How do I get back into learning piano?

As a music teacher, here is my biggest suggestion:

1) Get private lessons. Your teacher can come in and decide what needs to be addressed first, private you with quality material, and teach you the correct technique.

2) You learn theory as you learn piano. There is no either or, because part of theory learning is also application of the theory. This is where the private lessons teacher comes in handy, because they will introduce new concepts, refresh old ones, and help you understand them as you study new pieces.

For example, let's say you are at the point of learning cadenzas and how they are formed. You study the book portion, knowing cadenzas can often recap previous melodies, and must be in the appropriate key where the cadenza takes place. You write one out and think it looks good - but never play it. Then when you finally go to play it, you realize it doesn't sound right and have to alter the cadenza.

Most piano etude books address theory as the book progresses alongside difficulty of the songs.

3) Muscle memory - that comes from practicing. But, you've programmed yourself mentally to start over if you mess up. To truly be able to learn, understand, and practice a piece, you have to be able to start where you left off. So you have to have the music in front of you to do this - you can't just practice from memory.

If you restart from the beginning every time you mess up, that's a lot of wasted practice time! Not only that, by the time you get to the section in which you messed up, you'll most likely do it again because your mind is somewhere else (the beginning of the piece). You'll be programming yourself to mess up and it will take dozens of repetitions to get it corrected.

Again, this is where the piano teacher can help you - learning how to practice efficiently and how to pick up where you left off in the score.

Until you can find a teacher, the best piano series out there (in my opinion) are the Alfred series. I use them to teach my piano students because they're easy to understand and theory is always addressed in the book. You can find them on Amazon, eBay, or any local music store. I've linked publishing companies below for you.

Good luck!

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How do I get back into learning piano?

When I was younger, I took piano lessons for about 4, maybe 5 years, starting at when I was about 8. I learned a good deal about reading notes, the piano chords, and quite a few songs (Fur Elise probably being the most difficult). I also developed a good ear for music and picking out tunes. I'm...

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Piano is easier and you won't have to have really quick fingers to play it. Guitar takes a little more to get used to. But it all comes down to one thing. What do you like better? It's all up to you. A lot of people can give you suggestions, but the only answer is in your heart. What are you more into? The way it sounds in your question, it sounds like you're stuck with a guitar that you bought and now you want to play piano. If that's the case you should go to piano. Be patient with the guitar though, and make sure you really want to do this. It's really more of a love/ hate relationship I find between a guitar player and his guitar. The guitar becomes really fun once you know how to play it. You can only go so far with a piano. I suggest if you buy a piano, to buy a keyboard cause you can do more things with it and it's less expensive. Hope this helps.

If you really want to get back into piano quickly, it would probably still be a good idea to brush up on your sight reading first. Here's a site that claims they can help you do that in as little as a week.

If you dont want to go to a piano teacher then buy yourself a piano course. Try this site for lots of advice and help on which course to choose.

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buy a book on learning the piano for adults

i heard piano teachers really help...at least that is what my friends did and it seemed like they improved...i play the drums and i never had any lessons up to the point of my senior year of high school...i kind of stopped playin in high school and when i get back into it i improved on things i knew and learned a lot of new techniques...

So..

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I would suggest hiring a private tutor.

take more lessons... your more motivated when you are accountable to someone.. plus the teacher will help you get better at all that