How to Learn Piano with Technology
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How to Learn Piano with Technology
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#3It should be noted that there is a great Linux clone of Synthesia (which is awesome, btw!):
http://linthesia.sourceforge.net
EDIT: I wouldn't necessarily agree that learning a piece with [Syn,Lin]thesia means you don't gain any theory - its really a matter of picking your piece. Learn some great theory by loading it up with a Debussy!
Screenshots here: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/linthesia
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#4Community college classes are a great way to satisfy that need to learn. Usually, community colleges have group keyboard classes, which are a great, cheap, and not-intense introduction to piano playing.
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#5Finding the piece you badly want to learn next is important to learning the piano -- just as finding a Roald Dahl or a J.K.Rowling book is important to learning to read.
Oh, and Bernhard's posts:
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,12590.0.html
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#6Also tried in learning piano on my own, and pretty fast ended up taking real classes with a teacher. Piano is like tennis, you can easily develop bad habits and they are extremely hard to remove.
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#7It should be noted that there is a great Linux clone of Synthesia (which is awesome, btw!): http://linthesia.sourceforge.net EDIT: I wouldn't necessarily agree that learning a piece with [Syn,Lin]thesia means you don't gain any theory - its really a matter of picking your piece. Learn some great theory by loading it up with a Debussy! Screenshots here: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/linthesia
To me, [Syn,Lin]thesia are very useful when YouTubers don't have time to transcribe the thing into proper sheet music. Hari Sivan[1] and Kyle Landry[2] do this and often times fans may work together to make a proper sheet[2].
Music theory helps piano players understand musical pieces better, simplifying the complexity of piano pieces and reducing the time needed to learn new pieces. It turns "put finger here, then this one here" into "play this major chord progression in the left while the right hand plays a melody starting on the first note of the major scale..." and so on. Even just understanding how to make different chords (major, minor, diminished, augmented, dominant, etc.) helps tremendously. It won't be learned from either [Syn,Lin]thesia or sheet music alone.
[1] Hari Sivan Rito Village Normal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdNUX6Z8rb0 => Synthesia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdq_NJvbUD0
[2] Kyle Landry Normal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0UErv9b4Hn5ucNNjqD1UQ Synthesia: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdkSsVttkG60X5nC0CJ2Xjg Sheets: https://musescore.com/brycepoindexter
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#8Also tried in learning piano on my own, and pretty fast ended up taking real classes with a teacher. Piano is like tennis, you can easily develop bad habits and they are extremely hard to remove.
+1 for finding teacher.
I picked up piano when I was 25. After decade of playing other instruments being self taught I've decided to try to replicate formal education: basically I was taking classes intended for small kids (using private teacher), both theory, practice and study piece.
It was quite weird to play some weird kids melodies, but it was fun and being adult I was able to finish one year of child education withing one month. It was interesting experience and it really help me with understanding music.
btw I had to learn to play directly from sheet, which was something I had never done, so I've create small app to help me with that: http://notationtraining.com (you can even plug the midi keyboard for practice).
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#9Finding the piece you badly want to learn next is important to learning the piano -- just as finding a Roald Dahl or a J.K.Rowling book is important to learning to read. Oh, and Bernhard's posts: https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,12590.0.html
A tweet thread [1] from @realscientists (a Twitter account authored by a different active scientist each week) supports this point:
"People think math and coding are skills u r born with. ok there r prodigies out there. but most talented folks just work rly hard at it." -@realscientists
Replying to @realscientists "@realscientists Being good at math/coding usually coincides with it being fun." -@JesperEs
Replying to @JesperEs "@jesperes yep. Or useful... I hated coding in undergrad. Then forced to solve problems using code during my masters. Ended up loving it." -@realscientists
Finding a piece that you love or badly want to learn will allow you to put in the hard work needed to learn it and you'll progress in skill at the piano in the process.
[1] https://twitter.com/realscientists/status/369468586365968385
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#10It should be noted that there is a great Linux clone of Synthesia (which is awesome, btw!): http://linthesia.sourceforge.net EDIT: I wouldn't necessarily agree that learning a piece with [Syn,Lin]thesia means you don't gain any theory - its really a matter of picking your piece. Learn some great theory by loading it up with a Debussy! Screenshots here: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/linthesia
I started studying piano as child (music theory also), and still do 15-20 years later.
I cannot, at all, play from something like synthesia. I need partitions. I wonder why.