For a beginner piano student scales are fine but you will soon get tired and loose interest. You need some good piano books and a varied assortment. If you focus on scales alone you will never branch out and enjoy what learning piano is all about.

Staying interested is a chore but playing music that you prefer makes a difference in the long run. Your piano playing will reflect your enjoyment of what you are learning to play.

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.

The music will just come to you. You can hear a song once, and can sort of feel the shape of it in your head. Oh, if you want to play it note for note exactly as it has been arranged originally, you will still probably need the piano books, but if you simply want to be able to come up with a version of it that sounds good whenever the occasion calls for it, you will probably need nothing but your own wits, and your nimble little fingers. Then you can put all of your piano books on the curb.

Your time and effort will be rewarded by beautiful piano playing. Do not give it up. It is a life long devotion that has gotten me to play what I love.