I played all woodwind instruments for a while now (8 years) and now I want to teach myself to play keyboard. Any suggestions? I used to play a little when I was in middle school. And I purchased a new keyboard about 2 years ago but stop playing it when I graduated from high school.
2007-09-02 16:35:46 · 2 answers · asked by April 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
I'd say that, since you've played instruments before and can therefore read music fairly well, your best best is just to go to a music store and buy a level 1 and level 2 keyboard book. You can go through the exercises yourself, skip things that you are ahead of, and focus on the things you find harder. Most lesson books normally have little helpful sidenotes that can provide some answers if you get stuck on something. Another really helpful (and sort of fun) way to really improve your playing is to buy the piano sheet music to a song you love (nothing insanely hard, but definately challenging). Just the fact that you already know how the song should sound will help you to hear your own mistakes and make it easier to focus on the new instrument rather than the rhythm and such. Plus, it's fun to learn a song you like.
I know you said you've played woodwinds for a while and have tried the keyboard in middle school, but from personal experience with teaching myself the keyboard, it is really really helpful to know bass clef (I'm assuming you know treble clef from playing woodwinds) well BEFORE even touching the piano. I remember getting frustrated often that it took me no time at all to read the treble (I played flute so I knew it well) and like 3 minutes to read a measure of bass.
Hope this somewhat helped.
2007-09-02 16:50:56 · answer #1 · answered by entrechat_sote 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been teaching myself for a while now and any Casio keyboard with a minimum of 61 keys will be a great and cheap keyboard to learn on. The are tons of great lessons online and i guess it really depends on how best you learn and what you want to learn but if you just type in piano lessons or tutorials into youtube their are some really good ones. A channel on youtube called Lypur teaches everything from the basics of playing keyboard/piano to the really difficult intermediate stuff. Hope that helps and good luck! :)
2016-03-17 22:37:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you do not wish to take formal lessons, see link below.
2007-09-02 16:43:57 · answer #3 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