By A. Ferri
Who hasn’t heard a piano with admiration? and how many of those admiring a piano melody ever wished they could play this famous instrument as good as the performer. The piano is widely used in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment in a number of genres.
It is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal. Though piano is not portable and it’s often expensive, it’s versatility and ubiquity has made of it one of the most familiar of all musical instruments.
Among the greatest performers we can find; Haydn, the immortals Mozart and Beethoven and Romantic composers such as Listz, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms. Of course piano is not only played in classical music. This instrument has a great versatility that allows it to be played in a number of diverse genres as jazz and pop music.
Of course the personalities mentioned above belong to those ne in a life time performers. But you don’t need to be one of them to play piano well where ever you want. At home or somewhere public. You just need to have the discipline and right techniques to learn the basics and build over them. To learn to play piano is not an impossible task for any one. It’s something that is perfectly doable and attainable for you.
Many experts day that he best way to learn piano is to look for someone who will teach you “piano fluency”. This is finding a method that will train you to use your ear to bring you to the stage where you can play virtually any piano song that you hear. Making the playing of the piano a natural performance of your senses.
Private piano lessons can cost $30 an hour and more. Imagine if you did not need a piano tutor at all, how much would you save?
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Learn To Play Piano: A Digital Or An Acoustic Piano?
By Peter Edvinsson
Since 1993, the role of contemporary worship in Christian churches has increased. Those churches have also seen increased growth rates and, as a result, increased expenses -- from bigger halls to video projectors to instruments. The cost of offering a contemporary worship service can put a strain on the church's purse strings. It's important to use resources wisely and get the most "bang" for the church's bucks.
If I have to choose between buying an acoustic piano or a digital piano what is the best choice? let's take a look at the different choices if you want to learn to play piano.
Personally I haven't been forced to make the decision between buying a normal upright piano and a digital piano as I have both in my home. I can see advantages in both types of pianos when practicing the art of learning to play piano.
A normal upright piano produces sounds with hammers that strikes the strings. A digital piano on the other hand tries to duplicate the feeling of playing an acoustic piano.
Most people are familiar with the normal upright piano but what advantages has a digital piano?
First let us describe a digital piano.
A digital piano consists of a keyboard with weighted key action, sensors that detect the velocity when you play the keys and a set of sounds you can choose from. To make it possible to listen to the piano when you play you have an amplifier and loudspeakers and headphone jacks.
Here are some advantages with a digital piano:
1. A digital piano doesn't need to be tuned. A normal acoustic piano you should tune once or twice a year. If you can't tune a piano yourself you have to turn to a piano tuner. It can be quite expensive of course. Even a piano tuner has to pay his bills.
2. You can practice silently. A digital piano usually has a headphone jack so by using headphones you can practise as much as you want without disturbing neighbours or family members.
3. Midi interface. A digital piano usually has a midi interface which makes it possible to connect your piano to a computer and use music software like notation programs or a sequenser program or a software synthesizer.
What then are the disadvantages of having a digital piano?
1. The sounds in an acoustic piano are produced by strings vibrating and the different pitches interact in ways that you cannot copy on a digital piano. The sound quality of the sounds produced by digital pianos are becoming better and better but it is still a completely different way of producing sounds.
2. A digital piano is limited when it comes to producing different tone colors by different ways of playing. An accomplished pianist might feel limited by the sampled sounds.
There are many more things to say about choosing a piano but this is a beginning.
As you can see it is not so easy to decide what's best for you. If you can't decide what type of piano to buy you can do as I have done. Have both types of pianos and keep smiling.
Peter Edvinsson is a musician, composer and music teacher. Visit his site Capotasto Music and download your free sheet music and learn to play piano resources at http://www.capotastomusic.com
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Since 1993, the role of contemporary worship in Christian churches has increased. Those churches have also seen increased growth rates and, as a result, increased expenses -- from bigger halls to video projectors to instruments. The cost of offering a contemporary worship service can put a strain on the church's purse strings. It's important to use resources wisely and get the most "bang" for the church's bucks.
If I have to choose between buying an acoustic piano or a digital piano what is the best choice? let's take a look at the different choices if you want to learn to play piano.
Personally I haven't been forced to make the decision between buying a normal upright piano and a digital piano as I have both in my home. I can see advantages in both types of pianos when practicing the art of learning to play piano.
A normal upright piano produces sounds with hammers that strikes the strings. A digital piano on the other hand tries to duplicate the feeling of playing an acoustic piano.
Most people are familiar with the normal upright piano but what advantages has a digital piano?
First let us describe a digital piano.
A digital piano consists of a keyboard with weighted key action, sensors that detect the velocity when you play the keys and a set of sounds you can choose from. To make it possible to listen to the piano when you play you have an amplifier and loudspeakers and headphone jacks.
Here are some advantages with a digital piano:
1. A digital piano doesn't need to be tuned. A normal acoustic piano you should tune once or twice a year. If you can't tune a piano yourself you have to turn to a piano tuner. It can be quite expensive of course. Even a piano tuner has to pay his bills.
2. You can practice silently. A digital piano usually has a headphone jack so by using headphones you can practise as much as you want without disturbing neighbours or family members.
3. Midi interface. A digital piano usually has a midi interface which makes it possible to connect your piano to a computer and use music software like notation programs or a sequenser program or a software synthesizer.
What then are the disadvantages of having a digital piano?
1. The sounds in an acoustic piano are produced by strings vibrating and the different pitches interact in ways that you cannot copy on a digital piano. The sound quality of the sounds produced by digital pianos are becoming better and better but it is still a completely different way of producing sounds.
2. A digital piano is limited when it comes to producing different tone colors by different ways of playing. An accomplished pianist might feel limited by the sampled sounds.
There are many more things to say about choosing a piano but this is a beginning.
As you can see it is not so easy to decide what's best for you. If you can't decide what type of piano to buy you can do as I have done. Have both types of pianos and keep smiling.
Peter Edvinsson is a musician, composer and music teacher. Visit his site Capotasto Music and download your free sheet music and learn to play piano resources at http://www.capotastomusic.com
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