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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psionicist" data-source="post: 2766912" data-attributes="member: 1874">So, for kicks I bought a Yamaha 61-key keyboard today. I have never played a musical instrument in my entire life but somehow I've managed to learn how to play the left and right hand of a simplified version of Canon. The problem is of course using both hands simultaneously, and while I was sitting there trying to make my right fingers press different keys in a different pace than the left hand, I realized it was 1) pretty hard, 2) not at all as using a computer keyboard. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My question is, about how long does it take to learn the basics of piano (well, keyboard in my case) playing for someone who has pretty easy learning new things? With basics I mean you know a couple of songs and can, with a little violence and trial-and-error, figure out how to play basic melodies by "ear" (or "memory" is a better word). I should probably mention here I am _not_ interested in becoming a great piano player specifically, I am more interested in learning new ways of thinking, different ways of using my brain, and different ways of problem solving. Sight-reading would be pretty cool to know too. To learn how to think like a pianist, I probably have to learn how to use the instrument. This is the first step.A little background if the above doesn't make sense: I'm mainly a programmer and math guy. When I decided to learn photography last year, I noticed my math and programming skills helped me a great deal learning photography. More interestingly, I also noticed the things I learned about and from photography helped me in programming and a little in math too. I figured learning photography trained my brain in a completely new way and therefore let my brain solve programming problems and such in new ways (I'm not a neuroscientist, it probably doesn't work this way <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />). So I got the idea of learning music, to help me learn how to think like a musician. It's mostly an experiment and if it fails, well, at least I've learned how to play an instrument. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I realize this is highly individual but are we talking one or ten years?Best regards,</blockquote>

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