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Piano is a different class of instrument for a beginner- just major scale fingerings are a major job because they are different for each key, where with guitar you just slide up and down the fretboard and play the same pattern.
And the fingering are (slightly) different for the left and right hand.
6 months of lessons with a good teacher will give you a grounding with all of this and then, assuming you work at it, you can go off on your own.
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There are lots of online videos that are useful to learn chords. I play the chord with my right hand and the root note two octaves down with my left hand. Using one finger per bass note, chord changes are a matter of using the 'correct'' finger to match the chord being played. Feels strange at first but muscle memory gets built up over time. Not very accomplished but it works.
Start simple, play along with songs and stick with it. If playing chords is the limit of your requirements, fine. You need lessons to further your playing skills. Much the same with guitar really.
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#2 & #3 is what I would like to achieve. Will have a more thorough look on YouTube & see what they have starting from rock bottom
For this, sounding all of the required notes for an entire piece, all the way through, in real time, is the opposite of the task at hand. All that is necessary is access to eighty eight keys. Then, decisions can be made about how the notes should be distributed between the instruments of the ensemble that will eventually perform the piece(s).
As far as I got with them it started two hand coordination, simple reading and learning chord inversions that go together using simple pop tunes.
It also helps to think in relative notation terms, i.e. I ii iii IV V vi viiº & 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.
(If you really want to take it any further after learning the fundamentals, then you can learn to play the other keys in their natural positions.)
Using this method I can play fairly complex pieces in any key, and I can compose new song outlines in minutes.
Good luck!
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I've ordered these & will let you know how I get on:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Keyboard-Player-Picture-Chords/dp/0711930414
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Piano-Player-Book-Bk/dp/0711904316
The OP said he wanted to learn chord construction and reading and it is much harder to do that alone than having a few conversations with someone who knows the correct way to approach it.
It can be done alone though- I've taught myself piano from method books but could already harmonise the major scale and could already read music.
Doing it without those two skills is a bit like trying to grow your own food in order to make dinner.
Lessons is at least giving you the recipe (or is it the ingredients... I think my analogy has run out of road).
But you are right- there is a lot you can do without having lessons.
@Duotone- some useful things about chord construction and inversions.
Play a C major chord (notes C E G).
To play the first inversion take the root note up an octave- E G C
The play the second invasion, take the E up an octave from there: G C E.
Work this out for all the chords of C major: C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bm b5 with all their inversions and you will have harmonised the major scale.
Then do this with 7th chords.
Then start taking that through keys through the circle of 5ths.
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I figure if I can play Tipitina, I can play most professor longhair and other styles as an extension.
I believe that the Alfred's books are the self-tuition books to get - I'm sure there are forums dedicated to people progressing with them.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adult-All-One-Course-Technique/dp/0882848186/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Scale fingering and some L/R hand independence has been my main focus, and I'm getting there, but unlike a stuck now (9 months in) as I need to start playing actual songs.
There are are a bunch of great piano based YouTube tuition channels, this is one of them. Piano is great for applying music theory in instantly gratifying ways. If you have a basic grounding from guitar and can follow along with some chords you can get to feel like a wizard within minutes.
For example:
“Harmony Crash Course: how to make boring chord progressions sound better”
https://youtu.be/J0xz0DrvZ9A
Will check out that channel.