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Could you try tilting it a bit? Like prop it up on the far side so the keys are lower at the front that the back? Not sure it'll work but could try. Definitely try the booster seat cushion!
@icu81b4 Oh I didn't imagine it would be similar to fingerstyle guitar, I knew it would be harder than that, I just wasn't ready for how hard
but I find it a lot easier than guitar and more logical when you look at a keyboard or at a stave .If you imagine a stave chord notation being vertical on the page rather than horizontal you can almost copy the shape with your hand -the note spaces are a clue starting with the lowest......you become instinctively aware of sharps and flats if you know what key you are in / what the chord shape looks like .
Arps are very logical but to get them rolling smoothly is simply a question of fingering and muscle memory....just keep practicing them.Don't expect to start with the 3rd movement of the Moonlight Sonata !
;-) Aaaaaaaaaasssssss if.
Can anyone recommend any good resources, Youtube teachers etc? Most sheet music and a lot of lessons I can find seem designed to play whole arrangement and vocal melody on the piano rather than what the keyboard player in a band would actually play.
thanks
Having said all of that, I can't help feeling that more practice time would make a huge difference...
But the way the notes are arranged and not repeated like they are on guitar is so natural for me. Might just be the way my particular brain works but I just find the piano keyboard to make so much sense. I always use it as a mental reference.
Even when singing, I mentally picture piano keys to remind me what note I'm trying to sing; I remember my singing teacher finding that a really cool quirk.
I actually find the separation of left and right hand actions to be so much more difficult than it was on the guitar. The rhythm is the same on the guitar - you change chords/left hand fingering in fingerstyle at the same time as you move the the right hand fingers. Whereas on the piano, the two can often be completely different, and that's what's stymying me at the moment.
If you watch the chap from the Doors you'll see his left hand playing is almost trance like because that's the only way he could free up both hands to do their bit. Jools Holland even does to a certain extent when playing boogie woogie. Really concentrate on the left hand part by itself until you can do it in that kind of trance like state then the right will be a lot easier over the top
Likewise a guitarist should instantly know the 4th of anything, because it's the same fret on the next higher string (G to B string aside)
I think it really helps to see the notes while your playing them rather than thinking of the fingering positions like you might on a guitar.
With practice it's becoming easier.
"The Online Piano & Violin Tutor" Alison Sparrow I found her vids on violin good, altjough I never kept up with playing,
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
But it also shows just how far behind I've allowed myself to become.
As for songs, here are a few I've been thinking about tackling:
* Fall at your Feet - Crowded House
* Nightswimming - R.E.M.
* Ice Cream Man - Tom Waits
* Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
* One of these things first - Nick Drake
* Everything in its right place - Radiohead
* Bella Ciao - trad (from Money Heist)
* Mad World - Gary Jules