Well, I personally think that, if it is the piano that "feels," the most natural & correct to you--then that is what you should choose to do (if pursuing a musical instrument is still something you might wish to pursue?). Every piano player, no matter how good, or how great, was once in your shoes. That is to say: 'the beginning!' Yes, some seemingly learn to play from birth, or early on as you had initially began, or started out as a child. However, this is not always the case. And while I am not familiar with what it takes to learn the piano, a fairly analogous instrument from a songwriting standpoint, is the guitar. And I do know a lot about how some of them get started out, and sometimes much, much later in life (from reading about firsthand accounts on guitar forums, and such). I'd imagine similar things exist for the piano, as well.
And right now, there are just so many ways, an infinite amount really. . . on how to get started, or learning to play the piano. Whether it is self-taught, through a one to one teaching which can be done virtually these days, to just watching a lot of self-tutorials on youtube, and whatnot. Yes, it would be nice to skip all of this (tedious process), but that's not the way it works is it? if someone were brand new to poetry -- & wanted to just suddenly, "fall-out-of-bed," & know, or have acquired all of your knowledge, and comprehension or interpretation abilities with the reading and writing of poetry, that would be pretty unreasonable to do. And likewise, an analogous expectation can be placed on this.
However, the good news is, if you like (or hopefully, "love!") it; it will become easier to keep going, and learn... little by little, one step at a time (sometimes more can be added to the mix, but keep in mind whatever your end goal is?): do you want to be classically trained, or learn the instrument properly? Or do you want to have at it, and be able to play songs -- make your own music -- not focus so much on the theory and the technique and all of the other things that that entails? Or would you rather take short-cuts? On the guitar, you can pretty much learn every-thing "by ear," if you so choose. Never even need to learn to read music if that is your preference. And so very highly successfully & wild guitar players have made a good fortune and living, while achieving the greatest heights of fame from this theory, or mantra. That said, I'll tell you one little secret, most of the best one's - even if they don't know what to call the thing; the scale, the note, whatever it may be. . . (They still know how to do it--because either those that have influenced them knew it, or those that influenced those who influced them did!).
Point being, it can be done. It can be done. And, I don't want to make any promises, but I'd bet if you were to begin sometime at or around the First of The Year, for instance, by the Spring & most certainly Summer you could begin to see some rather noticeable results. Depending on your goals, that may even be playing or writing some very basic songs. You don't need to do a whole lot to generally impress people on a musical instrument (especially for those who are not musicians themselves). I mean, I don't even play so I can't translate or transpose music from the guitar to piano like so many others do. But I believe there are some fairly close "translations." And I even know how to find, what is it? The C Major Scale, maybe? so: (C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C); or, I think. . ? It's something like that. . ; ) If you're interested on the thoughts of others here, you might even make a thread asking for suggestions on how to go about learning the piano. All I know on the guitar, is, there's almost no right or wrong way, you've just got to find the method that works best for you (& how you learn).
And right now, there are just so many ways, an infinite amount really. . . on how to get started, or learning to play the piano. Whether it is self-taught, through a one to one teaching which can be done virtually these days, to just watching a lot of self-tutorials on youtube, and whatnot. Yes, it would be nice to skip all of this (tedious process), but that's not the way it works is it? if someone were brand new to poetry -- & wanted to just suddenly, "fall-out-of-bed," & know, or have acquired all of your knowledge, and comprehension or interpretation abilities with the reading and writing of poetry, that would be pretty unreasonable to do. And likewise, an analogous expectation can be placed on this.
However, the good news is, if you like (or hopefully, "love!") it; it will become easier to keep going, and learn... little by little, one step at a time (sometimes more can be added to the mix, but keep in mind whatever your end goal is?): do you want to be classically trained, or learn the instrument properly? Or do you want to have at it, and be able to play songs -- make your own music -- not focus so much on the theory and the technique and all of the other things that that entails? Or would you rather take short-cuts? On the guitar, you can pretty much learn every-thing "by ear," if you so choose. Never even need to learn to read music if that is your preference. And so very highly successfully & wild guitar players have made a good fortune and living, while achieving the greatest heights of fame from this theory, or mantra. That said, I'll tell you one little secret, most of the best one's - even if they don't know what to call the thing; the scale, the note, whatever it may be. . . (They still know how to do it--because either those that have influenced them knew it, or those that influenced those who influced them did!).
Point being, it can be done. It can be done. And, I don't want to make any promises, but I'd bet if you were to begin sometime at or around the First of The Year, for instance, by the Spring & most certainly Summer you could begin to see some rather noticeable results. Depending on your goals, that may even be playing or writing some very basic songs. You don't need to do a whole lot to generally impress people on a musical instrument (especially for those who are not musicians themselves). I mean, I don't even play so I can't translate or transpose music from the guitar to piano like so many others do. But I believe there are some fairly close "translations." And I even know how to find, what is it? The C Major Scale, maybe? so: (C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C); or, I think. . ? It's something like that. . ; ) If you're interested on the thoughts of others here, you might even make a thread asking for suggestions on how to go about learning the piano. All I know on the guitar, is, there's almost no right or wrong way, you've just got to find the method that works best for you (& how you learn).
I want to learn the piano properly, not just enough to "impress people" thats not why I want to learn it, I want to learn it so that when yet another piece of music creates itself in my head (which they do) and I put my hands on the keys, and everything inside me says that I just have to start, I wont be disappointed when music doesnt happen. Its hard to explain, but it doesnt feel like learning the piano will give me a new skill, like learning anything else would, it feels like not being able to play the piano is a disability, one I have gotten used to. Nothing else in my life has ever felt like that.
As for writing sheet music, I have done that before, I just had no way to make it actual MUSIC, I fed the sheet music into a synthesizer, but it just sounded dead, even a single key on a piano sounds beautiful and life-affirming, but the synthesizer just sounded like a collection of sounds.
p.s. if I can't write-right, it's becasue my internal & external stimuli are failing to properly sync up..
Or just reciting, really, it would work! 