Why Learning The Piano Is So HardSeptember 29
I’ll start off by saying that yes, the piano is the hardest instrument to learn (in my opinion). I know it looks easy when you watch people and it just looks like you need to press the keys in the right order and you make a nice tune, but there is so much more to it than that! The first stumbling block for most people is that they are going to get both hands doing different things, which most people have no experience with until they start learning the piano. So to make the beautiful music you hear pianists plays then you could have your left-hand playing a repeating tune and then the right-hand is playing the moving part of the song, something which is really difficult for most people to grasp.
We don’t tend to think about the fact they are using their hands to do two different things at the same time when we watch someone play. With a guitar then it is slightly easier as your left-hand just moves between chords while your right-hand strums (that is a simplification, but basically right), but on a piano you can have the two hands in different places playing different tunes. That means with a piano you also have two lines of music to read and interpret, rather than the one with most other instruments. Don’t panic though, with a lot of hard work and practice you can get used to following it. Getting a good course to follow like the one mentioned in this Rocket piano review will really help you learn quickly too.
So now you know how difficult it is going to be are you still interested? Most people don’t have the dedication to learn the piano if they didn’t already learn it growing up, but it is a fantastic instrument to be able to play, so if you do put in the work you will be richly rewarded in the end.
29 Sep 2010 | 1:40 pm | Uncategorized
