Use Your Time Wisely Learning How to Play the Piano
April 4th, 2010
Have you ever thought what it’s like to just sit down at a piano and start playing music on demand? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a world famous keyboard player like Rick Wakeman or Keith Emerson? Do you say, I would love to learn but I don’t have the time? You’re not on your own.
People have legitimate concerns, which stop them making that all important decision to start learning to play the piano. Yes you want to be a great pianist but negative thoughts creep in to your head like will it be to hard to learn to play a piano. You have to be positive, if you want to learn to play the piano, do it. There’s no magic wand, the more you practice on the piano the better you will be.
Money, time and patience will be needed when starting to learn how to play the piano. You will need to set up an ongoing budget for piano lessons and teachers and of course, you have to buy a piano or keyboard. You might also be able to find a try before you buy scheme. Lots of high quality pianos and keyboards are available that will easily fit your budget. A good piano that is tuned correctly will provide more pleasure when playing it.
The next stage after you have bought a piano is to find a good piano teacher. There are many learning and teaching styles, although they all ultimately teach you to play the piano, you may want to go in one direction, for instance gospel music instead of classical music.
When you start learning to play the piano is not going to give you immediate results, it’s something you do an a daily basis, its best to integrate piano lessons and practice in to your daily life so you play the piano every day without giving it a second thought. Some days you will want to give it up and other days you’ll be glad you started. Organising your time will get considerably easier as you advance with the help of your Piano lessons.
There will also be an improvement in what I call background benefits, these are not immediately noticeable and include recognising music patterns, coordination and memory, and you may not notice the improvement at first but believe me it’s happening in the background. Finally, after all your practice and hard work you can show people, maybe your family to start with what a great player you are.
The secret to learning the piano is not giving up, it’s not going to be too long before you start to see and hear results. I you cant immediately find a piano teacher you can still learn to play the piano online, there are many websites that provide piano learning software that will help you learn the piano. Piano software courses are fantastic value for money, many of these courses are bundled with videos and audio files, which can help you to learn to play the piano.
Mike Shaw
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April 4th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
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Nine year old Junior comes home from school one day and his mother asks what he learned. "Oh, mom," said Junior, "I learned how to **** today!" Mom is furious and sends him to his room explaining that he has to wait till his father gets home. Well, dad gets home about an hour later and is met by his irate wife. "Go talk to YOUR son!" she demands.
Dad goes up and finds his son sitting on the bed and asks what had happened. "Dad, all I told her is that I learned to **** today," says Junior. "That’s my boy!!!!!" dad blurts out, but after thinking a moment he says, "Well, your mom is really upset about this, so I’m gonna have to ground you for a week. But, I see you’re following in your father’s footsteps. I’m quite proud of you."
The next day at the construction site, dad is bragging to all his co-workers about his nine year old son getting laid. "A chip off the old block!" he beams . "Of course, I didn’t start till I was ten, but he’s already becoming a man!!"
Dad comes home from work that night, proud as can be, barely kisses the wife’s cheek as he rushes up to his son’s room. "Well, son," he asks, "did you do it again today???"
"Oh, no!" exclaims Junior, "my butt still hurts from yesterday!"
A blonde had just gotten a new sports car and was out for a drive when she cut off a truck driver. He motioned for her to pull over. When she did, he got out of his truck and pulled a piece of chalk from his pocket. He drew a circle on the road and told the blonde to stand in the circle and not move.
He then went to her car and cut up her leather seats.
When he turned around she had a slight grin on her face, so he said, "Oh, you think that’s funny? Watch this." He gets a baseball bat out of his truck and breaks every window in her car. When he turns and looks at her she has a smile on her face. He is getting really mad.
He gets his knife back out and slices all her tires. Now she’s laughing. The truck driver is really starting to lose it. He goes back to his truck and gets a can of gas, pours it on her car and sets it on fire. He turns around and she is laughing so hard she is about to fall down.
"What’s so funny?" The truck driver asked the blonde.
She replied, "When you weren’t looking, I stepped outside the circle 4 times."
One slow night, a man walks into a bar with a paper bag in his hand.
He sits at the bar and asks the bartender for a beer and then proceeds to open the brown bag. As he opens it, a tiny man about a foot tall walks out pulling a baby grand piano on wheels that is proportionate to his size. The little man starts playing his piano and the music coming forth is exquisite. Meanwhile, the bartender is completely flabbergasted at what he is seeing and asks the life-sized man at the bar where the heck this little man came from?! "Well," the man replied, "I found an old oil lamp lying on the street just short of an hour ago and when I went to clean off the dust by rubbing the lamp, poof! out came a genie who offered me just ONE wish as a way of expressing his gratitude for releasing him from the lamp. He said to choose wisely and of course could not ask for more wishes, although I would be allowed to give one person I knew the gift of one wish also," The bartender was amazed at the man’s story but believed him. "Who are you going to give the other question to?" he asked the man. "If you remember" the man answered, "I only have an hour to give it away and I have tried to reach my wife, my son, my best friend and they all must be out since I cannot reach anyone." The bartender, knowing an opportunity when he saw one asked the man then if he might be the recipient since time was running out and it would be a shame to let the free wish go. "Sure" said the man, " go ahead but first I have to say out loud that I hereby grant you the extra wish, and then you must close your eyes and ask three times "Genie, please grant me the wish of __________. "
Within 5 minutes the bar started to fill up by a barrage of ducks who just kept on coming and coming and coming into the bar, quacking loudly, flapping their wings, running aimlessly through the bar creating havoc since there were so many of the ducks.
"OMG" screamed the bartender over the noise. "Your genie must have a hearing problem since I asked for a million BUCKS and not ducks!"
"No foolin’" answered the man. "You don’t really think I asked for a
12-inch PIANIST, now do you ??!"
3 Men were waiting to go to heaven. St Peter was at the gate and said, "However good you were to your wife that is the vehicle you will get in heaven".
The first guy comes up to the gate and says, "I never, ever cheated on my wife and I love her". So St. Peter gives him a Rolls Royce.
The next man comes up and says, "I cheated on my wife a little but I stilll love her." He gets a mustang and drives off into heaven.
The next guy came up and said, "I cheated on my wife alot". He gets a scooter.
Next day the guy that got the scoot
April 5th, 2010 at 2:24 am
Lol.. The blonde one still has me laughing.
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April 5th, 2010 at 2:26 am
The only funny was, the one about the little boy being "gay"… lol
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April 5th, 2010 at 2:28 am
what happened at the end??
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April 5th, 2010 at 2:30 am
First one: meh…
Second one: almost fell off my chair…
Third one: hilarious
Fourth one: got cut off…but i think ive heard it before
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April 5th, 2010 at 2:32 am
Oh My God! Those were absolutely hilarious! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!!!.
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April 5th, 2010 at 2:34 am
I like the third one-star……
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