Started with piano. What?

[loetsj]

Hello,

I'm Bart and recently decided to start to play the piano. Because the University at which I'm studying provides free pianos for its students I could start right away.

I'm practicing as follows:

- I start off by taking a look at the keyboard, and examining myself about which key is which note.Sometimes I randomly pick a key and say as fast as possible what notes it stands for.

- Then I practise scales. I play the Cmaj, Gmaj and A major scales. Once I am able to play these well, I will move on (perhaps in a couple of days) to the other major scales. After I can do these well I am planning to do the minor scales of each note. Doing so, I hope I will be able to play all scales quite well in a reasonable time.

- Then I practise chords and their inversions

- And then I practise a song: The first piece of the beginners book by Czerny and the Minuet in G by Bach (from Anna Magdalena's notebook)

I was wondering if these songs might be to hard to start with and if I'm focusing on the right things. Perhaps I should learn other things first?

So, to cut a long story short, which things should I be focusing on when I learn to play the piano? Where do I have to start and what do I have to be able to do when I want to go on with the next thing. (I see it as a videogame in which you have to have completed the first level in order to 'unlock' the second. The only problem is I don't know which level comes first and which comes second and third and so on.)

best wishes
Bart

[j_menz]

It would help to have a teacher. Failing that, do you have a friend who already plays to help you along?


Failing either of those, I'd recommend that you get one of the adult piaono course books and work through that at your own pace.

[ratihmaharani]

hello bart, nice to know you
i am new too in learning piano

what j_menz said were right. teacher or someone who can guide will really help.
maybe you can start by reading and playing beyer as i did, my teacher gave me beyer for children as a first step. beyer vol. 1 - junior piano concert A, then beyer vol. 2 - junior piano concert B, duvernoy, burgmuller, junior piano concert C and then another books. You'll find out the upgraded skills from the books you tried to play with.

it depends on you if you play contemporary or classical, but learning the basics of playing piano will very help.


Regards,

CMIIW 

[krajcher]

Hi loetsj,

the most important thing at the beginning is appropriate hand position. If you learn it wrong, it will be very, very difficult to change it.

Because of that it would be helpful if you took piano lesson with teacher.