We may learn more about music by listening or playing particular music instrument. Mostly, we can identify a genre of music from every tone, rhythm, and harmonization that is produced by music instrument. For example, when we listen guitar performance, there is something identically pop, rock or sort of blues and jazz. Simply, Guitar can be said more friendly-genre; means that we can identify more than one genre from its performance. Meanwhile, saxophone tends to jazz or swing taste, or violin is more depressive symphony instrument in orchestra. Piano and drum seems clearly to be two opposing character instruments.

You can compare the feeling experience after listening or playing between piano and drum. There is a contrast characteristic within. We can identify that piano is more melancholic instruments that identic with pop ballad or jazz touch. It is very easy to identify jazz inside piano identity. Piano produce ballad tone and calm harmonization, even mostly it has difficult scores. However, it is superb in creating peaceful sensation to listener or player itself. Nowadays, many people want to learn piano. They take a piano course, or find private teacher, learn through online or follow the instruction from piano DVD. They learn from basic piano lessons until continue to the highest level as professional ones. After passing the basic lessons, they may interest to learn much more about improvisation, technical performance or something specific learning such as piano jazz.

We know drums as symbol of a beat music style, which is officially related to rock genre. Of course, it makes a drummer is always identical as hard personality, challenger, and happiest person in this earth, because certainly there is no a name of sadness in its performance. Drums always produce beat tone with mostly fast rhythm and bring more our energy when we playing it. Listening drum performance is pumping our fun and become a happiest person for a while. Drums can throw away our depress or stressful. Many people start to play drums is not only about to be an expert but they want to find a relaxation and happiness from the music itself.

We won’t reach any satisfactory results without some efforts. This is true for those who want to be professional pianist or drummer. Indeed, your talent is a gift, but you can make it works perfectly without extra-practice. The success is not happen instantly. Practice is fundamental factor for you to be expert in playing piano and drums. Practice takes a lot your time because it needs regularly to do, but it is worthy to reach some progress of your skill. Sometimes it will be boring; learn and practice every time and being discipline for the time. Perhaps, the problem doesn’t come from your practice but actually you don’t know how to practice piano and drums effectively. Of course, If you spend a half hour practicing piano or drums, you want to make sure that you are getting the most from your practice time.

For those who practice in playing piano, please concern some tips to get an effective practice, in order that to reach significant improve to your skill. First, you have to play every day cause It will improve your playing much more than just practicing once a week. Before starting to play, flex your fingers to make them supple. Don’t be in hurry; start playing everything slowly is much better. When you can play the piece evenly and smoothly, gradually work up to the right speed. You won’t get it right if you start out too fast. Try to learn something new every week because you will get some tricks to play well. Don’t be discouraged if you are not getting everything right the first few times around. If you have problems with one particular part, practice that part separately until you’ve mastered it, then try the whole tune all the way through. Theory always supports our practice, so that you still have to learn piano even from your basic piano lesson. To learn piano, besides in course you can find your teacher through online or piano DVD. Last, just relax and enjoy yourself by playing music you already know.

Those tips above also works for you who want to play drums. Indeed, if you start to learn something new, always start slow. Even if you think that you know the beat already, play it slow just to make sure that you are doing it right. Maybe, everyone thought that counting out loud is not considered. Actually, counting out loud is a great way to check and see if you are playing things right. If you are counting and your playing doesn’t line up, you will know immediately that something is wrong. Another important things is please don’t play when you practice and don’t practice when you play. It will support your consistency and improve performance. Finally, just find yourself relax and though the practice is having fun.

Similar to buying antique furniture, buying a piano and drums is also a pleasant experience. Making a choice is always confusing; even you will receive a lot of influence from family or friends in choosing a piano and drum that you want.  The important thing is you have to ensure the quality, type and specifications of these instruments. If you buy a second one, you should really make sure that those instruments are still well used for years later. You also need to know to why you buy those instruments: whether it is used to learn piano or you use drums for your band’s performance. Because it will decide how much budget, you will spend.

