Is Piano Hard to Learn?

At Boston Piano Lessons, one of the most common questions we’ve asked by beginner or prospective pianists is “how hard is it to learn to play the piano?” The real answer is that people will find piano easier or harder to learn based on many innate factors, including their willingness to practice, experience with prior instruments, and innate musical talent.

That being said, just about everyone can learn to play the piano with hard work and practice! Learning piano will come more quickly to some than to others, but we have a range of beginner piano courses that can help almost everyone learn to play the piano.

How long does it take to learn piano?

Learning to play piano requires lots of unique skills, including coordination, rhythm, music theory and more. Because there are so many factors involved, not everyone will have the same learning curve. However, if you are willing to practice nearly every day, you can learn to play piano within around eight to 12 months.

-        You can learn to play piano  within eight to 12 months to get to a basic level of competence

-        Piano playing requires lots of skills that not everyone will master at the same pace

-        It can take many years to learn to play the piano to an intermediate or advanced level

-        Piano Lessons make it easy for everyone to learn to play piano at a pace that makes sense for their lifestyles and interest level

Can you teach yourself to play the piano?

While it is possible to teach yourself to play piano completely solo, nearly everyone will learn more quickly with piano lessons. Whether you choose to book private in-person piano lessons, sign up for piano lessons online, or download piano classes, beginning pianists should look for some level of piano instruction.

Piano instructors have experience guiding pianists of all levels to meet their goals, whether their students are interested in recreational piano playing, performance piano or playing piano professionally. Because playing piano requires lots of skills, it is best to work with an experienced piano teacher, especially in the early days of learning how to play the piano.

What is the best way to learn piano?

Everyone learns differently based on age, skill level, and goal. That being said, the best ways to learn to play the piano include:

-        Hire a piano instructor or download online piano courses

-        Ensure you have the proper piano equipment and an appropriate practice space

-        Practice piano every day for at least 20 minutes, if possible

-        Consider why you want to play the piano: just for fun, to perform, or even to play piano professionally!

Best beginner online piano lessons

Boston Piano Lessons offers outstanding beginner piano lessons resources, including online and in-person piano lessons and more. We have piano lessons for kids and online adult piano lessons, making us the right piano school for every audience. Even if you’ve found piano hard to learn in the past, we have classes and resources for you. Schedule a 50%-off piano lesson with Boston Piano Lessons today!

Are Drums Hard to Learn?

At Boston Drum Lessons, one of the most common questions we’re asked by beginner or perspective drummers is “how hard is it to learn to drum?” The real answer is that people will find drums easier or harder to learn based on many innate factors, including their willingness to practice, experience with prior instruments, and innate musical talent.

 That being said, just about everyone can learn to drum online with hard work and practice! Learning drums will come more quickly to some than to others, but we have a range of beginner drum courses that can help almost everyone learn to drum.

How long does it take to learn drums?

Learning to drum requires lots of unique skills, including coordination, rhythm, timekeeping and more. Because there are so many factors involved, not everyone will have the same learning curve. However, if you are willing to practice nearly every day, you can learn to drum within around eight to 12 months.

-        You can learn to drum within eight to 12 months to get to a basic level of competence

-        Drumming requires lots of skills that not everyone will master at the same pace

-        It can take many years to learn to drum to an intermediate or advanced level

-        Online drumming lessons make it easy for everyone to learn to drum at a pace that makes sense for their lifestyles and interest level

Can you teach yourself to play drums?

While it is possible to teach yourself to drum completely solo, nearly everyone will learn more quickly with drum lessons. Whether you choose to book private in-person drum lessons, sign up for drum lessons online, or download drum classes, beginning drummers should look for some level of drum instruction.

Drum instructors have experience guiding drummers of all levels to meet their goals, whether their students are interested in recreational drumming, performance drumming or drumming professionally. Because drumming requires lots of skills, it is best to work with an experienced drum teacher, especially in the early days of learning how to drum.

What is the best way to learn drums?

Everyone learns differently based on age, skill level, and goal. That being said, the best ways to learn to drum include:

-        Hire a drum instructor or download online drum courses

-        Ensure you have the proper drum equipment and an appropriate practice space

-        Practice drumming every day for at least 20 minutes, if possible

-        Consider why you want to drum: just for fun, to perform, or even to drum professionally!

Best beginner online drum lessons

Boston Drum Lessons offers outstanding beginner drum lessons resources, including downloadable classes, online and in-person drum lessons and more. We have drum lessons for kids and online adult drum lessons, making us the right online drum school for every audience. Even if you’ve found drums hard to learn in the past, we have classes and resources for you. Schedule a 50%-off drum lesson with Boston Drum Lessons today!

Metadata Definition

Standardizing metadata and terms doesn’t require that the same metadata and terms are used across the whole site collection or ECM repository (like OpenText Content Server) but only that the metadata and terms used are effective in describing the content to which they are applied.  Much time can be lost on trying to standardize metadata and terms and the results do not generally yield comparable value for the time invested.  It is best to consider metadata and terms from a relational perspective.  That is to say, don’t consider how each value can uniquely describe documents but how all the values ascribed to a document uniquely describe them.  Rather than focusing on metadata and term standardization, a better exercise is focusing on what would constitute the smallest set of values to create that unique definition with the understanding that it is the value together as a group which are important.

Meaning is transitory.  Though it is useful to try to simplify the metadata attributes and terms which are being used over time, the effort required to develop a common vocabulary across a large group may not be worth the effort involved.  When we have studied efforts like this, we find that these projects consume a great deal of time and resources without achieving the envisioned results (an organization holding all of their content in single, common, system using the same terms and descriptors).  The problem is change.

Organizational restructuring and personnel changes will always result in a group using a system from being different from the group which devised that system.  The definitions for terminology developed by one group will not be the terms desired by a new group.  Therefore, as a group changes, the terms increasingly have less relevance.

An implementation team should then be more focused on creating descriptors and encouraging people to use them then to spend significant effort on standardizing the descriptors.  Since it is always possible to modify descriptors later or create proxies that tie one descriptor to another, conflicting terms can always be resolved.  What is essential is that the content is described.  As long as this happens then it will always be possible to query and retrieve content later.

In short, an implementation team should attack the low hanging fruit, solving the obvious problems, without going into interminable cycles of metadata and classification definition that have been common within organizations in the past.

Uniformity ≠ Good Governance

A current customer is focused on asserting a standardized folder structure (down to level 3) for administrative and operational files.  When I asked them why they are doing this the justification was that this was their new governance model.

But, does uniformity equal good governance?

No, it does not.  If the structure of your folder taxonomy supports the application of security rules, retention rules, and the application of metadata that can be used to easily find documents, good governance is achieved.  Each group within an organization could do this in a different way using different structures and if the content is secure, easily dispositioned, and searchable the requirement is met.

Too often, we see deployments fail where this standardization mistake is made.  Users don’t understand the new structures and don’t want to use them.  That is a failed ECM implementation.  To encourage use, we want the structure that is presented to be familiar.  We have enough challenges overcoming the resistance to change we so often face when moving folks from their file system to an ECM system. 

Why create more problems?

Instead of wasting cycles on reorganizing things that could be easily left alone, leave it alone.  Unless, of course, your objective is to burn consulting hours inventing new taxonomies.  I guess there’s that.

Time-Destroying Machine

The business of consulting is about burning hours.  Consultants make money by destroying time.  The more time we destroy, the more money we make.

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