I've made it my goal to learn to play the piano next year. I'm trully interested in Jazz piano. What should I start off on?
2006-11-16 08:31:20 · 9 answers · asked by THE BLIND BANDITS 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
You need to start from the beginning and learn how to read music, unless you already know. Find a Jazz song you want to learn, and get the music sheet for it. Then learn how to play that song.
2006-11-16 08:38:41 · answer #1 · answered by Teresa 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Everyone gets their lazy moments and it's perfectly fine because some people hold the talent to move forward without any practice at all. It's easy when you buy the pop books with bigger notes. It will be labeled "Easy Piano". When you play the easy songs, then gradually start buying the harder ones in prefferable soon timing. That way all that you learned with the last book will stay with you. Practice a little and you'll be a sight reader before you know it. However, if it doesn't come to you as fast as i'm making it sound, then just practice more and wait. It'll benefit you in the future.
2016-03-19 09:18:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd start off doing classical. Classical music forms a foundation for both rock and jazz piano and gets you reading music so you'll learn all the chords, scales, technique you'll use in other genres. I also find rock far easier than jazz.
I'm a piano teacher and I start allllll my students on classical music.
2006-11-16 09:15:04 · answer #3 · answered by emthesaxer 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Classical
2006-11-16 08:33:18 · answer #4 · answered by LazyDaisy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no one style of music is easier than the other. Jazz just has a lot crazy chords and rips that are based on knowing scales and chords well. Classical and rock are the same thing, just creatively different. The best thing to do is to buy a dvd with the basics, one that will teach you how to read music first and then where to locate what you read on the keyboard and how to translate that into music...GOOD LUCK, its a really great instrument.
2006-11-16 08:35:28 · answer #5 · answered by shanstew 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Classical is mos def tha easiest, but jazz, imo, sounds the best... it doesn't sound like a cheap immitation of the pop charts (rock) or like it came "Straight Outta 14th Century England" (classical) but it's just the purest music.
Jazz, Blues, etc. will attract more people, but CLASSICAL is the easiest
2006-11-16 08:37:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi !how are you? i am a 17 year old girl i was young some years ago but now i have a lot of lessons and home work i live in iran and the university entering exam is hard yeah about 4 years ago i played piano i am turk of iran and so mmy family i mean the people of my city speak turkish and you know azari musics are something that you have to play really fast and it is hard to play it but in iran all the people can speak persian or farsi and so i play farsi songs too they are easier that azeri musics and i can play classical music too it is really easy like farsi songs so i have to tell you that in my opinion classical music for a piano player is the easiest. good luck! and bye bye!
2006-11-16 08:40:16 · answer #7 · answered by star 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just beginning, you should find just a simple beginners book. I'm sure you can find a nice easy Jazz song, but when it gets really fast and Ragtime-y, that's a bit hard to learn when you just start off at the bat.
2006-11-16 09:33:33 · answer #8 · answered by Lady Ettejin of Wern 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I were you, I'd start off on classical because it's the least "free" music, therefore following the notation exactly rather than ad-libbing leaves you free to concentrate on the keys.
2006-11-16 08:34:56 · answer #9 · answered by Beth D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