Piano Tips

Piano playing may look easy but it's very complicated because of all the techniques and symbols. A few things that you always have to keep in mind are keep your hands in a shape so that it looks like you're looking at a ball, keep your wrists still and use the tips of your fingers not the pads. The sheet music will tell you where to be loud and soft, what tempo to go at, where to slow down and where to get louder or softer. Most musician read the music just as it is on the sheet music, but the good musicians put their feeling in it. Piano playing is like a painting. When you're painting somthing 1 color you will use different shades. In music if it tells you loud of soft the loundness or softness doesn't have to be even. You need to put feeling in the piano music. When I play piano I try to find out how the composer wanted the people who play it to feel. Like happy, sad, angry. The piano also has 3 pedals. The one on the very right makes the sound hold and last longer. The middle pedal makes any of the keys you're holding down at that time will hold. The one on the very left shifts all the keys over to the right. In piano there are many sybols like cresendo, dimuendo, forte, fortissimo, piano, piansimmo and many more. You should always memorize what they mean or when you play you don't know where to play loud or soft, play slow or fast. All the symbols are important. They tell you how the music should go. Notes in music go A, B, C, D, E, F, G then repeat. Piano is simpler in that way. In piano all the notes are in order. Knowing these key skills piano will be a lot easier.