So you have discovered some piano and get excited to lastly begin playing your favorite pop songs. You obtain the sheet music and sit down with terrific anticipation as you begin to study through the music. Based on your capability, it could possibly be seconds or minutes later, but eventually you find yourself saying in total frustration, "Why does not this sound proper?!?". Do not worry just however, it could not be you.



You have just uncovered what I believe to be the worst customer service the music publishing sector offers to possible players, that pop piano sheet music is often dumbed down to basic notes for much easier playing. The problem is, most instances it's also straightforward, and doesn't quite sound suitable. From time to time, if there is a specific piano introduction (like in Adele's "Someone Like You"), that's transcribed relatively accurately, but once you get to the meat with the song, you will see plenty of fundamental notes, frequently simple quarter notes, half notes and in some cases entire notes. One fast listen to the recording and you will conveniently notice that the music is more complex than the sheet music suggests. So why create it that way?



I definitely do not have the answer as to why publishers do this. Probably they want the music to become accessible to someone at any skill level. Perhaps they consider piano players never practice as substantially as guitar players (you can often find precise transcriptions of guitar parts). Whatever their factors are, the music around the web page doesn't match up using the recording. So what's a player to do?



The answer lies in understanding the structure of pop music. And I'm utilizing the term pop music to mean something non classical; rock, nation, jazz, etc. If there isn't a particular piano part to play, like there is certainly in some intros, then you are going to be playing from the song's chord structure. So to play pop types of music, you are going to will need to learn ways to play chords on piano.



The truth is, even most qualified pop music piano players do not get classic sheet music. They get what's named a lead sheet or chord chart to play from. That is just a list of chords inside a song, occasionally with all the melody written with it so you may follow along. These kinds of music notation do exist within the publishing planet. They are known as fake books, or often actual books. Playing this way, with this type of written music is usually a matter of studying what the chord symbols mean and playing a piano portion primarily based on these chords. This is why classically educated piano players usually struggle with pop music, for the reason that their understanding of chords and their variations is often restricted. Studying additional about playing piano chords is not going to only unlock the mystery of pop music, but will provide you with access to an incredible deal of music, because the variety of attainable chords are restricted. The truth is, you are going to discover that lots of on the songs use the similar chords. So understanding even just a number of chords will provide you with the potential to play a fantastic quantity of songs.