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Don't do it! Learning to play the piano is a beautifuland rewarding experience. Keep at it, and you will be blessed with a lifetimeof enjoyment.2.       Figure out how you are going to startlearning. Will it be with a music teacher? In this case check out theclassified ads in your local paper. Sometimes local community colleges might bea cheaper alternative. Or maybe you might want to consider taking an onlinecourse. After all these are much more affordable, and are especially goodchoices for those of us who learn better on our own.3.       There are electronic devices outthere that can help you along your learning path. The Piano Maestro forinstance, is a strip of lights that you lay out on your keyboard. When thelight comes on, play the key. Pretty simple huh? But also very effective, anddefinitely worth checking out. Also various software online, some available forcompletely free can greatly enhance the learning experience.4.       As well as learning the techniques ofplaying the piano, make sure you dedicate at least some time every week tosurrounding yourself in the culture of piano. This can be anything fromlearning about the history of the instrument, watching documentaries, to justlistening to your favorite classical or contemporary artists.5.       Speaking of dedicating time, this issuper important. You must, absolutely must, figure out a practicing regime foryourself and stick to it at all cost. No excuses. Either before work or after.Early morning or late night. Set up a schedule that you keep day in day out.Practice playing the piano two hours per day maximum, or else you will burnyourself out. One hour for practicing the techniques, and one hour for reading,theory, culture, etc.6.       Start with easy songs. Try learningsomething by one of your favorite contemporary piano musicians. Then, pushyourself to harder and harder material. Even if your goal is solely to playpopular modern music. If you strive to learn some challenging classical pianopieces, soon playing those contemporary songs will become a piece of cake, andyour confidence will be through the roof.7.       Here are some pointers to learning anew song  on the piano once you have mastered a little technique, andlearned how to read music. Sight read the piece. Try to imagine what it willsound like in your head. Look out for any particularly difficult passages. Thengo through the song with the right hand first. Next go through it with theleft. Once you are starting to get comfortable with both, one at a time,combine them, and just see what happens. Now slowly try to work through eachphrase until you've mastered it, and then move to the next.8.       Do your best to not repeat mistakeswhen learning piano. If you find a particularly challenging phrase, practice ituntil you can nail it every time. By simply moving on to the next, thinking thatyou'll get it eventually, you are simply reinforcing failure as an option,which just leads to sloppy piano playing technique. If you truly want to masterpiano, you must learn piano the right way from the start.9.       Know which notes you are playing onthe piano. By this I mean, that you should be able to not only play the pieceby reading the sheet music. You should also be able to play the piece frommemory, and furthermore, you should be able to recite each note individually,as well as have some grasp of how each note will sound. Not all people arecapable of perfect pitch, however, imagining piano music in your mind willimprove your technique a great deal. Give it a shot.10.   The Final Tip to Learning Piano Successfully is discipline.Yes, learning to play the piano is not going to be easy. There will be manychallenges, many of them mental and psychological. You are going to have toovercome your desires to give up.  The end result is a marvelousachievement, the pleasures of which most people will never know. But you will.Stick to your routine, follow the hints in this guide, and you willsuccessfully learn how to play the piano.Thanks for reading this helpful little guide. Hopefully you found someuseful information, maybe a few ideas, and hopefully a little inspiration. Onceagain, good luck on your journey to learning the piano.