Piano practice can be fun too!
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Pianoforall is one of the most popular and respected piano courses on the web. Online since 2006 it is always amongst the first choices of anyone wanting to learn piano.
Main Features:
- All-in-one package. Ebooks, Videos and audios
- Works with all devices – PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android tablets and phones
- All styles of piano covered – pop, blues, jazz, ballads, improvisation, classical.
- Play-by-ear and learn to read music at the same time
- Filled with tricks, tips and formulas to help people sound great right from the start
- Easy to follow yet comprehensive
- 10 clearly laid out ebooks – 600 pages in total
200 videos – over 10 hours in total
500 audio lessons - The video and audio can be accessed right on the page you are viewing so you don’t have to open separate programmers
- Instant download or delivered anywhere in the world on a DVD ROM
- The website is verified by VERISIGN so you know your payments are totally secure
- Great Testimonials means Great conversions
- Piano for all converts well because people trust that the course will deliver. The course has probably the best testimonials of ALL the online piano courses. What sets Piano for all’s testimonials apart is that they are VERIFIABLE – potential students can request email addresses and talk to that person to find out for themselves if piano for all delivers.
So, first thing we need to do is to see our piano practice in a new light. See it as a way of accelerating the learning process so that SOON you’ll be able to ‘play’ piano and play it well. If you don’t practice and you just play old familiar tunes you move rather slowly. Yes, you’ll get better at playing those old familiar tunes but technically you won’t be pushing yourself to greater heights.
Proper, structured piano practice helps you stride forwards. I say ‘proper’ because a lot of people have an idea that practice IS just playing songs over and over. Practice needs to involve unchartered territory. The golden rule is – ‘practice what you CAN’T play, not what you CAN play’.
First of all, work out what you want to achieve. Do you just want to know all your chords without thinking about how they are formed – then work out a practice routine that leads to that goal. Maybe you want to learn about inversions or chord substitution – again, make the practice fit the goal.
Split your practice session into two halves. In the first half play the difficult stuff – your mind is sharper to begin with – then reward yourself with some enjoyable but reasonably difficult tunes. Make sure you are comfortable. Many a bad back has happened because of a bad piano stool at the wrong height. Make sure your piano is in tune. If you don’t have a good piano and are serious about learning GO BUY A GOOD ONE.
Every fifteen minutes stretch your arms and shoulders and roll your neck to combat stiffness. Check out some Yoga exercises for shoulders and back.
Now and then, practice with your eyes closed – or don’t look at the keys – this really sharpens you up. Organize your life so that practice is possible (this where Mindfulness comes in). Too many people think they don’t have time to practice when really they just haven’t found the time. How long should you practice – that’s up to what you want to achieve. You don’t have to be a concert pianist. Even if you just play for yourself just enjoy that. The archer who’s mind is on the prize cannot stay focused on the target. Accept the bad days when it seems like you can’t play a note. Sometimes it’s better to walk away. So remember that ‘playing’ piano and ‘practicing’ piano are different. Which do you do? Aim for a bit of both.
If you are buying a piano it is preferable to buy an overstrung piano not a straight strung! How to tell: Lift the top lid of the piano you should see the tuning pins at the top of the piano. If the tuning pins are evenly spaced along the pin block and the strings are all parallel and vertical this is a straight strung piano. If there is a group of tuning pins at the left and a separate group at the right and the strings cross over in a X shape this is an overstrung piano. Also get a tuner to check it out. I bought a piano once that needed to have the wood treated because all the pins (that tighten the strings) were coming loose very quickly after being tuned – disaster!
Get a keyboard with at least 61 keys – anything less and you will be craving for more keys after a few days. Also make sure get a sustain pedal, a keyboard is absolutely a dead thing without one. Without a sustain pedal as soon as you lift your finger off a key the sound stops dead – with a piano at least the strings vibrate for a second or two – the difference is quite noticeable.
The Perfect Solution
to your needs
Many piano methods teach you how to play very old traditional tunes because they are free from copyright. I HATE that! Who wants to play (or listen to) a plonk plonk version of ‘Oh Suzanna’?
Other methods focus on just one style of playing – and you basically learn how to play a dozen or so tunes and that’s it – end of story – and you have to pay for another method to learn more.
Pianoforall lays a FOUNDATION that can be applied in ANY direction and any musical style. When you learned how to read and write you didn’t just learn other people’s sentences – you learned the alphabet so that you could construct your OWN sentences. Pianoforall gives you the tools to play whatever style you want.
You get to sound like a Pro right from the start
Pianoforall has been specifically designed so that you CAN achieve a professional sound within DAYS – you can be the life and soul of the party before you know it. You then become HIGHLY motivated to learn more and this is the most effective way to learn.
The way self taught musicians learned Piano or Keyboard
I guarantee you – most of your favourite self taught Pianists or Keyboard players used EXACTLY the same techniques, secrets, formulas and ‘bluffs’ outlined in Pianoforall.
Some other methods leave you wanting more within days
Pianoforall is like a great film where the more you see it the more you discover in it. Even though you learn great Piano within days there is so much in Pianoforall it will serve you well for years.
Perfect blend of fun and expert knowledge
Pianoforall is the king of step by step methods. Every single exercise leads seamlessly into the next so that as you progress you never feel out of your depth. Pianoforall also shows you ESSENTIAL techniques that other methods leave out because they don’t look to your future learning needs.
You learn how to read music with no effort
Pianoforall uses a unique combination of Keyboard Diagrams, Musical Notation, Audio and Video so that you learn by a process of ‘Visual Association’ – in other words you learn it FIRST using Keyboard Diagrams, Audio and Video and then you see what it looks like in musical notation – and your brain locks the two together. No other course has this!
Sight reading sheet music is ESSENTIAL for your future learning because it opens a vast realm of musical knowledge for you to draw upon. Because Pianoforall teaches you how to Play By Ear AND sight read sheet music you will learn so much more and at a far greater pace.
