As you progress in your piano playing you will notice your fingers and wrists can become strained after a long practice. Prevention is better than a cure which is why you need to start doing finger and wrist exercises.
Learning how to practice well enables you to get the most out of the time you have: to make maximum progress and firmly establish new information. I’ve compiled 10 practice tips here that are easy to implement in your practising regime.
Taking care of your piano is vital to not just getting a good sound - you are investing in the longevity of your instrument and the respect you give it suggests to your psyche that playing the piano is important to you.
Acoustic pianos can be expensive, particularly the shiny variety. But if you’re not in the market to throw several thousand at a glossy black beauty then you’re looking at the used category of pianos.
The obvious upside to a keyboard is that you can turn the volume knob up or down depending on your audience (or lack thereof) and that ol’ saviour, the headphone jack, is there for your housemates sanity...
So you love listening to piano music and you’ve always wanted to play, or maybe you never thought of playing piano ever before but it seems like it would be fun to learn (it is), but, you don’t have a piano currently...
