Playing on a digital piano, and really any piano, requires a great attention to detail and patience. It's not like, for example, a video game, that you can pick up and play.
And it's also not necessarily a situation where, if you've played on digital piano, you've played them all. Each piano brings a little something different to the table, whether it's how it's how the keys feel, or it's much more in-depth, like how the features and specs for the piano stack up against its many competitors.
But ultimately, the big question is this: Do you need to be extremely smart to play a piano? And the answer, of course, is a bit complicated.
Intelligence and the Piano
I think we should start with the fairly obvious answer here. No, you don't have to be a genius to play the piano. You don't even need to be extremely smart. That's not to say that the piano is a dumb man's or woman's hobby, but just know you don't need to be a kid prodigy or a savant to €get€ how to play.
With that said, playing the piano takes a lot of hard work. There's a reason that piano instructors not only charge so much money, but will visit someone's house to give them lessons.
It's in an involved thing to learn, and you need to be committed. Think about how long it took you to understand a different language in school. Did you ever understand it fully, or did you just understand bits and pieces of the language, and soon forget it once you graduated from high school?
Well, when it comes to playing the piano, it's sort of the same thing. You're sort of learning a language here. And the more you use the language you learn, the better chance you have at remembering the language and being able to recite it from memory without looking at the cheat sheet on your palm.
Suffice it to say, you will have to work hard to learn how to play a digital piano.
It says a lot of time, and, quite frankly money. First off, if you buy the digital piano yourself, you'll need to shell out a few hundred dollars for that alone. But if not, even if you just use the piano that your instructor has at their studio or school or place of business, you still have to pay that instructor by the hour to give you lessons.
Second, you really have to listen. That's sort of a lost art in our society now. But you have to be able to take direction very, very well. You need to be able to watch how the instructor plays the piano, and listen to what he or she says about playing the piano correctly.
Then, and this is a big thing, but you need to be willing to make mistakes. Truthfully, and though this may sound brutal it's the honest truth, you need to be willing to fail. And you can't be a bad sport about it or feel like giving up when you fail. Because you will fail€"we all fail when we try something new. That's just life. But if you stick with it, you won't regret it, and you will have expanded your repertoire of unique things that you not only learned, but also can do in the world.
So do you have to be smart to play the digital piano? No. But you have to be disciplined to not only understand how to play it, but be great at it as well.
And it's also not necessarily a situation where, if you've played on digital piano, you've played them all. Each piano brings a little something different to the table, whether it's how it's how the keys feel, or it's much more in-depth, like how the features and specs for the piano stack up against its many competitors.
But ultimately, the big question is this: Do you need to be extremely smart to play a piano? And the answer, of course, is a bit complicated.
Intelligence and the Piano
I think we should start with the fairly obvious answer here. No, you don't have to be a genius to play the piano. You don't even need to be extremely smart. That's not to say that the piano is a dumb man's or woman's hobby, but just know you don't need to be a kid prodigy or a savant to €get€ how to play.
With that said, playing the piano takes a lot of hard work. There's a reason that piano instructors not only charge so much money, but will visit someone's house to give them lessons.
It's in an involved thing to learn, and you need to be committed. Think about how long it took you to understand a different language in school. Did you ever understand it fully, or did you just understand bits and pieces of the language, and soon forget it once you graduated from high school?
Well, when it comes to playing the piano, it's sort of the same thing. You're sort of learning a language here. And the more you use the language you learn, the better chance you have at remembering the language and being able to recite it from memory without looking at the cheat sheet on your palm.
Suffice it to say, you will have to work hard to learn how to play a digital piano.
It says a lot of time, and, quite frankly money. First off, if you buy the digital piano yourself, you'll need to shell out a few hundred dollars for that alone. But if not, even if you just use the piano that your instructor has at their studio or school or place of business, you still have to pay that instructor by the hour to give you lessons.
Second, you really have to listen. That's sort of a lost art in our society now. But you have to be able to take direction very, very well. You need to be able to watch how the instructor plays the piano, and listen to what he or she says about playing the piano correctly.
Then, and this is a big thing, but you need to be willing to make mistakes. Truthfully, and though this may sound brutal it's the honest truth, you need to be willing to fail. And you can't be a bad sport about it or feel like giving up when you fail. Because you will fail€"we all fail when we try something new. That's just life. But if you stick with it, you won't regret it, and you will have expanded your repertoire of unique things that you not only learned, but also can do in the world.
So do you have to be smart to play the digital piano? No. But you have to be disciplined to not only understand how to play it, but be great at it as well.