so let's explain a bit first:

 

- i'm starting to play the piano ( starting off with a keyboard ) but i have no idea of how to play notes. but i kinda found a solution: i've downloaded a free software program : Click Musical keys piano ( for those who are interested : http://rapidshare.com/files/17063798/clickmusicalkeys.zip.html ) and it looks like this:

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with this program you can , by pressing keys on your pc keyboard, play (amateuristic) piano.

 

what i do is, i watch some videos of people playing songs and i just take over the movemens and i kinda helps me. i figured out how to play clocks and speed of sound on it. but those are the only two songs.

 

so i am asking you musical wonders to please help me so i can play some more songs ( coldplay songs preferably of course:laugh3: ) . you could just send me the letter combination you use on the program and you' ll make me one happy person. i knwo this sounds stupid, but it kinda helps me to play the piano.

 

friendly greetings

and thanks in advance

Step one would to get a real electric piano. You're not going to get anywhere playing with tiny keys, it'll fuck you over if you ever try to play real piano.

or hire a piano. :)

But this isn't going to work i'm affraid.

definitely save up before you get any further. get the piano. if you can't get yourself to commit to that, then don't even bother with the rest. just my opinion.

 

i never taught myself piano...i had instructors and everything, but if you were gonna learn on your own, i suggest googling how to read notes and some theory. if you've played any other instrument then this will all come very easily. if not, then it's gonna take a while. once you can read notes with confidence...then i suggest going back to these boards and searching up the sheet music you want. but it's gonna take a while. i hope you're patient.

I agree you should have a keyboard with full-sized keys. You're training the muscles in your hands to assume certain positions and do certain things, and moving from mini-keys to full-size will change everything you've learned.

 

I have a combination of classical training and self-teaching, and the theory is important in the beginning. Even just a little goes along way. It's easier to learn music if you know a little about how music works.

 

There used to be a book called 'The Rudiments Of Music' available. It's a good 'user-friendly' guide to music and theory, and you can work through it at your own pace. Worth looking for.

 

Hope that helps. GOOD LUCK!:D

hey i also started to play piano some months ago.

so would you like to have sth like this F-F-G-B-E-CC (just example)?

 

i know at the moment you just want to play some melodies, but also if it sounds unbelievable to you at the moment, someday you will want to play a complete song and not only some melodies. so try to learn how to read notes. look in the internet (youtube: "how to play piano") or take a teacher

 

good luck

Gotta agree with the other quotes defo try get the real thing to learn on especially playing chords, cos that keyboard thing is just good maybe for one note stuff. But i know how you feel when you wanna play and you aint got a keyboard to play on, so try these notes on that program, also use the elec keyboard on it cos the notes linger, for a better sound. Anyways heres the Clocks riff on your computer keyboard; 7 4 w 7 4 w 7 4 6 4 q 6 4 q 6 4 6 4 q 6 4 q 6 4 t 3 q t 3 q t 3 Then Repeat. Looks harder than what it is. Enjoy

Gotta agree with the other quotes defo try get the real thing to learn on especially playing chords, cos that keyboard thing is just good maybe for one note stuff. But i know how you feel when you wanna play and you aint got a keyboard to play on, so try these notes on that program, also use the elec keyboard on it cos the notes linger, for a better sound. Anyways heres the Clocks riff on your computer keyboard; 7 4 w 7 4 w 7 4 6 4 q 6 4 q 6 4 6 4 q 6 4 q 6 4 t 3 q t 3 q t 3 Then Repeat. Looks harder than what it is. Enjoy:-)

definitely not the best thing to learn off of...

 

but hell... THIS IS COOL! *begins playing various tunes*:D

I have a keyboard but my teacher has a piano so at home I play a song awesomaly and I think I'm gonna blow him away with my skill lol (rrrright if that's what you call it) and I get there and I suck lol it's a totally different feel. but I really wanna get me a piano a beautiful black sexy one, except I have no room for it and can't afford one right now.....but when I do I'm gonna ruin it by having a bright green = sign on it haha........

.....but when I do I'm gonna ruin it by having a bright green = sign on it haha........

 

 

it may be too late for one of us... :)

definitely save up before you get any further. get the piano. if you can't get yourself to commit to that, then don't even bother with the rest. just my opinion.

 

i never taught myself piano...i had instructors and everything, but if you were gonna learn on your own, i suggest googling how to read notes and some theory. if you've played any other instrument then this will all come very easily. if not, then it's gonna take a while. once you can read notes with confidence...then i suggest going back to these boards and searching up the sheet music you want. but it's gonna take a while. i hope you're patient.

 

Yes definitely easier if you've played an instrument prior to learning piano. I've been teaching myself guitar for the past five years and it wasn't easy starting off. But about two years ago when I first sat down in front of a piano it was easy to adapt to chord progressions, rhythm, and the basics. Of course its probably better to learn to read sheet but sometimes its good to try and figure things out for yourself so you can broaden your musical capabilities and train your ears hear the different aspects of music.