Learn To Play Piano - Let The Train Station Teach You About
Piano Playing
Learn to play piano on a train station? Let me show you what you
can learn about piano playing as you wait for your train!
Well, all people seem to go by car these days but we might have
had the privilege to go by train and this experience can teach
us a lot about piano playing:
1. You want to go somewhere by train. In piano playing this is
the wish you have to learn something on the piano.
2. You go to the train station trying to find a suitable train.
Before you can know if you are taking the right train you have
to decide where you want to go. When learning to play the piano
this is the goal you want to reach.
3. Before buying a ticket to the right train you have to decide
when you want to arrive. When you learn to play piano this means
when your goal is to be accomplished.
4. When you know these things it is much easier to find the
right train. In piano playing this means that when you know what
you want to accomplish as a pianist and when you want to have
accomplished it it is much easier to select a proper method to
use to reach your goal.
5. Now you can buy a ticket to the right train. This is when
your decision becomes a commitment. Learning to play the piano
can involve money but the most important investment is your work
and motivation. Through a commitment you gain momentum to
accomplish the piano playing goal.
6. After having bought a ticket most of the job is done. Left is
only to find your train and your seat and then relax. In your
piano playing this means that when you have decided what you
really want to accomplish it is much easier to progress. You
know where you are in your piano skills, where to begin your
work and you don't have to waste your energi by wondering what
to do.
Do you have to take the right train?
Some unusual people might think it is okay to take any train and
travel for the fun of it with no thought about the destination.
If you feel that way about your piano playing and are
comfortable with it it's okay I guess.
Let me share some thoughts...
The reason why I started to be very interested in computers way
back in the late 80's was because of what I believed that
computers could help me with. I was very interested in composing
music and had used pen and paper so far.
I tried to write nice sheets with music but it took a lot of
time and if I wanted to change something in my compositions,
which I often wanted then and even now, it was difficult.
The notation programs back then were difficult to use but I
perused the manuals because I had this great goal before me that
computers and notation programs could help me with my creative
endeavors.
The goal was actually to compose music and the means was
computers and notation programs.
Computers have become much easier to use and notation programs
more sophisticated since then and I feel that I have reached the
goal to become more effective as a composer through the use of
computers as a means for my music composing.
Some of my friends have used computers the opposite way. They
have been interested in computers and have aimlessly installed
and uninstalled programs and changed os or messed around in the
Windows directory and so on.
I guess we could say that their goal was to have fun with
computers, even if they haven't expressed it that way, and I
think they also reach their goal.
What I wanted to say with this is that it is much easier to
select methods to use and to be really motivated when you learn
to play the piano if you know what you want to accomplish.
Take the right train and enjoy your journey into piano land!