How To Take Your Piano Playing To The Next Level
Are you ready to finally learn how to play piano despite years of lessons? If youre like many students of the piano, all your lessons and all your practicing have only gotten you so far. Maybe youve found that youve hit a wall in your piano playing ability, beyond which you just cant seem to get. The following are some helpful tips for taking your piano playing to next level.
* Learn pattern recognition: Every song ever written follows a pattern, a structure of sections and chord progressions. You need only listen to a handful of songs by The Beatles to hear what we mean. To expand your repertoire and build versatility in your ability to pick up nearly any song you hear quickly and easily, learn the patterns with which all songs are composed.
* Play by the numbers: Every song is written in a particular key – one of but 12, to be precise – and every key has its scales, series of notes in specific intervals, any of which will sound natural and pleasing to the ear when played in its respective key. Every scale in every key has its 1-chord, its 2-chord, etc. Instead of straining yourself to memorize...