Kids Piano

Posts Tagged ‘easy songs’

I want to learn modern songs like linkin park and coldplay or classical songs but no little kid songs i can play those already.

I’ve taken some piano classes for beginners, but they were group classes, and I think the teacher was working more towards getting us to play rather than read. This was in college mind you, so we were all adults. Some of the students had taken piano as kids, and although their playing was quite rusty, they could still read. I learned how to play some easy songs in C (like “when the saints come marching in), but it took me a month of daily practice to be able to play a simplified version of “the Entertainer” by Scott Joplin (not Billy Joel . And I made more progress form hearing and seeing this played by the teacher rather than my having the sheet music in front of me. When I could finally play the song, I wasn’t reading the music at all; I just remembered how to play it because I’d played that one song over and over for a month or a little more. Is this common? I tried to read “Round Midnight”, as well as “Mamanita”(by Jelly Roll Morton), and it looked impossible.