I myself am guilty of being a non-professionel when I wrote The Sex Life Of The Common Garden Snail. I just enjoy watching. I made the whole thing up from cover to cover.

 

There is information on the internet, but unfortunately neither piano teachers nor their students care about it. What teachers teach their students is only how to play the piano and nothing else. Whereas playing the piano should be taught after theory.
I gave this example above, and I'll repeat it here. If we consider the piano like a plane, the player is like the pilot.
The only people who have the right to sit at the piano without a theory are children, and that's because of their curiosity. Otherwise, adults wouldn't be allowed to touch the piano without a theory license. Without theory, you can't play musical instruments.

 

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I'm wondering why there's no film being released about the things you're talking about. Just as there's no film being made about underground facilities (because they're secret), there's no film being released about professional musical instrument training classes. Deep learning and how to play musical instruments has become a secret, and the things that are published are just basic tutorials.

 

There has been. It's just that you've not been invited to view them.

 

One of the best publishers for musical things: www.halleonard.com

Do-It-Yourself Music Theory
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New Educational Piano Songbooks & Sheet Music
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For kids?

 

All the great composers (whether they were pianists themselves or not) in history were primarily music theorists. You can't find a composer who isn't a powerful music theorist. Without theory whatever you make will be popular music at best. A common feature of all popular music is that none of it incorporates music theory.

 

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Of course also for children, for all those who have already learned to read and understand the content, you can start as a 7 year old if you want and are interested, or as an 80-year-old person if you want to learn the piano again.

 

Here you go @UNSOLID:



Available on the sister site

 

That's nice, I have this book too since 2 years. But I don't really worked with it yet, because I was busy with other piano stuff like learning classical pieces ect. But I always wanted to study it. If you say that it's really good I will look into it soon. Voggenreiter is a great publisher and there are many good books in German.

 

For children beginners it's much easier to learn playing first for a lot of reasons. But if you are an adult beginner who wants to play the piano and composing you need to learn both at the same time. If your brain is ok you should be able to learn 2 things at the same time. It's not that hard. The best way to theory is practical use and for that you need an instrument.

Yes but most of them started to learn playing an instrument before they became music theorists.

 

These tutorials will keep you at the same beginner level. Current musical instrument tutorials are not going to make you a pro. All tutorials are designed and structured in such a way that no one can progress beyond a certain point. If you don't believe me, you can spend a few years of your life in this useless education and then you'll understand what I'm saying. Current education systems don't make anyone a professional musician. Becoming a professional musician requires things that you can't find training for anywhere.

 

Anyone who wants to become a professional always finds ways to improve, for example: piano teachers, studying, self-study—that is, teaching themselves something, or playing scores and music by great masters.

 

Paul McCartney for instance never wrote any of his wonderful songs with theory in mind, he doesn't read music, but rather with his artistic sensibility and proficiency as a player crafts beautiful music and so many others do the same. I myself only use theory perhaps when explaining to someone what I invented only after the fact...maybe.

 

Imagine you are on a deserted island and there is a piano. I am sure that if you have talent you will be able to explore, learn and understand the piano without theory or other aids and then play some great things after lots of practice.

 

This is not true. Playing musical instruments without theory creates the wrong genres. There are many of these genres because they have been created with exactly this vision in mind.
I can confidently say that most genres of music that use musical instruments are completely wrong in theory, but unfortunately, there are so many of them that they have gained power worldwide and no one can do anything about it.

 

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Anyone can do whatever they want with an instrument at home. You can even develop your own melody or rhythm. You can record a sound, process it with effects, and then play it back, or pitch it, or slow it down so that new sounds constantly emerge. These things aren't in any textbook. Why do they need genres when they can figure everything out for themselves? A child carves a flute, and his grandfather shows him how many holes are needed to play different notes. The child experiments and discovers for himself which note fits harmoniously with the others.

 

How to play "Us and Them" by Pinkius Floydius

 

I think is wonderful that you had the courage to bring this up, I myself keep, I myself, interested by often mixing things up a bit. I will often play professionally with my left hand and semi-pro or sometimes even amateur with my right hand and will use my left foot on the right peddle if I'm feeling positively dubious..


I think it is only by this adventurous spirit that we continue our musical journey to its ultimate conclusion, lunch and a cocktail..