1. Can’t Keep Up? 5 Ways To Simplify Your Piano Or Keyboard
Playing
Learning the piano or keyboard can sometimes be quite a fast paced environment. This is what most
musicians love most about playing piano or keyboard, because there is always a new challenge and
always a different way to play and approach a song.
Do you have a teacher that sometimes rushes you from song to song, or when you ask for a solution
to playing a certain section in a different way, they just repeat the standard part the same way as
you are currently doing.
In your mind all you want to do is play this song you so desperately love in a successful way you feel
comfortable and happy with.
We all have songs we would love to play and as a beginner sometimes these can be a little bit out of
reach, when you first start to play.
Have these songs as your goal and within a few months you will be able to play them, even if you
have to change or simplify them a little to suit your ability.
With keyboard and piano playing any song is possible because there are always ways to change it to
suit the individual.
Five ways to simplify your playing could be: -
1. If playing a piece of music with a complex rhythm in the bass section, take the main notes
out of the bass, and play the note once at the start of each bar.
For example if you had C E G present in the bass with a difficult rhythm, CEG form C Major
Chord, so by playing just C this would fit perfectly, and it will be much easier for you to co-
ordinate.
2. When reading music from musical score, you will have three sections – A keyboard line
which is the top line, a line and a bass line. Usually the piano and bass sections hands
together will be more complex than taking the keyboard melody section and the bass.
As a beginner taking the top line and the bass line is the simpler way to play and read your
music, and it will sound great!
3. Playing chords should be one of the first things you learn. If you are confident with all major
and minor chords, and good bass for learning a new song is to run through the chords to
start with, and familiarise yourself with the sound of the song.

2. Play a simple rhythm and once happy with this, start learning the melody section with your
right hand, and you will see how the chords connect your music, particularly between the
treble and bass clef.
4. If your melody section has a lot going on rhythmically and the musical score has added in
some parts that aren’t required, then take these out. Only you will know this and you will
feel much more comfortable with playing the song.
5. If your music has lots of chord shaped notes throughout, take the top note out of this
cluster, which will be the main melody section and play it all as individual notes. This applies
to the bass as well.
It can take many years of practice to reach the standard to be able play your own one hour song
repertoire on piano or keyboard.
But what if there was a simple method that could show any beginner how to do it in just 12 days?
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