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PIANO HELP!!!!!

KyleEpps	Date: November 29, 2005 @ 6:14 PM hey i've really wanted to get into piano for a while now but when i tried learning by myself i read a forum on Ultimate Guitar and read that alot of people suggested not learning without a teacher b/c of bad habits learned...i can definitely see that being bad b/c my mom plays well but she says b/c she was mostly self taught she has bad technique..so what do you think? how important is a teacher for piano b/c i want to learn as soon as possible so that i can add that into my recordings in a similar way that the Beatles did into their music
Alstroph	Date: November 29, 2005 @ 6:17 PM A teacher for almost any instrument is great. I would highly suggest hiring a teacher to teach you piano.
K3VIN	Date: November 29, 2005 @ 6:29 PM yea piano is a lot of fun but if you dont get taught it you can tend to rush etc. plus you might end up meetihng someone really cool
wailingmiserere	Date: November 29, 2005 @ 6:49 PM Actually I would say piano is probably one of the instruments you are least likely to develop bad habits with when you start... with something like guitar, you are actually producing the tone and pitch of the note itself. On the piano, you have very little control of these things. Obviously a teacher will help you a lot, but it depends what sort of stuff you want to learn and how you want to play. If you just want to use it as a background instrument on your recordings, it would be pretty easy just to teach yourself a few chords (a lot cheaper, too!)
shadowself	Date: November 29, 2005 @ 6:57 PM I don't know about bad habits - I am entirely self taught with every instrument I play, and if you wanna see bad habits, watch HOW I play them. No one even taught me any fingering, and I didn't use any books. Just tinkered until something sounded like something. It's a very good idea to have a teacher at least show you the basics, but find one who will be open to (and even encourage) any sort of improvisation and composition instead of one who will smack you across the hands for not playing EXACTLY what is on the sheet music in front of you.
Alstroph	Date: November 29, 2005 @ 9:53 PM You definitely can develop bad habits on the piano if you don't have a teacher. For example: Using the wrong fingers when switching keys and such can decrease speed while you play.
dissymix	Date: November 29, 2005 @ 9:57 PM with the piano, the only bad habbits you can gain are with fingering. I had a piano teacher for about a year to get me to grade 5 (which he succeded with). However, I still used my own goofy fingering. I recommend having a teacher to teach you the basics of learning the piano to a respectable grade (grade 4/5 mebe) and then you can carry on on your own.
K3VIN	Date: November 29, 2005 @ 10:10 PM btw why is this in the guitar forum!?
Beckerfan101	Date: November 30, 2005 @ 2:20 AM btw why is this in the guitar forum!? Dunno, move this, someone
GeneHilbert	Date: November 30, 2005 @ 2:24 AM I hate moving pianos
Bhairava	Date: November 30, 2005 @ 4:02 AM Yeah, must be tough Gene Hilbert. I wouldn't mind learning Piano a bit too but I'd rather just learn the theory rather then go into loads of songs and stuff. So I thought I'd just see how the theory I know for guitar applies to it and just go straight into it. Helped my theory a lot even though I can't particularly play anything well and I could probably work out playing it over a guitar track to help me out.

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