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Posted by: wollace03 Feb 17 2013, 08:20 AM

Hi!

I just bought a yamaha clp-470 for my sons and I really fell in love with the piano!

so I am looking for good online lessons or ressources for me to learn the basics of the piano to use it for some recording or just to play around.
I don´t want to learn the way my son learns because I dont want to become a serious piano player (I have enough to do with the guitar).
I just wanna compose some melodies, use it for some recording in my own songs and for some midi recording - well and maybe play a few easy songs. and of course I hope that it helps my to get better at music-theory.

so are there other piano playing guitarist and do you have some tips for me how to learn?

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 17 2013, 12:16 PM

I have no clue on how to do it academically, but, if I were to start from scratch, I would use my theory knowledge and apply it on another instrument

On the other hand, you might want to take a look here: http://teach-yourself-piano.no1reviews.com/

Posted by: zoom Feb 17 2013, 12:31 PM

I've taught myself to play bass notes on left hand and chords on right hand. I find I can play a lot of stuff with this. With the chords I my play them as arpeggios and add extra notes. I also sit with my kids and help them with lessons so I'm learning properly.

Posted by: wollace03 Feb 17 2013, 12:33 PM

thanxs!

there some stuff to check out!
the main reason I wanna lean to play piano is to get better at theory - right now I am not good enough to use much of my theory to learn the piano.... although I am able to see and play triads and "chords" on the piano .....

Posted by: PosterBoy Feb 17 2013, 03:29 PM

I've got back into trying to play too.

Thank God I use midi and can quantize and fix my mistakes!

I want to get better at playing and that I guess will come with more practice.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 18 2013, 08:44 AM

The only thing that I have actually took time to figure out on the piano, was a little phrase - obsessive and repeating - played by a little monkey on a barrel organ at the circus

Posted by: Ninjastorm Feb 21 2013, 09:57 PM

Hey, nice to see that other gutarist play the piano. I took piano lessons in my childhood.

I think it's good to start playing cords with the left hand and play the melody with the right. I often play in that way and it works geat.

My suggestion for you in 4 steps:
1: choose 4 cords
2: play them with the left hand and repeat it
3: play a simple melody with the right hand over it
4: when you are confident with that you can change the speed or the beat (4/4 to 3/4 ...) or play more than one note with the right hand....

If you are interested, I can do a short video with this 4 steps. It will may help you.

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 22 2013, 09:14 AM

QUOTE (Ninjastorm @ Feb 21 2013, 08:57 PM)

Hey, nice to see that other gutarist play the piano. I took piano lessons in my childhood.

I think it's good to start playing cords with the left hand and play the melody with the right. I often play in that way and it works geat.

My suggestion for you in 4 steps:
1: choose 4 cords
2: play them with the left hand and repeat it
3: play a simple melody with the right hand over it
4: when you are confident with that you can change the speed or the beat (4/4 to 3/4 ...) or play more than one note with the right hand....

If you are interested, I can do a short video with this 4 steps. It will may help you.

Any inspirational video is welcome here

Feel free to share it with us man!

Posted by: wollace03 Feb 22 2013, 09:35 AM

Hi ninjastorm!
A video would be great!
thanxs for the tip.
I tried it today in the morning with F / Bb / C7 / F - it was great fun and really sounded like music - although it is very hard to concentrate on both hands at the same time!

Posted by: Ninjastorm Feb 22 2013, 11:04 AM

Concentrate on both hand is may the most difficult part here. But this is increasing automatically with practise. The different to the guitar is to play with both hands asynchronous.

I will upload the video as soon as possible

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Feb 23 2013, 08:01 AM

Looking forward to it

Posted by: Ninjastorm Feb 23 2013, 03:34 PM

Thank for your interest in a piano video

And here it is. There are some mistakes in the playing and i had to EQ the sound a bit. But it should be ok now.

(You will find more information in the description on youtube.)

Posted by: thefireball Feb 23 2013, 03:49 PM

I took piano lessons when I was 8 years old, and then on for several years. I learned a lot about theory. It wasn't until in my late teens I would pick up the guitar. Unfortunately, I stopped playing piano all together, so now I'm out of practice. Great playing, Ninjastorm!

Actually, I just remembered I have a tutorial on how to play Chopsticks. I made it back in November 2009.

I also have a September 2009 video of my playing an old hymn "Sweet Hour of Prayer."

Posted by: wollace03 Feb 23 2013, 04:26 PM

thanx for the videos....
very inspiring to see other guys here playing piano beside of guitarplaying...
..sweet hour of praying is a nice piece of music!!

and ninjastorm, your lesson vid sounds amazing... I will try that tonight. 4 chords and a little melody and it sounds like a real amazing song!!! I will definitely learn that,.....

Posted by: Ninjastorm Feb 24 2013, 11:55 AM

QUOTE (thefireball @ Feb 23 2013, 03:49 PM)

I took piano lessons when I was 8 years old, and then on for several years. I learned a lot about theory. It wasn't until in my late teens I would pick up the guitar. Unfortunately, I stopped playing piano all together, so now I'm out of practice. Great playing, Ninjastorm!

thx.You will may give the piano a second chance. I would love to see more piano videos from you.

QUOTE (wollace03 @ Feb 23 2013, 04:26 PM)