Suppose
a man from Mars comes to earth and wants to know what is a piano, how will you
describe it to him. You will be struggling to describe what is a piano, we are
so used to the piano as a musical instrument that is well known and a necessary
part of music, particularly in Western music, that we will not be able to give
full justice to its description. Western music, be it classical, jazz, rock, or
blues is not complete without a piano.
Pianos
come in many types, grand piano, or upright piano with the keyboard. It is not
easy to learn to play piano, one has to learn from a trained teacher, who knows
which key produces which sound and which finger needs to be used to press it.
The piano teacher guides a student to use one finger, whole hand, right or left
or the combination of both hands. A touch on the wrong key and the whole piece
of music sounds strange and weird. So if you want to learn piano properly, you
need to join top piano courses. Everyone has to start with
a beginners course, even if you want to become a professional piano player or a
music composer you need to join a beginner's course first, where a tutor
teaches the rudimentary art learning the notes of music, fingering, and how to
read the music from the music sheet. It takes hours of doing boring fingering
exercise, where you keep on hitting the same key with the same finger, for
hours an end, till your ears get attuned to the musical note produced by that
particular key.
Once you have become
familiar and comfortable with all the keys, you are allowed to play basic
tunes, like Baba black sheep, or twinkle twinkle little star, before you are
can play real classical piano music of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and others. To
get the mastery in playing classical music, you have to become a master. As a
master you can take part in a piano festival. However, before you can take part
in the piano festivals you need to take music courses on the international
levels, where students, who want to become professionals, music teachers and
pianists who have just started their careers, take music lessons in piano. After
successfully completing a master's course, you are ready to take part in one of
the famous piano festivals, at
international level, where renowned piano players come from all over the world
to play and compete with each other.
The list of the piano
festivals is exhaustive; some of the
famous piano festivals held in Europe and America such Atlantic Music Festival,
New Ross Piano Festival, and Miami Music Festival. Pianists from all over the world perform to
the delight of the audience. In the United Kingdom, two popular piano festivals
are Battersea Piano Festival and the Birmingham Music Festival. The Birmingham
music festival is a competition, where
experts can try to win the competition and by learning piano you can
participate in any event easily.
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