Fast Piano Lessons Blog

Piano is hard. It takes a ritual of practicing a little bit each day.

It’s just like an exercise routine: You won’t build muscle if you only exercise for one day and you won’t learn many songs if you only practice for one day.

Start with 15 minutes Today

15 minutes a day adds up to almost 100 hours in a year.

Once you get in the habit of practicing, you can always practice a little bit more, but just getting started is the hardest part!

A Pianist with No Arms

I can’t imagine what Liu Wei had to go through. He lost his arms as a kid from an electrical accident, but still he has learned to play the piano incredibly well.

Set a Goal for Yourself!

If you want to accomplish anything worthwhile, it will take a little work.

When you get frustrated and feel like giving up, watch this video of Liu Wei.

You can accomplish anything you can dream up.

We’ll Hold You Accountable!

Post a comment below to let everyone know some of your goals for this year and all the fastpianolessons.com readers will help hold you accountable!

We’ll check back in a month so you can update your progress! It could be piano related, or any other personal goal you have.

Maybe a New Year’s resolution that you have already abandoned. It usually takes multiple attempts.

This looks like a lot of fun! You can play a keytar that you can stand with or sit down with… About 20% through the video they show someone actually playing the keyboard part for bohemian rhapsody… it didn’t look like the right notes which was kind of a let down… UPDATE: i played along with the song they had and it looks like all the notes were in the right key and it was a good simplified version of bohemian rhapsody. So if you got really good at rockband3, you could then sit at a real piano and play it!!!

but I have a feeling this will make a lot more people want to play piano than guitar because of the challenge on rock band!!! I’m excited! I think we have to get one of these for the piano school in seattle

Here is a favorite quote of mine:
"The journey of 1000 miles begins with one small step" - Lao-Tzu

Don’t feel like you have to get to the end of your journey right now… just keep taking small steps.

I can teach you a new trick on piano in about 10-15min, its just a small nugget… But if you start collecting these nuggets, pretty soon you’re rich!

In other words, practice for 5min here, 10min there. Don’t get overwhelmed by how much knowledge there is out there! Just focus on the next step. …every once in a while, take a breath and look back at how far you’ve traveled.

You’ll be amazed.

Whats taking you so long!!! 

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I usually just post pictures of the music school in Seattle, or from Dueling piano shows and the occasional cool link to a video game

My facebook address is:

http://facebook.com/chrismarx85

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I just finished working on this commercial where i wrote and recorded and performed all the music for a salon in seattle called habitude. Composing and recording is a lot of fun!

Technology is getting so good that one person (a piano player) can record all the instruments and have it come out sounding like a live band played together!