Piano Tabs - Who Needs Them?

As a piano player you have three choices availableguitarist and all it takes is just rudimentary
to you for learning; these are, note reading, pianoknowledge of a few chords.It's Easy. How hard is
tabs, and chord-based approach.Most studentsit to place your fingers on a chord? It's actually
who use piano tabs do so because they want toeasier for the pianist to do this than the guitar
avoid the note reading approach altogether. Theyplayer. There are no steel strings to hurt the
just want to be able to quickly play their favoritefingers. No need to press down on the fretboard.
tunes without having to invest a substantialJust place your fingers on a chord, depress the
amount of time learning musical notation. Thesekeys, and voila - a piano chord. In fact, you can
same students would be able to learn the pianobe playing and creating modern sounding music
even quicker if they learned a chord-basedmuch easier than the guitar player. Especially if
approach first. Here's why.It's Quick. Guitar playersyou use the open position chord. Here we have a
know this. They don't spend months learning notemodern sound that uses both hands to full
reading but dive into chord playing right away. Incapacity. And it's easy!Don't waste your time
fact, guitarists may be the only musicians who dolearning piano tablature. Learn chords instead. That
this on a regular basis - hence the popularity ofway, you'll be able to sound more professional in
this instrument. Within just a few minutes, theyless time than practically any other
have learned their first chord and are off enjoyingmethod!Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and
music. Pianists can also learn this approach butwebmaster of Quiescence Music's online piano
usually don't because they either don't knowlessons. He has been helping students learn how
about it, or think it's too difficult. They think theyto play piano in the New Age style for over 14
must learn sophisticated Jazz voicing or someyears and works with students in private, in
other complicated harmony first. Nope. A pianogroups, and now over the internet. Stop by now
player can quickly create music as fast as theat for a FREE piano lesson!