Learn piano online #1: "Why Learning Piano?"

Ok, I believe that to be a good musician it's very helpful to know how to play the piano.I don't mean that you should become a piano virtuoso,but being able to play the piano freely is something very important if you really want to dig into theory,arranging and composing music. You could ask "why?" of course. The piano is an instrument where the polyphony can be played much more easily than on the other instruments. On piano you can play the rhythm part along with the melodies,or play two,three or even more voices at the same time pretty easily.You can play the bass part,the accompaniment,the lead melody, the counter melody simultaneously.That's what makes it the best friend of a composer or an arranger.And of course if you are using technology to write music you MUST know how to play a bit of piano to make the MIDI recordings much more humanized and real.But do remember that the piano can't really substitute a band or an orchestra, because the timbre and the color of each instrument in an orchestra ,and the balance between them is what creates the color of the orchestral music.So,if you are an arranger then you should also learn to hear the timbres of the instrument that will be used.

Myself,after being a guitar player and a songwriter for many years I took jazz piano lessons for a year and that was one of the best choices I made in my music live. Not only I enjoy playing piano and my compositions are now written much more easily but it also helped my guitar playing pretty well. On piano ,practicing the theory becomes a very easy subject and I strongly recommend that if you are serious about music, that you learn at least the essentials of playing it.

In these articles of my blog named "Learn Piano" I will post some essential guides and tips for learning the piano to help you obtain your skills much more quickly and easily.Also it's important to know basic theory to understand the piano more easily so check out my Theory Lessons.

Remember that whatever you learn,will always come in handy some time .So give it some time and learn playing piano and I'm pretty sure that your effort will pay back very very soon.