Piano exercises!!!! Help ya boy!! Bandcoach!!

[kyng]

Start this off by saying. . .I don't read (or plan on learning how to read) music.


OK. . . now. I was given advice from a musician on my ship. He told me before I do anything, I should first start by doing exercises like Hanon to get my fingers strong.

Does anybody know an in-depth video or videos that will teach you all 60 exercises without having to know how to sightread?

S/N: I've looked into Hear and Play Hanon by Jermaine Griggs and it only teaches you the first 10 and other exercises. I will get into that one later.

Then he told me to move on to Arps, and scales. . .

Do you know any videos for that as well?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

[bandcoach]

If you have no intention of learning to read music then I can't help you - you have no commitment to this from the start, so why should I bother???????, on a more solid note, you should learn to read as it is the gateway to more about how to ab e a musician than any other skill.....

[kmano]

Jimi Hendrix admitted that he never could read the music sheet. Still, on of the best guitarists in the world.

[bandcoach]

mostly hype and borrowed tricks from Australian guitarists

And reaching for someone who has been dead for more than 40 years is really reaching - there have been significantly better guitarists before him, while he was alive and certainly after he died - there is an industry in keeping Jimi famous, just as there is an industry in keeping Robert Johnson famous - died at the age of 26, with a handful or so of recordings to his name, also cited as a great guitarist - certainly inspirational, but great is a little hard to accept compared to what we hear from guitarists in the past 40 years.......

learning to read will open doors beyond your wildest dreams - it should not shackle your thoughts unless you are the kind of person who cannot distinguish between the written note and the imagined note, or the written word the imagined word as it goes with rappers......

oh and and I play, improvise and read guitar as well as many other instruments so I am speaking from first hand experience not second hand beliefs.....

[mwandishi]

Tori can't read. Tori Amos use to joke about not reading music that well when she was at the peabody conservatory and ultimately led her to drop out in her teens. She is an amazing piano player. However, I have to go with bandcoach on this one. While there are many musicians who learn to play by ear and can't read, ultimately it limits your ability to explore music in depth. My 2 cents. good luck.

[Interested Persona]

By read do you mean staff or do you mean just letters like when you describe C major you type C E G?

[Pumpthrust]

By read do you mean staff or do you mean just letters like when you describe C major you type C E G?

He means this:

The grand staff.