Start learning with piano
1 June 2007I’d like to recommend that everyone have some musical training. This will be explained even more later when I talk about something called the Mozart Effect. One of the best ways to develop an understanding of music is to study the piano. Take piano, or keyboard lessons. You will never regret it. No matter what instrument you end up playing, piano lessons will benefit you as you study music. As you learn piano, you learn all the fundamentals of music. This is true of the serious study of any instrument, but piano is singular in one aspect – all of the notes available to us as musicians are laid out in front of us. We can easily see the range of notes, from low to high, which on the keyboard or piano is from left to right. We can visualize before us the relationship of one note to another. We can see how octaves are made up. We can easily learn how different types of scales are made up, such as minor or major scales. We can see how chords are formed from the different tones of the scale. For example, we can understand straightforwardly the difference between major and minor chords. These types of subjects are considered music theory. There is no easier way to learn music theory than to study piano.
What do you think? Anyone have any experience with starting with the piano and moving onto another instrument? Did the piano lessons help you?
Coming up I want to get more into the discussion of choosing a musical instrument. It is important to choose a musical instrument that matches your tastes and preferences in music…
