The benefits of piano training: what's really bringing you

Learning piano gives you something that few instruments offer: to see the complete music in front of you. At the keyboard you play melody, chords and low at the same time, so you understand how a song works while you play it. Also, train the co-ordination between two hands that do different things, serve as a basis for any other instrument and allows you to sound complete without dependent on anyone.

Here you will have no miraculous promise. We tell you what a piano teacher sees at his students week by week, where piano plays in Colombia and what challenges to get to know before we start.

To sum up

The piano makes harmony visible: scales, chords and intervals are seen on the keyboard, and are not only memorized.
He trains his independent hands: one carries his melody and the other his accompaniment sometimes with different rhythms.
It's a solid basis for singing, composing, studying theory or later passing onto another instrument.
It sounds complete alone and also takes place in churches, choirs, salsa orchestras, jazz groups and gangs.
His real challenges are to read into two keys, patience of the first few months and that you cannot carry with you.

What's his piano training, particularly

When we talk about benefits, we have to get them to land: it's not about becoming more intelligent by magic, but about skills that you practice every week and how you play and how you listen.

Coordination and independence of hands

The right hand sings a melody while the left holds chords or a low, sometimes with rhythms that do not match. At first it seems impossible; with slow practice and with separate hands, his fingers learn to share his work. It's one of the most satisfying sensations of his piano: the day his two hands finally get loose.

Fine sound monitoring

On an acoustic piano or a digital with sensitive keys, the speed with which you lower the key changes the volume and color. You learn to play a soft and more powerful voice at once and to use the pedal without everything becoming a sound spot.

Music reading

The piano is read in two pentagrams at once, a key of sun and a key of fa. It costs more at first, but whoever reads piano after that is defended with scores of almost every instrument.

You understand harmony because you see it

At guitar, a chord is a form of his hand and at piano, it's a group of keys that you can count. That's why so many proffes of theory and singing ask his students for a keyboard, even if it's simple.

A bigger scale looks as a pattern of black and white keys that are repeated from any note.
A bigger or lower chord is put up by leaping keys, and moving a single note changes its character.
Investment and seventh-degree conforms are no longer rare names and become concrete positions.
By accompanying songs with American encryption (C, Am, F, G) you understand why some chords sound good together.

That understanding later allows you to get out ear songs, make arrangements or compose. If you want to go more deeply, the [music theory class]](/clases/teoria-musical) They have a good combination with the piano.

A basis that serves anything that comes after

Many musicians who play another instrument today have started at the piano and that's no coincidence. What you learn on the keyboard goes with you:

What do you get from piano to other musical roads
If after that you will...	What the piano's been after you
Cantar	You can give yourself your own grades, come with and understand the harmony of what you're singing.
Play guitar, low or tiple	You know what grades each chord forms and you just have to place them at the diapason.
Study Music at University	The complementary piano's usually a matter of obligation and getting with bases removes pressure.
Compose or produce	The production programs use MIDI keyboards and a piano view that you understand right away.
Touch a wind or a frosted string	You come with reading, pulse and harmonic ear and you focus on new technique.

If you have a music race in mind, check out the [preuniversity music]](/preuniversitario-musica): To come with piano, reading and harmony makes the preparation much more useful.

Where you can play piano in Colombia

The piano has a name as an instrument and it's true that it sounds complete with nobody else. But it also opens many doors to play with them:

Churches and praising groups: The keyboard goes with misas, cults and chores and most of them have to read cipher.
Chors: The accompanying pianist gives his notes, holds harmony in his essays and accompanies his presentations.
Plastic and tropical music and salsa orchestras: The piano carries the mount, that repeated pattern that pushes the whole orchestra.
Jazz, pop and college and university bands: The keyboard cover chords, sound mattresses and sometimes even low.
Camera music: accompanying a violinist, singer or flatista is a great listening school.
At home: A piano in the living room became a meeting place to be sung at birthday and December 9.

That's the piano for you?

That's how things work. That's how you get them back.
You have to play alone at your place with no band and no escort.
Or you'd like to write your own songs.
Enjoy step by step and watch progress week by week.
You're an adult and you're looking for a time of concentration of your own. Here are ideas to learn adult piano.

For children, piano is a first and most grateful instrument: the note sounds tuned as soon as you press the key without having to produce sound with air or with an arc. Those earlier results give a great deal of inspiration.

The Honest challenges of piano

Each instrument has its own difficult part and best to get to know from the start:

Two keys and two hands at once: reading advances slower than in a single melodic line.
He doesn't travel with you: Don't take him for a ride or a friend's place, so you get used to playing the instrument that's at every place.
Space and neighbours: an acoustic piano occupies and sounds. A digital with hearing aids resolves a good part and we explain the differences with [a digital piano or keyboard]](/blog/piano-digital-o-teclado-diferencias).
The tension nobody sees: It's easy to play with tight shoulders and dolls if nobody fixes them in time.
The Plateau of First months: come a point at which pieces get more demanding and appear to be unadvanced. It's normal and outweighs with constant practice.

Frequently asked questions

Is it a good idea that piano's the first instrument?

That's one of the best entrance doors: the sound's barely pressurized and the theory's seen on the keyboard. Still, the best first instrument's what makes you feel like practising. If you get more guitar or violin, start with that.

Do piano play help to relax?

Many people have been living with this: focusing on a piece leaves little space to think about other things and end up with something that goes well with you. It's not a therapy and does not replace a professional care but it can be a while of your own at the week.

Do you have to have talent to learn piano?

It helps have good listening or rhythmic ease, but what weighs most is regular and well oriented practice. Coordination between hands, which is what scares most, is built step by step with slow exercises.

Learning piano's good if I have to be singing?

A great deal. To be able to give you a note, with simple chords and to understand the harmony of your songs gives you independence. That's why many singers have piano as an accompaniment to their singing classes.