playing piano
Making keyboard music
Playing piano is the act of performing music on a piano, pressing keys to produce notes and chords.
The phrase appears in contexts ranging from formal training to casual practice: She's been playing piano since she was six, He makes a living playing piano at hotel bars.
Unlike "playing the piano," the article-free form often emphasizes the activity as a skill or profession rather than interaction with a specific instrument.
- keyboardArray of input keys
- keysLock-operating instruments
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
- ivoriesPiano keys, informally
- practiceRepeated work toward mastery
recital · concert · concert hall · Chopin · classical · fingers · finger exercises · scales · chords · bench · sheet music · sight reading · music theory · pedal · sonata · tickling · rhythm · musician
- fine motortyping, sewing, knitting, origami, threading
- musicianshipsinging, performing, practicing, harmonizing, composing
- talentssinging, acting, dancing, juggling, magic
- pastimeshobbies, amusement, puzzles, cards, crafting
- implicit memoryprocedural memory, priming, conditioning, classical conditioning, operant conditioning
- musicmusic, song, songs, singing, singer
play, piano, plays, played, player, players, playful, playfully, playfulness