So you want to learn how to play the piano, but you don't want it to take years and you don't want it to be painful.
This seems reasonable.
Not a whole lot of people like to spend a lot of time and energy doing something difficult only to fail miserably! It doesn't have to be that way, though.
Learning some basic and cheery songs can be easy if you let it happen and approach it from the right direction.
Perhaps you have tried before and given up because you thought it was too hard.
Yet you know it is a good thing to learn and it sure would be cool to be able to play.
Would you consider learning again if you knew that this time would be different and you would master the instrument? Or is it that you have admired the beauty of the piano, looked at the keys and the pedals below and thought, well, this is nice but it looks really complicated and I dare not even try.
There are lots of ways to learn how to play the piano.
Some are easier than others.
Some have different goals than others.
We are looking for the easy way, and there is nothing wrong with that.
You have some options here.
You could go buy a book about it and work your way through that.
I have done that and it's not so bad.
Just to be able to hit the keys and make a pleasant sound felt great.
Unfortunately, I also found it clunky and slowly paced.
I also had a piano teacher and that had its ups and downs.
I really hated being criticized, although of course she was right.
Slowly my enthusiasm for the piano waned.
Scheduling lessons became a drag and although I made some progress it was slow.
The easiest way I know how to learn piano is to make it into a game.
That's the best way to learn anything because you can make it fun.
Have fun while learning the piano.
Incorporate as many game elements as you can into the process.
It helps to have a computer to do this, and if you are reading this article then you have one and that's a great thing.
You can learn how to play the piano easily using some great online instruction.
Some of these programs do include the game idea and some are more formal, but it's an easy, no pressure way to begin.
If you'll just take action and start it's all downhill from there provided you choose the right course of study.