If you want to buy a piano, then you must make sure that you want to buy a digital piano or acoustic piano. You can choose an acoustic piano to start your basic piano lessons, because it will facilitate you for practice. The sound production and tone on an acoustic piano is much better than digital piano. Acoustic piano has black and white keys, which includes up to eight octaves. Acoustic piano can create a natural echo in the room where you play it. Acoustic piano is perfect for those of you who want to become a professional pianist. Musician who likes to create songs, record, and edit them directly through the computer system typically uses digital piano. Digital piano is highly recommended for those of you who have a band or working in the music industry.

Similar to piano, in selecting drum set should consider based on your needs and budget. You should know where you will play the drum set at home or in a band, or maybe just to have fun with friends or want a professional drum set. You may not choose to have amplification for your drum, and this will be a factor in which the drum set is right for you. If you are a beginner, it will be good for you to choose a small drum set; it is recommended for beginners with a complete specification. You also have to determine the overall size of the drum because the larger drum works better for heavier styles and smaller drum is best suited for jazz, blues and other acoustic. In the end, you should try to examine prices and quality of the drums or piano that you will buy in every music store. If you have your own piano and drum, it would be easier for you to learn and practice at home while following the instructions of teachers, tutors online, or from DVD such as piano DVD.

You should not only focus to play your piano and drums without giving any treatment for them. Perhaps the drums and piano lessons might not care to discuss in detail about the treatment of both instruments. Piano and drum will produce a melodious sound and follows our play well, if we continue to keep their condition. Perhaps, everyone can play and understand everything about piano or drums, but not all are good in caring for both instrument. They usually thought that if both instruments still have melodious sounds and can still be used, of course they are still in a very good condition. Indeed such thought is completely big wrong. Some specific steps must be considered in caring for piano and drums.

The first thing you can do in caring piano is a tuning / stem on a regular basis. Tuning is useful to re-align the sound on the piano keys that should be. It is good for you in tuning your piano once in 6-8 months in order to maintain stable and strength sound of piano. In addition, you should pay attention for temperature of the room where you put piano. Of course in order to remain stable, the piano should be placed indoor and have air conditioner. Because room with air conditioner is always dry and the temperature remains stable. If temperature in the room keeps changing faster, thus the piano will rust or mildew. Surely if this happens, kind of acoustic piano that still a two-years-old would even look old. You can also make piano scale for your new piano that is completely new from the factory. Because everything is new, has never been touched by human hands, and have not played one, then the scale piano will harmonize all the sounds that produced by piano keys.

In the treatment of drum set, we need to give full attention to the drum-band, drumhead and cymbals. You just need to keep these drum-band in rack and not on the floor, make sure the air around is moist and not too hot. Most importantly, every 5 months / 5 times of use, tighten / set drum-band with a key that has been provided upon purchase. One of the most important things to do on a regular basis is setting the drumhead. Someday, the skin of drumhead will lose its tone, because it was hit constantly. The selection of drumhead skin will be very decisive. While for the cymbals, you need a special cleaner product to care them, so you can consult with the place where you bought drums. If you can take care of both these instruments, sure you will not worry when you play it; learn piano and drums with a good private instructor, course, online or dvd such kind of piano DVD.

In theory of music, note is a symbol that represents a small bit of sound, similar to a syllable in speaking language. A notation is also representing the pitch and duration of musical sounds. Therefore to play instruments and producing beautiful sound with full of harmony, our skill in reading music notes is very important. It would be happened, when we learn to play piano and drums. None about piano and drum can be separated from notes. Reading notes on piano and drums are almost the same, but the difference is only how to apply the notation readings on both of each instrument with different characteristics. Piano is a musical instrument that is played by pressing keys, while the drum is played by beaten through by stick drum.

In piano lessons, we know two keys note; there are black keys note and white keys note. White piano keys are always called ‘naturals’. They sound a natural note when pressed; it is opposed to a sharp or flat. Meanwhile, the black piano keys are called ‘accidentals’ or ‘sharp notes’ and ‘flat notes. Remember, if you’re not sure about notes on the piano keyboard, read piano keys notes. C-D-E-F-G-A-B are seven ‘naturals’ or white piano keys on a piano keyboard. Then after B, the scale will be repeated again on C, therefore it is very important for you to remember those seven notes. On piano keyboard, there are five black keys per octave notes. They can be either sharp or flat, and are named after the notes they modified. These notes are important to be noticed, especially for your beginner piano lessons. This would help you when continued to the adult piano lessons.

