re: Playing piano harder than learning to type?

Learned to play some piano recently. Helps if you have a nimble flexible hand. I have a thick working mans kinda hands that are somewhat jacked up due to almost two years of front squatting. My hands would cramp at first but they got better as I played more

I think piano skills help when someone is learning typing (happened to me) more than typing skills help someone who is learning to play piano.

You need to find someone like Kozak in Shreveport (Kozak was an ace percussionist, particularly on the vibes and marimba, and he taught music classes) who had a way of teaching that would advance adults quickly.

I'm not sure what it was called. He gave me a lesson or two and it really helped me shake off the rust.

To be completely honest, good luck. If you aren’t able to have both feet and hands doing completely separate shite all in time, you won’t get past scales, arpeggios, and chicken scratching out nursery rhymes.

Oh and you better learn all cows eat grass, good boys don’t fight anymore, face, and every good boy does fine

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Learn to read music, its not hard,

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Learning to read music in ONE clef is challenging enough for most people. Learning to read both clefs simultaneously and translating that to either hand is entirely different.

It’d be like typing without the letters shown on the keys. Kinda.

You can learn. I didnt touch a guitar until I was 37. Now I'm a solid intermediate.

Can you remember 12 things? Western music is based around 12 music notes. That's it. The piano repeats those 12 notes in different octaves. When you learn scales you are learning what 12 notes sound good together.

Couple things about learning an instrument. You have to commit to at least 30 minutes a day of practice. I find it stress relieving.

Second, you have to have patience. You have to practice very slow. After a while of practicing slow you will naturally speed up. I think the slow practice pace is what does people in and makes them quit.

Third, start off with an instructor. They will stop bad habits before they form.

Last dont get discouraged. You might go weeks feeling like you are all thumbs. But a weird thing happens, one day it will just click.

Every step of progress I have made happened that way. One day it would click. The day it clicks is the best feeling ever.

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Playing piano harder than learning to type?

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Learning to play piano would be like learning to type Korean on a Korean keyboard.

You aren't just learning to put down the keys, you are learning to read a new language (music) at the same time.

My guess is that it is more the twice as hard to learn piano than it is to learn how to type.

Typing is taught in one semester of school class. You can learn a lot on piano in that same amount of time, if you take almost daily lessons.

Are you going to take almost daily one-hour lesson son piano for a period of four months? If so, you'll learn quite a bit and will be able to play SOME piano.

I play a little piano. Played as a kid and got back into it a few years ago.

It's hard to say because difficulty varies per person. It's much harder than learning to type simply because typing doesn't require simultaneously hitting multiple keys with multiple fingers on each hand (you don't type a word by hitting all the keys at once). There's a much greater degree of coordination and timing involved.

You should buy a cheap keyboard and some children's beginners books. I say children's books because it'll break things down for you in a way that doesn't involve your having any knowledge of piano terminology.