Is learning to play piano self-taught practical?

Hi David. I believe it is where you currently stand musically, and where you would like to be. I'll break it down:

Where are you now?

-If you know music (basic theory/practices) already, whether as a singer or as an instrumentalist of other instruments, then it'll be easier.

-If you have never learned to read music, play any instruments, or other wise been exposed to music, then it'll be harder.

Where do you want to be?

-If you want to be able to play some pop music (maybe read chords and lead sheets) and easy-intermediate classical pieces for enjoyment, you may not need a teacher.

-If you don't mind having poor basics but know enough to perhaps impress friends or family, you may not need a teacher.

-If you want to have good basics to built upon (which will take you far) and allow you to progress much further then you'd want to have a teacher.

Sometimes it is even faster (if you have a knack for music) to learn the piano without a teacher because a teacher will drill you on fundamentals for longer while when one is teaching oneself one tends to skip to the fun pieces and the likes. This, though, will result in much frustration later when you can't play more advanced music due to poor basics.

Bottom line is, yes, you CAN learn to play the piano by yourself - but it ultimately depends on how far you want to go. Whether you get a teacher or not, the most important thing is PERSEVERANCE and PRACTICE. Good luck!

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Self Teaching Piano

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First, it is not true that if you can "find a c key then you can figure scores out." Whoever told you that doesn't know what he or she is talking about.

Self-teaching is possible to a degree, but it depends on what your goals are and what you want to be able to play. If you're thinking classics - Chopin, Mozart, you name it - it's highly doubtful you can do this on your own unless you are some type of savant. There are people who have have studied all their lives and still struggle with it. If you want to play the classical repertoire, call your local university music department and ask them to suggest an independent teacher for you.

But if you want to play jazz, blues, rock, pop - you can get books with scales, chord theory, technique, and so on - and if you put sufficient time into it you can learn to play - how well depends on your natural talent and the work you put into it. But without a teacher, you'll have no professsional feedback, and every musician needs that, particularly when he or she is starting out.

What's NOT going to happen is you sitting at the piano all by yourself and turning into anything but an amateur plunker. Anybody can find a C on the piano, but it won't do anything more for you than being able to find a C on the piano!

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With regards to finding a best buy, I can't really help you. I never owned a keyboard, and have no idea where to direct you. With regards to the degree of difficulty in learning how to play instruments, the piano has its advantages and dis-advantages. But if you don't know how to read music, you're behind the 8-ball to begin with. There are self-teaching methods around - I guess - but you would be much better off with a "live, breathing" teacher. Seriously. In order to read sheet music for the piano, you have to learn how to read two clefs: the treble for the right hand, and the bass, for the left. The only instruments where ones breathing is of vital concern, are the wood-winds and the brass. The most difficult to learn and to play of these two types of instruments are: the oboe, bassoon and French Horn.(I would stay away from any of them, at least in the beginning) Any kind of string instrument is difficult: really difficult, unless you are born with some kind of innate talent for them. I would suspect what will present the greatest difficulty for you just starting out, is learning how to read sheet music. But whichever instrument you decide upon, I hope you enjoy it, and have fun, Alberich

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Teaching yourself to play piano is like that old joke about giving a room full of monkeys 100 typewriters. Eventually, they would type out the complete works of Shakespeare - but it would take a while . . .

Save yourself a LOT of time and headaches - call a teacher. A good teacher is worth every penny, no matter how expensive they are, and a POOR teacher is a WASTE of every penny, no matter how cheap.

its very practical...i went to a conservatory when i was 8 for a while...then i became self taught...i am 15 now and i can play everything from beethoven to popular music so its very beneficial....plus you arent limited to the conventional methods of piano studies......good luck and u must practice a lot

Playing piano CORRECTLY is all about TECHNIQUE and you can't get that for free off the internet... you need a TEACHER for that