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DavidRamey

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Welcome. Good supportive community here. Start with just the black keys, there are only 5 of those :P . Seriously, there are really only 12 notes to learn. Chords, scales, arpeggios, note reading helps but only for understanding your way around (one of my best students played classical repertoire without knowing how to read music, did it all from listening and memory! If you learn your way around one octave, all the rest are the same! I'm a retired music ed instructor, so if you have any music theory or performance questions, post them here, glad to help out. Happy Holidays.

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Congratulations and welcome!

 

Jokeyman is right. There are a lot of people who will tell you that you have to do this or you have to do that in order to play piano, but there is only one thing you really have to do - have fun! I think all the rest are shoulds, not haves. I mean, when people learn to play guitar, almost no one says, "you should learn proper classical technique, learn all fingerings for all scales, sight reading, blah blah blah…" In fact, I know a lot of guitar players who cannot tell you what they're playing. They just grab a known chord shape on the neck, move it around, and then play another one that sounds good with it.

 

You can play a lot of great songs (or write your own) by just knowing a few chords. Then, if you decide you want to take it further, you always can.

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A good start :P. Technically, that would be called by college professors (I'm not) a "pentatonic scale"! Even if you play it with your knuckles. Or your feet like Jerry Lee lewis although he actually could play serious gospel and boogy-woogy patterns. Get those same 5 notes transferred to the white notes and you get C-D-E-G-A, or start it on A (A-C-D-E-G) and its a pentatonic minor. now I'm getting too carried away already. Guitar shredders use this scale constantly, why can't we? My last Christmas present before the New Year, you already know too much now! :)

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