Im teaching myself to play the electric keyboard.... Whats the next step...?

Question

Im teaching myself to play the electric keyboard.... Whats the next step... I can play simple melodies like Ode to Joy, Alouette, Auld Lang Synce, For hes a jooly good fellow, etc... I have pretty decent key recognition and can read basic music. What are some good beginning two handed songs I can play? I can play Ode to Joy, etc with chords but need something abit more challenging....

P.S. i CAN READ BASS CLEF

Answer 1

Find yourself a beginner piano player book. John Thompson, Edna Burnham, Michael Aaron, all have good method books for piano. Sounds like you're at least at level 2 by now, so go get grade 2 and 3 of one of those series for music at your level.
Better yet, go take some private lessons!

Good Luck!

Answer 2

I also taught myself on keyboard. One thing that I did was learning some theory about chord and scale. It's not too hard. Find some good music theory book for beginner (like dummies' series) to learn how to construct chord. Practice with scale. Then you can play any pop music without even have to read the music. It's a different way of learning and, IMO, a lot more fun.

Answer 3

Try to play song with bass cleff, like this.

http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0039218

Hopefully, you can read bass cleff, but if not, I suggest learning, it is an important part of piano. Later on, you can try even harder things. I am currently learning "Golliwog's Cake-Walk", which looks like this

http://www.mfiles.co.uk/scores/Golliwogs-Cakewalk.pdf