PIANO LESSONS ONLINE
A guide to beginner music lessons compiled by a professional pianist.
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Learning to play the piano is a hallmark of many people's childhood. The benefits of piano lessons for children goes beyond music education: Learning to play the piano, and the study of music in general, engages both hemispheres of the brain. The benefits of this learned skill carry on through adulthood. Music education involves both art and math. Playing the piano improves fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in children. There are the more abstract, less tangible results of music lessons as well; playing the piano well adds beauty to the world. The piano is an ideal first instrument for children to learn. The keyboard is easier to master, initially, than some other musical instruments. For example, wind instruments like the flute involve learning the proper method of blowing across the head joint's mouth hole, while string instruments like the violin entail learning to play the right note, no other strings, and with the correct amount of bow speed and pressure. For these and several other reasons, the piano is typically recommended for children who are interested in learning to play a musical instrument.
Have you ever listened to two kids arguing? Both are talking, neither one is listening, and nothing really gets communicated.
| This Guide is made to take people with no music experience all the way through college level reading. I highly approve any of these programs to fit your needs as a student ready to learn.  I remember when my early piano lessons were a bit like a self defense class. The main challenge was not to get struck on the knuckles by the terrifying Tyrannosaurus Rex teacher. Actually, my early piano teachers weren’t quite that vicious, and old school training certainly had its pluses and minuses. However, today’s students have more options. The Internet has brought a world of wonderful online piano lesson resources right to your home computer.
Music training at an early age, specifically piano instruction, can pay off. A recent study of 78 preschoolers found that learning to play the piano enhances the abstract-reasoning skills needed for learning math and science.
The children in the study were divided into four groups: The first received piano keyboard lessons; the second, group-singing lessons; the third, computer lessons; and the fourth, no training. The children who were taught piano performed 34 percent higher on "thinking" tasks, such as puzzle solving, than the children in the other groups. "Music, much like math and science, has a definite structure and clear patterns," says Gordon Shaw, Ph.D., professor of physics at the University of California at Irvine and a coauthor of the study. "Music lessons at a young age may help train a child's brain for certain higher cognitive functions later on." How much should I practice my piano lessons?
Here's one of the most common questions students ask early on in their piano lessons. Of course, everyone is different, but here's a few rules of thumb: Musical "Dry Spells" Once you really dig in and begin to practice, you'll go through phases when it seems like you're improving every day. Then there are times when you seem to go through “dry times when it seems like you just aren't improving no matter how much you practice your piano lessons.
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