| Yeah, you should transition into keys nicely, especially if you pluck with your right hand. I was introduced to piano first, and after playing bass for a while a going back to goof around with the keys, the strength from playing the bass really improved my keyboard playing.
There is definitely no law in terms of how you have to play on piano, though I think you will find you'll be missing out on a lot of the dynamics and fullness of sound you get from the keys if you play only one finger chords. However, there are lot of pieces, classical music in particular, that don't really used more than one of two fingers to play the bass parts. However, that will be made up for in terms of scales with in the piece, where you have to use all five fingers, and in some cases 10 fingers- even if it's only one note at a time. "Fur Elise" by Mozart is a good example of this (you've heard this song before, even if you don't recognize it by the title). In fact, I suggest you start by getting some easier classical pieces to start learning. The nice thing about a lot of classical music is that it's really not that hard- there is a lot of stuff by guys like Billy Joel and Elton John that's a lot harder- but everyone is always easily impressed if you play classical music on piano.
Odds are, you will probably very quickly attempt to play a cover you've always loved, and you're going to end up using them anyway. And as stated, you'll find out it's not as hard as you thought.
Last edited by Kevinmach : 08-30-2009 at 03:01 PM.
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