I know and have expressed the absolutly essential idea to get a teacher, no matter what the circumstances or the age if you are starting out to learn to play the keyboard. Part of my knowledge of that necessity is from experience. I am convinced without any doubt that I would have progressed much farther and done much better over the ten years that I have been playing the keyboard than I actually did if I had gotten a teacher. Now at the age of 70, and as far as I am down the road in playing, I am not as excited about learning as I was when I started (at 60), even though it was an activity taken on just as a retirement hobby. I play for a small church, and for a men's group. I read music slowly. I have a question, though. For T-Block, SJ, Ferrente or others in this forum. If you weren't concerned about progressions, chords, keys. transcribing, etc. and only wanted to become proficient at the skill of reading music, where would you concentrate your study? Are there tools, study aids, a silver bullet that would allow you to progress speedily in the area of reading?
berbie