Online Piano Lessons – Should I start with those?

When you see Adrien Brody so gracefully roll his fingers while playing the piano in the end of the movie, ‘The Pianist’, a desire sprouts in your mind. A wish that even you should learn the piano and show off the elegance in the same manner as Mr. Wladyslaw Szpilman used to do.

Around 10 to 15 years back, there was set tradition to learning the piano. It was the ‘Guru-Shishya’ tradition as they call it in India. To learn a piano, what one needed to do was to go and take its education from a qualified piano teacher. Earlier than that, those people who had a good knowledge of the instrument used to impart it to their students. But cheating and fakism made it necessary to develop specialist academic courses in the instrument.

Online piano lessons seem to offer an ideal scenario for those who are short on funds or wary of starting a new instrument as an adult with little or no experience. After all, consumers get the anonymity of buying and learning online with the bulk rate offered on packages tailored for quick and easy use. Unfortunately, these very same benefits also present the perfect scenario for online opportunists to take advantage of unwary shoppers. Anonymity and ease of use for learning piano lessons online actually afford the perfect scenario for less-than-useful products, which is why it's important to make sure you know what to look for in a quality online piano lesson deal.

Learning the piano is quite a complicated process. But as they say, more the pain, more the gain. The hard work that you put in in learning the instrument can be really fulfilling when you watch yourself playing it at the end of the day. Especially when you start out to play the piano, you have loads and loads to learn. Your learning starts from reading about music to understanding the correlation to the keys on the piano to using the correct finger positions and music theory.

If you want to distinguish a good piano online tutorial from a bad one, here are a few tips

1.      Always have a check regarding the music reading instructions. The advantage of this check is that even if you do not potentially gain anything from the course, you will at least know how to read a written note and find the subsequent note on the piano and play it without referring to a fingering chart or number system.

2.      While learning the piano keep in mind the simplest fact of life- “Haste is Waste”. Effective piano learning is all about practicing the same notes, scales and chords over and over again. If your online course skips all the boring stuff, you're getting a popular - but not really good - education.

3.      Looking for a course which provides a variety of information in a compact manner. For example, a good course will start with learning notes, chords, fingering, and even posture and will slowly move on to strengthening exercises, sharp and flat notes, and the use of the foot pedal.

Thus, if you are someone who is a bit short of time or a bit shy to learn among the kids, online piano tutorial is a good option for you. It is cheap and effective and offers the same knowledge as the traditional one. But choosing the right tutorial is very important to achieving the desired results