Piano Question

Today I decided I will start playing the piano seriously. The most important thing is to get a good start. Being a very technically thinking person I wanted to know what you piano experts consider a good start! I have a week of freedom from school now and I will put it into piano practice

So where does one begin?

Thank you in advance!

You should work on your technique, by doing exercises as well as practicing etudes. There are a lot of books with etudes, check your library. Everybody has their own favo(u)rite(s). Exercises are mainly scales, arpeggios, trills, chords, intervals, whatever. [Get your scales and chords right instantly, don't struggle with them later on.] The most important thing would be getting the fingering right, playing with correct posture and hand movement, playing cleanly and getting everything up to speed.
Concerning 'Spielstücke' (pieces), you should check out simple works by Mozart, Chopin, ...
The Mozart 'Facile' sonata is lovely, but it might be too difficult, depending on your current level of playing. Just start with some etudes. And if you've been working on a particular technique, try finding a piece that uses it. A good source for sheet music is sheetmusicarchive.net

What's your background? What's your experience? Have you had any lessons before?

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heya!

Thanks alot for your advice Snees, it has been helpful. I haven't been able to post because of my computer playing hookie instead of doing what it's suppoused to. I started playing 2 pieces aswell as learning all the basic scales and arpeggios(I have the cycle of fifths down). The pieces I started working on are the Facile Sonata you recommended and the Pathetique Sonata by Beethoven(middle section). It's going very well! I'm 2 minutes into the Pathetique Sonata and I've got the first part of the Facile sonata down(past the scale runs up and down). I found a great piano method here:

Piano Fundamentals

It has helped me advance technically very fast since I posted here. It is a totally diffirent approach than I have done with the guitar but it is so very good!! if anyone has the time to read this I would like to know what you think.

What's your background? What's your experience? Have you had any lessons before?

I've never actually played the piano, just fooled around from time to time. And I've never had a teacher but I'm thinking about finding one.

I disagree 100% with Snees' method. He sounds like most piano teachers these days. ''If you want to be good at piano, FOR GODS SAKE: DON'T PLAY ANYTHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE MUSIC!!'.

I suggest you drop all those silly scale excersises and concentrate on pieces of music! If you have some kind of MSN accound we could perhaps share experiences, i'd be very interested to hear your thoughts on the pathetique..

^ What he said let's chat!

Heya Letehn! ^^ My msn account is Popeyekatt@hotmail.com. If anyone wishes to add me feel free to do so

Get Hanon Book of Exercises and a book of scales with chords and arpeggios learn both those books and learn to sight read like a second language and you will have no problem playing much of anything really.

I can't play that well yet I've only been threw like 30 something hanon exercises.

(PS: Always follow exactly the fingering markings for hanon as it is designed to build strength and agility in the fingers that are more akward to play with, 4 and 5 mainly, esp. to do trills with)

*rants long and elaborately on how much hanon sucks*

Hey Hannon is very helpful!

though you have to be creative, you have to love it.