If you can type on a computer keyboard without looking, does it mean that you wi

Question:

If you can type on a computer keyboard without looking, does it mean that you will make a good piano player?

I've always wanted to play the piano, but I don't have one and I don't know how to. But I can type quite fast on a QWERTY keyboard (while looking. Not that fast while not looking, and I make a lot of mistakes too). Is this an indication that I'm not going to make a good piano player? FYI, I'm already 18 and I have long fingers.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There are alot of variables.

I am pretty sure that typing well does not translate into "good piano playing" As a non-pianist, you probably think that piano playing happens primarily in the fingers. The best analogy to show you the misplaced logic of this statement, I can give you is that "dancing takes place primarily in the toes" Without proper support and motions of your back, torso, arms, and shoulders, your fingers and hands will be injured very quickly. How many ways can you say, "carpal tunnel"

Piano playing involves your whole body. It involves your torso, shoulders, arms, wrists, hands, (and fingers) and legs and feet. The keys on a good piano will tend to weigh more and require much more pressure than a key on a computer keyboard. Remember, the sound doesn't come from the key itself. The key sets off a chain reaction of levers and hammers that "hit" the strings.

You will also be significantly hindered if you have never studied music notation. Music notation is a language, and because the language learning portions of your brain get shifted into other tasks around the time people hit puberty, it will be much more difficult for you to learn.

With that said, I encourage you to try. Of all the instruments, piano playing causes the most brain area to become active (with the exception of string playing) than pretty much any task at all, whether it be music related or not.