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If you have never experienced the fun and joy of improvising on the piano, then you are missing out on a great experience. Imagine an artist who does not know how to draw or paint without tracing or copying another’s work.

That is unheard of. Yet, many piano players lack the ability to improvise on the piano! This is caused by years of rigid piano lesson/structure and a lack of proper guidance.

Many piano players rely on sheet music to be able to play, which would be like an artist only copying another’s art work and never creating something unique. Improvisation is a fun process. It enables the pianist to bring out the latent potential of creativity and expression inside them.

One thing that will help any piano player to improve on the art of improvisation is to allow unstructured creative time during one’s piano practice hours.

Time to just sit down and make up music on the piano is crucial. No agenda, no structure, no goals to accomplish. This process is extremely important in the world of piano playing.

In order to allow the inner expression to come out, one needs to let it reveal itself. A good example of this is in how young children play piano. If you can observe a child learning the piano do so. Very often, young children are able to reach a creative and fun play “scheme” without any guidance at all. Similarly, any piano player should allow 15-30 minutes of “free play” without worrying about hitting the wrong notes.

Traditional Piano lessons emphasize the ability to read notes. Reading ability is no doubt one of the most important skills any piano player can possess. This emphasis, however, has created some “lopsided” players who can only play piano by reading. Eventually this type of player will lose their interest and passion for music.

Many young children drop out of piano lessons as a result of struggling with music reading. Children who are younger than 5 or 6 are discouraged from traditional piano lessons due to the fact that they cannot yet read musical notes properly.

Music is commonly referred to as a “language.” There are many ways of learning language. Young children master the language skill by frequently talking and interacting with their peers and care-takers as well as imitating other people. The ability to read comes a little later in their life. A similar approach needs to be taken to foster the love of piano music among young children. Sometimes by just allowing young children to make up music on the piano without placing emphasis on playing the correct notes can be just as important.

Yoke Wong
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Anyone that’s learning to play the piano knows that you only become proficient at a new skill with plenty of practice. A roll up piano is something that you might find useful in helping you master the art of playing the piano. Many people that take Piano lessons don’t have a piano at home due to the fact that a piano can be an expensive proposition. Owning a piano can also be difficult for some due to the space it takes up. This is where the roll up piano comes into play.

A roll up piano can fit into your purse and be played anywhere. It is battery operated and small but unrolls into a decent sized mat with regular sized keys, which can give you the practice you want with realistic sounds. These units typically run for under $100.00 and can be a great asset to someone who wants to practice in various locations or for someone who doesn’t own a piano at all and wants to practice outside their classroom.

A roll up piano can make a great gift, too. If you have someone in your life that is either a proficient player that doesn’t own one or someone interested in learning to play, this can be a thoughtful gift that’s much less expensive than buying a baby grand piano or even an electronic keyboard. Many people that have used these units rave about the quality that comes from them. They have great sound and many sound options such as organ, harpsichord, violin, trumpet, sax and more. This can be not only for the piano enthusiast but also for any music lover. A child or an adult would get a kick out of a great gift like the roll up piano.

Some other tips for learning to play piano better:

Pianists know that practice makes perfect. Here are a few tips to enhance your musical flair and be a better piano player:

· Always warm up before playing. Your fingers need to stretch and become nimble with your practice drills to help you play well. Even concert pianists know the value of a warm up.

· Play every day. If you play every day, you will become more proficient, quicker

· Learn music theory. The more time you spend learning the theory behind music such as reading music and tempos, the quicker you will be able to simply open up a music book and play whatever song you like.

· Use the Internet. The Internet has lots of free information including practice sheets, downloadable music and even online courses that can help you to become more talented at tickling the ivories.

With time and determination, just about anyone can learn a new skill. Whether you are a young child or an adult in your golden years, you can learn to master learning a new language, play a musical instrument or any other undertaking you are willing to put effort into and practice into.

Hunter Pyle
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For starters, why would you be looking for online blues guitar lessons in the first place?

Well, like many people you may have found that it is pretty easy to find guitar teachers within your local town or city, but finding someone who can help you to specifically learn blues guitar is much tougher.

