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As a beginner piano player with desires to be a pianist, you need a variety of piano books. It is essential. Practicing scales is not good enough to learn piano. If you spend all your time on scales you will never get to the good stuff and will get very tired of the same old thing. You will give it up and loose interest.

To keep interested in piano try playing songs that you enjoy. It will be more fun and allot more interesting. It is important to keep your attention and it will show in your music.

Piano learning has many books out there that you can easily get. You don’t have to settle for just classical. Keeping your interest is vital.

I like a variety of books. I get piano books of the masters of course, but then I like to play popular music too. Your friends and family want to hear something they recognize. It makes it fun to play at parties. Being an entertainer means pleasing the crowd now doesn’t it? Be sure to cover the music spectrum and get a well rounded assortment. You can take requests too!

Remember to get books of music that you don’t like because others will. You can never tell what the crowds will request and you want to be ready. You could start to like playing Mandy.

When you have studied enough books about piano and looked at enough songs you will begin to get that you don’t even need sheet music to play. You develop an eye to go with your ear. You will hear something on the radio and be able to plunk it out before you know it. The ah-ah moment will eventually come for your as it did for me.

After a while music will just play in your head. You will hear a song just once and you will see the notes in your mind. If you want to duplicate what you see in your head then you will need the sheet music. You will be able to visualize how it was arranged by then. But you will probably want to create your own sound. When this happens you will not need your books anymore.

So don’t give up. Dedicate yourself to learning to play piano. It will be well worth it.

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