[kg815]

So I just bought a keyboard the other day and my plan is to teach myself to play in my free time.

Can any of the piano players on this board suggest some piano literature or other resources that I can work off of?

[ninjato]

I'll check out what books I had when I get home from work.

How fluent are you w/ notation?

This post has been edited by ninjato: 24 September 2008 - 08:10 AM

[kg815]

i'm pretty rusty with notation. as in i can read single note stuff okay but i cannot for the life of me read chords. what i have been doing for that so far is matching the tones that appear on the digital staff on the keyboard as i play them to the actual notes written on the sheet music. i also have an extremely good ear, so i've sort of been trying to hammer out tunes this way as well.

but i would like to get a basic knowledge of positions and fingering techniques at the simplest level.

[ninjato]

http://www.free-onli...no-lessons.com/

that is a good site to get started.

as for reading chords. You know that it is a chord when stacked. So what I do is immediately look at the root note (not the BASS note) in order to do this, your eye has got to get used to seeing how chords are drawn and how they look depending on what inversion is being used.

I too hate notation but I prefer notation over TAB. I can learn a tune faster on notation than I can on TAB. TABs are annoying, confusing, and many times missing a lot of components and require you to have a copy of the song somewhere to listen to.

This post has been edited by ninjato: 15 April 2009 - 09:04 AM

[musiclovesryan]

There's a music store near my house and the workers there are always willing to offer suggestions about piano literature...they even offer piano lessons. You should look online to see if there are any near you...