Eight out of ten people wish they could learn piano. I'll give you the practical steps necessary to learn piano. It's up to you to carry them out. Learning piano has nothing to do with your fingers: it's all in your mind.
Resolve to play the piano five minutes a day.
Discard any expectations you may have had.
Find what your "learning speed limit" is: don't exceed it or you'll become fatigued.
Look at all the piano methods you can. If it is not IMMEDIATELY understandable to you, discard it and try another piano method until you find one that works for you.
Find a piano teacher you like and try piano lessons with them. If you don't like them, quit and
find another. Keep quitting until you find one that suits you. Listen to what you feel: if it feels boring, it is boring. Find a piano teacher that excites you, who makes you want to play.
Make sure you know what style of music you want to play. Don't say "everything." Life is too short to learn it all.
Buy a simple, inexpensive instrument until you know how you feel about it.
Listen to the best pianists playing in the style you want to learn. Listen more. Listen to everything. Develop the habit of unearthing the recordings that make you happy. Listen to the people you want to sound like.
Give in to the fact that you have to repeat songs endlessly until your hands start to play them by themselves. Do what I do at times: put a DVD player by the piano, play your favorite comedies softly, and repeat the song you want to play.
The first step is the most important: resolve to play the piano five minutes a day.
by John Aschenbrenner Copyright 2000 Walden Pond Press
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