If you’ve just started playing, you’ll want to stick to the music from the ‘Early Beginner’ list. I see Bartók’s Mikrokosmos as the prime book for beginning students. It teaches much of what you’ll have to learn in order to get a strong foundation in piano playing.
It’s important to have a good instrument at your disposal if you want to learn to play the piano. Daily practice is paramount to improving and practicing on a good instrument will make all the difference.
When you practice in the way described above, you’ll find that the amount of days that you practice a piece of music is more important than the absolute amount of time you put into that piece. By putting in 10 minutes a day for three weeks, you can learn a piece of music that’s appropriate for your level.
If you were to practice the same piece for an hour every day, I can absolutely guarantee your end-result after 3.5 hours of practice will not turn out nearly as good. Keep your eyes on the score as you play. I have not yet touched on this, but it’s paramount.
Start every piece slowly and work up. The most efficient way to learn a piece of music, is to play it right from the very first day. You reinforce the right notes from the very beginning. Furthermore, by practicing slowly you practice being in control.
Of course, there are only so many of these 20 minute sessions you can fit into a day before your brain needs sleep. Sleep is the best way to improve at playing. I’ll repeat, sleep is the best way to improve. Find your own limits, learn to listen to your body and brain, and act accordingly.
The key thing about metronome practice is that it allows you to practice being in control. It’s also to refrain you from speeding up . It’s very tempting to speed up, but believe me when I say that starting (painfully) slowly is the best way to reap long-term benefits.
Therefore, it’s important to learn music that is of an appropriate level. Challenging, but not overwhelming. Some new concepts to learn, but mainly previously learned concepts to reinforce. You don’t just improve as a player by learning new things; reinforcing previously learned things is just as important. I’ve made a fairly detailed list of material for beginners all the way to an intermediate level. I continually update this list, so it may not be a bad idea to bookmark it. A lot of classical music can be found for free on www.imslp.org.
If you don’t have the money to spare, there’s Bill Hilton’s Piano for Beginners. Not as good as Westenra’s courses, not as thorough, but it’s free. I do recommend against going past video 10, though, as the music that he suggests you try to learn isn’t suited for the absolute beginner.
Unless it’s simply way too hard for you at this moment, it’ll be nothing that dedicated metronome practice can’t fix. I said earlier that it’s of the utmost importance to look at the score as you practice, but for these problematic spots it’s okay to look at your hands. It’s something I’d even recommend. Seeing what’s going on can help tremendously. It helps in finding out exactly what makes this spot problematic.
Each of 88 notes of an acoustic piano has not only a different pitch but also a unique tonal character, which changes depending on how hard or soft the keys are struck (dynamics).
In total, the FP-30 has 35 built-in instrument sounds: 3 Grand Pianos, Ragtime Piano. 3 Electric Pianos. 4 Organs (Jazz, Church) 3 Strings.
The thing is that most of Roland digital pianos are tuned using stretched tuning, which makes higher-end notes slightly higher in pitch and low-end notes slightly lower.
Most digital pianos offer 3 preset sensitivity settings to choose from. The FP-30 has 5 of them so that you can tailor the touch sensitivity more precisely. There are Super Heavy, Heavy, Medium, Light, Super Light or Fixed touch sensitivity settings available.
Today we’ll be reviewing one of Roland’s most popular portable digital pianos, the Roland FP-30. The FP-30 is the latest “intermediate” addition to the FP-seires, which is known for its compact yet powerful keyboards suitable for home as well as stage use. Moreover, the FP-30 it’s one of the few Roland digital pianos that you can buy for ...
For example, you can layer a piano sound with strings or electric piano with harpsichord, etc. For each of the modes, you can adjust the Mix (volume) balance to make one instrument sound more prominent than the other. Another useful Mode available on the FP-30 is called Twin Piano (Duet Play).
Indeed, the FP-30 is a very compact digital piano, which , if needed, can be put on a desk or a table without a problem.