Wish to learn play a piano

[Arlekino]

Please serious question for musicians. I bought cheap electrical keyboard and I trying to learn play piano, I have no musical experience. My learning abilities are to teach myself online and on youtube, which is quite difficult to understand for the moment. I hope in the future maybe will be able to play some simple notes. Do you think I wasting my time. Well I am not musician as we heard "musicians have to be naturally talented". Which I am of course not. Bare in mind I loving classical music. Good advice would be many thanks.

[Art Vandelay]

I'm currently teaching myself to play piano as well. Can't really do much more than mess around on it at the moment, but the lay out of the keys and progression of scales is making sense to me. It probably does help having a background in other instruments and I know that has made it less daunting. I don't think you are wasting your time at all and if its something you are interested in, you should go for it. The key with any instrument is to simply be persistent. I taught myself to play guitar growing up and while it would have probably been easier to have someone teach me, the trial and error approach works as well. Youtube is a pretty good resource (at least I remember it being for guitar), or you could go to a music shop and pick up a couple piano music books and work your way through them. I'll come back and post any links I come across that I find useful. Sorry I couldn't be more help, I'm still early on in the process as well, but good luck.

[Arlekino]

I'm currently teaching myself to play piano as well. Can't really do much more than mess around on it at the moment, but the lay out of the keys and progression of scales is making sense to me. It probably does help having a background in other instruments and I know that has made it less daunting. I don't think you are wasting your time at all and if its something you are interested in you should go for it. The key with any instrument is to simply be persistent. I taught myself to play guitar growing up and while it would have probably been easier to have someone teach me, but the trial and error approach works as well. Youtube is a pretty good resource (at least I remember it being for guitar), or you could go to a music shop and pick up a couple piano music books and work your way through them. I'll come back and post any links I come across that I find useful. Sorry I couldn't be more help, I'm still early on in the process as well, but good luck.
Oh good one thanks, yes Youtube is very good, I borough learning how to play piano for beginners book from library so I am trying to read as well from book and youtube taking slowly practising for the moment I am only in the second lesson on youtube but still need to learn more about the notes. Thanks and I have great pleasure to learn this and my family so support me.

[Leftsolidarity]

That's great, piano is really a key to learning tons of other instruments as well. I play an assortment of instruments (not much piano though) and no one starts off knowing what they're doing. It takes lotsssss of time and even more so with something like piano.

I'd suggest learning the lay out of the notes (cdefgabc) so you can start doing different scales. From there I'd try to learn basic chords (are they called chords on piano?) and simple progressions. That should give you some of the fundamentals of creating stuff yourself to mess around with and give you a better understanding of how songs you might want to learn work.

Do you know how to read sheet music?

[Arlekino]

That's great, piano is really a key to learning tons of other instruments as well. I play an assortment of instruments (not much piano though) and no one starts off knowing what they're doing. It takes lotsssss of time and even more so with something like piano.

I'd suggest learning the lay out of the notes (cdefgabc) so you can start doing different scales. From there I'd try to learn basic chords (are they called chords on piano?) and simple progressions. That should give you some of the fundamentals of creating stuff yourself to mess around with and give you a better understanding of how songs you might want to learn work.

Do you know how to read sheet music?

Not for the moment only pre- basic, like you mentioned CDEFGABC I know it, I can do few simple exercises with two hands, for the moment I am still learning notes and trying to memorise them. Ah i am almost 50 my brain is not that good now so I am doing slowly.:rolleyes:
Thanks

[Art Vandelay]

I'd suggest learning the lay out of the notes (cdefgabc) so you can start doing different scales. From there I'd try to learn basic chords (are they called chords on piano?) and simple progressions. That should give you some of the fundamentals of creating stuff yourself to mess around with and give you a better understanding of how songs you might want to learn work.

This is good advice and basically where I'm at right now. Once you got the lay out of the notes, its relatively simple to move onto your basic scales and then your understanding of how to form chords can follow pretty easily from that.