How Long Does it REALLY Take to Learn Piano As An Adult?

Today we're going to address a question I get asked all the time: How

long

does

it

really

take

for an

adult

beginner to

learn

to play the

piano

? Today I'm going to give you three paths you could

take

as an

adult

beginner to

learn

. the

piano

and I'm going to cover how

long

it will take you and which one is the best I recommend staying until the end because the final path is the fastest and if you want to see more videos on how to go from scratch to play your favorite songs on the piano in months , not in years.

Make sure you hit the bell and subscribe because I post new videos every week. I have witnessed all these paths as a piano teacher. I have taught piano for over a decade and have a music school with hundreds of students. I have taught private lessons, group classes in the public school system in many different ways, so I feel like I am very familiar with how many paths you can take and which ones will be the best. faster, but if you want a

really

clear roadmap on exactly what steps to take, I highly recommend taking my free training.

In this training, I show you the exact steps I take my students to help them go from zero to playing their favorite. songs in just a few months the link is in the description below okay, path number one, you guessed it, traditional private piano lessons, potentially you've already tried it in the past and there's a reason it didn't work, this path will get you It will take tons of years and if you're starting out as an adult, you may never get to where you want to be. Private lessons will usually use method books designed for adults, but they still teach you as if you were a child, so you'll start those lessons playing Mary Had a Little Lamb and all kinds of silly songs and you'll get stuck in those silly songs for a long time. time.

All of these method books will help you get started reading music on the grand staff. So because of this, students end up having a hard time reading music all the time and they get really stuck playing all these silly songs trying to learn how to read music, this really slows down their actual ability to play the piano with traditional private piano lessons. piano. I have to learn to read music with both hands learn to play with both hands learn to add the sustain pedal learn to keep the beat in exact and perfect timing learn to be expressive and not sound like a robot learn a lot of music theory while playing songs haters, this is a complete recipe for disaster, no wonder why so many people quit, like I said, many piano teachers will teach these adults as well as their children, the difference is that adult students simply have much less time than children and children are very used to learning to read, write and all kinds of very simple things, so learning to play Mary Had a Little Lamb as a child will not be as frustrating as it is for an adult .

I know you are an adult student and want to play the piano because you want a personal outlet. You want to play for fun. You've always wanted to play. Why do so many piano teachers teach you as if you were a child and make you where you will never be able to play your favorite songs. I have no idea. The only time I would recommend this is if you want to get into the nitty-gritty and you want to learn classical music and you really want to. To read music so well and so perfectly, but be prepared to take lessons for basically the rest of your life, this method will look a lot like this foreign one.

Now let's move on to the second way you can learn to play the piano, and now it's on YouTube. I have to be honest with you, although I obviously have a YouTube channel. I don't think learning from YouTube is the only way to learn to play the piano. It's going to be very confusing if you look at all these different teachers with all these different methods and you don't have any roadmap, you're just going to be really lost for a long time and as you can imagine if you're learning on YouTube you're going to spend your whole life watching these videos and getting nowhere I promise you that if you don't have a roadmap and you don't know anything about music or piano, it will be very difficult.

I think YouTube is a great way to find out if you love piano, so play some of my exercises. learning from some of my videos and getting started to really see if you really love it. I think YouTube is great for that, but I don't think you should stop there before moving on to the next way to learn to play the piano, let me know. in the comments, have you done any of the methods I've listed so far? piano is to find a program where the teacher teaches you the chords first. Why do I recommend this approach?

If you learn the chords first, you can play your favorite songs from the beginning. You can go to websites like ultimateguitar.com and search for your favorite songs. play them almost immediately, this way you can start learning real songs and play your favorite songs right away, you won't have to stick with Mary had a little lamb, this way you will always enjoy learning to play the piano and it won't feel like a lot of stress and overwhelming feeling, so here's an example of what you could do with just chords. The beginning of Adele's song, easy for me, is really beautiful and it's just chords.

Thanks foreigner, you have to work with me, but in my program the piano accelerator. I start my students off by learning all about the different types of chords, how to find their favorite chords online, and how to play them really fast, once they master those really good chords. I start teaching my students how to improvise with those chords because let's be honest, sometimes chords can sound boring on their own, so at this point in their journey they become really amazing accompanists and if they want, they can even sing and play , so here's an example of something if you knew how to play those chords with jazz. a little bit, if I just played the chords from Coldplay's Clocks it would sound like this, thank you, but of course you can jazz it up and play it like Coldplay and play it with arpeggios, but of course there are many ways to play jazz.

Improve your core with improvisation and in my online program I give my students tons of interesting ways to do it. The last step in my students' journey is learning to read music from sheet music, so yes, I teach my students to read music, but teach them with something called lead sheets, if you don't know what a lead sheet is , it's like a cheat sheet for reading music, all you have to do is learn to read the right hand or treble clef, which is the Melody of the song and then, since my students already learned about chords, they enter the chords that they already learned and they play them with their left hand and since they already learned to improvise, they can improve their song with the melody and make it. yours and it sounds really cool and nice, so here's an example of how I jazz up the song Piano Man with a lead sheet, thanks for learning the melody, the chords, jazz it up, it's just great and in my opinion opinion, this is the fastest way. learn to play the piano and it is also the least miserable way to learn to play the piano, let's face it, if all this sounds great but you feel like you need a little more, you want to learn more about all these steps to learn to play the piano quickly .

I highly recommend checking out my free training. The link is in the description. It shows you the exact roadmap I take my students on that helps them go from zero to playing their favorite songs in months, not years, and before you start, be sure to ring the Bell and subscribe for more videos on how learn to play the piano fast and I'll see you next time, thanks.