One important thing to work towards is complete independence of your hands. The goal is to be able to figure out what to do for yourself, on the fly (not much help when you want someone to tell you exactly what to do, I know!) Start with chords, maybe add in some arpeggios, blues scale runs, standard blues riffs, and so on.

What you're really learning is how to improvise on the piano.

Then start adding in the right hand (p58). Starting on page 53 there are some examples of left hand patterns, and googling for something like 'blues left hand patterns' or 'boogie woogie left hand patterns' will give you plenty more. I'd work through the 12 bar blues in a few common keys (e.g. 'No Stupid Questions' thread (twice/month)ĮPierre's weekly composition/improvisation challenge IMSLP provides access to free, public domain sheet music. is a great website to learn the fundamentals of music theory. commenting on someone's appearance), and the like, are not welcome and will be removed. Off-topic posts, spam, advertising, blog posts with little contentĪlso, please do not submit more than 3-4 posts per week, and you should not have more than 2 posts on the front page.Ĭomments that contain personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, unnecessarily derogatory or inflammatory remarks or inappropriate remarks (e.g. Requests for transcriptions, identifying chords/notes in a song (use /r/transcribe), what song is this?, requests for sheet music (see FAQ, use /r/musicnotes, /r/transcribe)Ĭommon generic questions covered by the FAQ such as 'What's a good keyboard?', 'What's my piano worth?', 'How do I get started?', unless your question has specific details. (use /r/musicpics, /r/classicalmemes or /r/pianomemes) Image memes, pictures of text, rage comics, etc. The following types of posts are subject to removal: Recording from a Digital Keyboard into a Computer read the FAQ Newest Comments | Participate! Piano Jam | 'No Stupid Questions' Welcome to /r/piano! Whether you're an absolute beginner or a seasoned professional, we hope you've come to talk about pianos.

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