Secondly paying for numerous one hour long lessons with a guitar tutor can be enormously expensive. Those individual lesson costs can soon mount up!

This is why many people just like you find themselves turning to a search online in their quest to learn blues guitar. This in itself can lead to hours or days of painful frustration when you find that there are a lot of sites out there that offer guitar lessons, but very few good sites that offer blues guitar lessons in particular.

Sometimes your online search will throw up some sites offering free blues guitar lessons, but you will find in general that you get what you pay for. They are free for a reason! Enough said.

If you want to learn how to play blues guitar quickly and effectively then you need to look for lessons that will teach you all the tricks of the blues guitar legends right from the start, so that tricks like ‘Tweedlies’, Hammer-ons’and ‘Pinch harmonics’, (guitar squeals), will become second nature to you and have your friends (audience) gasping at how quickly you’ve been able to play fantastic blues guitar solos.

After all, you’ll be wanting to be able to play some decent blues licks and be able to use sliding “harmony lines”, just like the Allmans do in ‘Stormy Monday’, as quickly as possible, won’t you?

Try to find a product or site that offers you video tutorials that you can easily watch and copy at your leisure. Look for a site that will have you playing killer blues guitar solos very quickly and if they also offer easy to understand scales and fingering patterns with lots of examples you can use, as well as MP3’s that you can listen to, then you are probably going to have all that you need to get started quickly.

Finding exactly the right online blues guitar lessons may take you some time, but can be more than worth the effort as it will potentially save you a fortune when compared to paying for hourly guitar lessons in the offline world.

Roy Carter
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Sometimes it was easy to make time to practice because I was in a good mood and I really wanted to play. At those times I could spend hours just listening to how cool it sounded when I changed from the chord D to the chord G. But on other days it was my discipline and desire to play and improve that made me practice and develop as a player.

There are two main factors when it comes to discipline in practice: practicing regularly and practicing well. Both of these are important to address.

Practicing regularly is the most obvious and easy to do. Basically you should play the guitar every day. These don’t need to be mammoth, three hour long sessions. 30 minutes will generally be fine if you are focused during that time. Doing regular, small amounts of practice is far better than going all out for hours once a week. I know that in a busy life it can be hard to make the time to practice but honestly 30 minutes a day is achievable for anyone. There is no set time that is best to practice but I prefer to do it in the evening simply because I find playing the guitar is a relaxing way to wind down after a stressful day.

Practicing badly is a more common and difficult to address problem. This is something that affects even the most experienced player. This problem has several causes and solutions.

• Playing the same thing over and over every time you play. I am a firm believer that you should play something perfectly before you move on. BUT, once you know how to play something you need to move on and keep challenging yourself.

• The opposite is also a problem: moving on too quickly. You should practice so that you play a piece well before you go on to the next thing. Playing perfectly and accurately is an excellent habit for any musicians to have.

• Not focusing on developing all parts of your musicianship when you are practicing. I like to split my playing into parts. For example I might spend 5 minutes practicing new scales or chords, 10 minutes working on writing new music for myself and maybe 15 minutes learning a new song or part of a song.

• Playing things too fast when you first try and learn them. This can cause you to become disillusioned with your playing when you are trying to learn a new song. Most guitarists, including myself try playing a song at a slow speed before trying it a fast pace.

Practicing properly and regularly is the best way to become good at anything including playing the guitar. This requires discipline. Not only discipline to practice regularly, but also discipline to stay focused and on track when you are practicing. If you stay disciplined with your playing you will develop in to an excellent player.

Learn acoustic guitar NOW With FREE ACOUSTIC LESSONS

michael
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In this lesson we teach you how to spice up those open or cowboy acoustic chords and really add some spice to your playing. Works with electric guitars also.

Many more lessons at:
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The songs are:
Iron Man – Black Sabbath
Smoke on the Water – Deep Purple
Highway to – AC/DC
On piano : Touch Me – The Doors

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You CAN learn how to play piano. All you’ve you need is the desire to learn piano. I’ll try giving you the info you need!

Also, check out my website and join the music community forums.

http://www.howtoplaypiano.ca

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