How Do You Teach Yourself To Play The Piano?
Find a piano to use. You may have one at home, or you may be able to find one somewhere else. You also need to make sure the piano is reasonably tuned. If your piano hasn’t been played for ages, or has recently been moved, chances are, it’s at least a bit out of tune. While the piano being a tiny bit off shouldn’t matter much, if the piano is worse, you may want to have it tuned by a professional before going any further. • Acquire some prior musical knowledge. Teaching yourself to play the piano will be pretty much impossible if you haven’t had some sort of professional teaching on some other instrument — you need to know how to read and understand music before you can teach yourself to play anything. It does not matter if the other instrument you can play is, say, a Bb clarinet or an Eb alto saxophone, even though the piano is a C instrument. In fact, once you get better at the piano, you can do some really cool things if you play an instrument in another key. • Figure out which key
• Find a piano to use. You may have one at home, or you may be able to find one somewhere else. You also need to make sure the piano is reasonably tuned. If your piano hasn’t been played for ages, or has recently been moved, chances are, it’s at least a bit out of tune. While the piano being a tiny bit off shouldn’t matter much, if the piano is worse, you may want to have it tuned by a professional before going any further. • If you’re unable to find a piano, a keyboard is a great alternative. They’re affordable, never go out of tune, and have lots of sounds and features that can enhance your music. And higher end keyboard models sound just as good or better than many grand pianos. Not to mention they’re a lot easier to move around and don’t take up much space. • Acquire some prior musical knowledge. Teaching yourself to play the piano will be pretty much impossible if you haven’t had some sort of professional teaching on some other instrument — you need to know how to read and unders
