Hi. Thanks to playing the flute for some reason I can play the treble cleft side on the piano. I never had lessons for the piano but am thinking about it for next school year. Can by any chance anyone give me any advice i need to know for chords, bass cleft,ect. I can play just about any treble cleft part that i can play on the flute, just i don't exactly know how to play. Am I on the right track for the piano?

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By the way, has any of you guys played another instrument and all of a sudden started picking at piano, not really knowing what you're doing, and just all of a sudden started playing a familiar song? just wandering if that's normal. I play sheet music i get from school, move along by all american rejects, and many others on flute and piano. people think i have a very awkward musical talent.

I play piano in my schools jazz band and I have a hard time reading the chords and things.....so yea I can relate. But for the bass cleft say you have a note on the bottom space that's gonna be an A becasue you raise it up 2 note names. hope I helped a little.

i honestly don't know the notes on a piano for example i don't get the Am note. I only know a,b,c,d,e,f,g,#,and b. i also understand the keys(minor and major) because i play the flute. I just don't really know anything about piano.

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by the way i'm pretty sure i know what you mean and i think it may help. i mean i haven't even had my 1st piano lesson yet

lol trust me after a few lessons you'll proly understand what I mean more...

I played recorder, then piano, then alto saxophone. I wanna play oboe.

I always wanted to play piano and I taught my self a bit.

So....

I think that is good.

hopefully i get more replies so i know i'm not weird because i learned how to play it while learning how to play the flute lol.

I played the violin for several years then picked up the piano. It was harder learning bass clef but I think everyone finds it harder then the right hand at first. I picked up the bassoon too a couple of months later so I have had lots of bass clef practice!

how are piano lessons coming along?

Florentin

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still haven't even signed up. we did get a card and we are thinking about putting me in when my schedule is not so tight. next school year it's torture to wait that long! how old was everyone when they started playin piano. i'm gonna be 14 almost 15 when i start! i am 14 now.

I started when I was 9 but I taught myself

Hiya!!

I dont think it's at all weird that you are beginning to pick up piano skills using your knowledge of the flute!! I used to play the guitar and then stopped for a few years, and later took up piano. I couldn't remember anything about music from my guitar lessons because I had a long period of time inbetween, but I'd imagine it would have helped a lot if I had taken up piano during or when I first stopped guitar.

I was 14 (I'm not 15) when I started piano lessons, and at first I thought I might be too old to be any good, but I'm taking my grade 4 soon so I don't think age is an issue.

I definately think you should take up piano lessons, and continue practising what you already know about the right hand. Introducing left hand can be a bit tricky, especially when you come to read music because you have to look at two staves at once and the notes on the treble stave are in different places to the bass clef.

To clarfiy, as you know, the notes on the treble clef go:

----F--------------------------------
E
----D--------------------------------
C
----B--------------------------------
A
----G--------------------------------
F
----E--------------------------------
D
-C-


But on the bass clef, they look like this:

-C-
B
----A-------------------------------
G
----F-------------------------------
E
----D-------------------------------
C
----B-------------------------------
A
----G-------------------------------
F
-E-

The note 'C' at the bottom of the treble clef and 'C' at the top of the bass clef are the same note, and refer to 'middle c' on the piano. This is the C closest to the middle of the piano.

Learning the notes of each clef from sight will be a little confusing and you will probably be slow at recognsing them at first and will no doubt get them mixed up. It's just something that comes with time and practise.

And what is it you don't understand about chords? Let me know and I'll do my best to explain

Hope that was of any help, and good luck for your piano lessons!

Laura


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By the way, when I said 'I was 14 (I'm not 15) when I started piano lessons', I actually meant 'I was 14 (I'm NOW 15)...etc...' Just to clarify!!! :P

If you haven't signed up for that class yet, I very much recommend you do. When I was in my single digits, my mom tried to teach me piano, but I never really got bass clef. Then I took a year of piano lessons, and I can play pretty much any piano music you put in front of me. I would recommend using Alfred's three book course. As for help on chords, go to www.musictheory.net and follow the lessons. That will give you a sufficient musical background for any instrument, as well as theory knowledge if you ever feel like composing. They have ear training, and chord lessons, and everything you need. Nothing beats a real human teacher, though.

well your talent is very cool and rare...i have parts of it and your lucky you have all of it

although I went from playing piano to flute which helped me a lot also.

here's my advice for you

1.) if you don't want to get serious search for a good teacher but one that is fun. I didn't and got stuck with a hard driving teacher
2.) the notes of the bass cleft are (starting from the bottom line) G (being the bottom line), A, B, C, D, E, so on so fourth like the bass cleft.
3.)chords are very simple but challenging. They use lots of thinking (at least for me) there are lots of websites for it.
4.) once you know the notes basically the left hand is the same. I know you want tricks and stuff that can help but I don't know any at the moment
5.) theroy books are the best way to go on fingerings and such

and congrats!!!!!!! piano is worth it if you have fun. definatly get a fun teacher and don't let the flute down because piano will help flute and flute will help piano. (trust me from expirence)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I play clarient and just started a piano keyboarding class at school. I think I am really starting to get the whole two handed thing, which i never thought i'd get because i'm not the most coordinated person in the world. But i have to take keyboard for music major in college. I guess i've always kind of wanted to learn piano too, it's so amusing!!
-Amanda

thank you so so much. i'm pretty sure ur advice will help me soooo much. god, i forgot i posted this lol and it wasn't too long ago either. but as i said earlier thank you soo much. and no i will not quit the flute either. i know what keys are which on the piano and that the black ones are sharps or flats and the whites are naturals. thanks