Ive been playing just under a year, never had a lesson, just taught myself, just wondering if anyone had any tips?

Especially for two hand playing, I can do a few songs with both hands but I still struggle a little, any tips?

It helps to learn the chords with the left hand and play melody with the right. As you progress you should try to play chords with your right and then play the baseline or the chord's root note in octaves with the left hand :nice:

Go on YouTube and look for tutorials of your favourite songs. Study them hard.

 

You'll naturally pick up the idea of how most songs are played. Then learn more, and more.

 

But most of all, enjoy it.

YouTube always has great lessons of famous songs, about the hand thing, try to learn first the left part, then the right, when you think you are alredy OK with both try to play it all together :)

Try playing difficult songs really slowly at first.

Thanks everyone, I've learnt quite a few songs and can do both parts (left part and right part) just struggle together haha

I really enjoy playing :D I'll keep practising

Counting out the beats helps to :wacko:

^ Yeah, use your feet, it helps :D

^ Yeah, use your feet, it helps :D

 

Unless you're me and clap in between breaks :awesome:

:lol:

Go on YouTube and look for tutorials of your favourite songs. Study them hard.

 

You'll naturally pick up the idea of how most songs are played. Then learn more, and more.

 

But most of all, enjoy it.

 

THIS. Youtube is every aspiring keyboard player's best friend. Look into synthesia. Start at the bottom and work your way up. As you progress you might even start working on your own material. Gradually start learning about what you're playing (and possibly writing) and why it sounds the way it does. The more you know, the better you'll get. Never think you're not good enough, because you're just starting out. Keep at it and at it and at it and you'll amaze yourself at how much natural talent you have. :)

Also it helps to learn music theory while your playing because it taught me how to read sheet music.

 

Even though I'm somewhat basic at sight reading (I can't read rhythms that well,) my teacher asked me to not only play keyboard last year for my school's musical, which out of the 30+ years of music experience she's ever done, that was the hardest score she's ever played :wreck: and now I'm in my orchestra class playing level 4 music when I can't read the damn rhythms :awesome:

 

It helps to branch out Molly :P

Helpful Hint: Try learning Clocks as well. That is a great song to get all the basics down :nod:

I can play clocks, the scientist, life in technicolor II, can kinda do lovers in Japan, every teardrop is a waterfall, paradise, yellow and fix you

They're the only Coldplay ones I can do but for some I can only do parts of the song :awesome:

I can play clocks, the scientist, life in technicolor II, can kinda do lovers in Japan, every teardrop is a waterfall, paradise, yellow and fix you

They're the only Coldplay ones I can do but for some I can only do parts of the song :awesome:

 

Try Postcards From Far Away.

That's a good one to learn to cheat your way with Classical music :awesome:

Haha okay, I usually learn by videos off YouTube, can't really read sheet music if I'm honest :embarrassed: I love ColdplayKBs videos

I'll have a look for a postcards from far away one :awesome:

I cant post on your wall :blank: add my on facebook or tumblr cause this is really odd :blank:

I have a reason this time! My privacy profile thingy is set to friends can write on my wall, it's says your a contact but not a friend so ill just change it that way you can write and I'll take it you saw my Chris pictures :dazzled: mwaha

Paradise is nice to play on the keyboard, the bass line is nice :awesome:

I can do paradise but only right hand :embarrassed: :awesome:

You suck -_-

Me? That's not very nice : /

Let me rephrase that: HOW CAN YOU BE SO CRUEL :bigcry:

Huh? What's going on?

 

We you talking about the friend thing? I only have people I personally know as friends (in real) and then all my Coldplay buds as contacts?