By standard drum notation is the most powerful way of communicating a drum set beats. Similar to piano, the notation will greatly assist you in generating a powerful drum thumper, steady tempo, full of harmony and dynamics. Drummer had to be an expert in the rhythm. In standard notation, a note is made up of a note head and a note stem. A note head is seen either as an empty circle or as a colored-in dot. A note stem is a vertical line attached to the note head. Sometimes notes are connected together or barred by a single horizontal line. To explore more about the notes, you’ll get when you choose to learn piano or drums, perhaps through a private teacher, course, internet, or DVD such piano DVD.

Piano and drums has evolved become one of the most popular and influential musical instruments in human history. Back to history, piano and drums have the origin and unique development. Piano for example, was created because of a desire to combine the beauty of clavichord tone with strength harpsichord. The desire was encouraged by Marius of Paris (1716), Schröter of Saxony (1717), and Christofori (1720) from Padua, Italy, to make the piano. However, only the experiment of Bartolomeo Christofori was successfully made a perfect piano at that time. The first piano of Bartolomeo Christofori is also on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As in many other inventions, the piano is found based on technological inventions. The piano was developed from the harp. Even the harp is played by plucking. While the piano is pressed the keys.

The appearance of the drum itself, somewhat older than the piano. In early days of civilization, when man was like beating things to show their happiness because they were succeed to hunt. And it has unwittingly introduced a drum, which gave cheerful and loud rhythm. Nowadays, the drum has been developed significantly. Drums consists of piece of hollowed out (body), which extends to the end of the drum and tuning keys or stiffens peg or loosens membrane to achieve different tones. When we hit drum membrane, then drums will produce the sound. In the beginning, drummer played bass and snare drums by hand, later in 1890s they started experimenting with foot-pedals to play the bass drum. William Ludwig made the bass drum pedal system, which can be operated in 1909: this is the beginning of the development of modern drums.

Not surprised to see many people who admire the piano and drums. They also start to learn piano or drums. They try to find a course or any music school that provides piano lessons and drums lesson. Even in this digital era, we can find the piano online or any drum online that provides music lessons. Alternatively, you can get piano lesson by piano DVDs. There, you will find all insights about piano learn and practice through the instructions.

Nowadays, many teenagers begin to learn musical instruments such as piano and drums, even the most favorite one goes to guitar. Guitar can be more easily learned by self-taught, but not always for piano and drums. Indeed, the teenager can easily beat the drums but they are still lack of improvisation tricks and techniques. Sometimes they just beat the drums for fun, but regardless of the technique and understanding of music theory. Piano can be one of the most classy music instruments, however at the same time it is difficult to be understood instantly. All about piano tends to be more complicated than the drums. No wonder so many teenagers have initiative to search for music course in order to be able to master both of the instruments.

If you ask which is more popular among the drums and piano in the midst of today’s teenagers? Those depend on the tastes of music that they love. But it is mostly teenagers, especially those like the rhythm of rock music that tends to prefer a drum. Moreover, many teenagers make a band with their friends, where the presence of drums is so important. World’s teenager is synonymous with rock music that is cheerful and passionate, and therefore represent the drum is such an impression. Different to piano, this music instrument can be said to be inclined exclusive, which the teenager who have a taste of classical music, jazz, and pop mellow are more interested with piano.

To learn piano or drums are seems like have same complexity. In piano lessons, we will learn about music theory, how the notes and rhythm. Similarly, in drum lessons, we will not only learn to beat the drum properly, but also practicing improvisation and become more sensitive with the tempo and rhythm. To learn piano and drums, we can use some alternative medium of learning, besides through a private course; we can use media online or through any DVDs such as piano DVD. But before we want to learn both instruments music, make sure you have these two instruments in your house, because it will really help you in practicing.