the major and minor scales, which I've already read numerous posts on here about.

I then plan to do a FEW Czerny pieces, just as warm ups. But I want a very healthy mix of these and some easy piano pieces. I've heard people talk about the levels and I was hoping someone could recommend me some level ones.

Note: I've played violin for years and did a lot of  vocal performance so I'm not as worried about learning to read the music or the theories of expression and such, I believe a lot of it will carry over from instrument to instrument.

[nanabush]

Enjoy!  If you stick with it, you will thank yourself years from now 

Burgmuller has some easier pieces, as does Kabalevsky.  A lot of composers have 'pieces for children' or 'beginner pieces' in sets, so you could probably look for some of those at www.imslp.org.

Or see if you can find a 'grade 1' book for whichever system you'd have (if there is one) where you live.  The Grade 1 RCM in Canada is very accessible after a little bit if the students' catch on to note naming and freeing themselves from "G position", "C Position" and any other grounded hand position.

So keep up with the scales, triads, and do a bit improvising for fun, and see if you can use what you've learned; sometimes taking a really neat chord you learned, or a cool scale, and messing around with it really helps absorb the new notes/figurations/fingerings.

[jobes2007]

I checked out the Burgmuller. It's seems simple enough, I'm trying to learn the first one. I will say that trying to play with both hands makes me feel like a small child, haha, it's so difficult. But I'm sure it's hard for everyone to start.

Is attempting to learn the first piece from "25 Easy and Progressive Studies" actually a good way to start, or am I still aiming a bit too high? And does anyone else have suggestions?

[dahmin]

Since you are considering to start with Czerny, it may be a little too basic for you.  But I think 'A Dozen A Day' is good for beginners.  Groups of 12 finger exercises for warm up.