In terms of playing skills
Classical music often involves more difficult fingering and basic skills, including finger exercises, various stages of etudes, and various music collections.
Compared with pop music, it is much simpler. If your goal is to play, including but not limited to "Croatian Rhapsody", "Canon", " SUMMER ", "City in the Sky", "Song of the Secret Garden", " river flows in you " "such as. Of course, having a solid foundation in classical music will make your future piano learning go faster and farther.
In terms of rhythm and musicality
Because of the existence of tuplets, pop music will be more complicated and richer in the processing of accents. Compared with the more regular accent processing of classical music, you will find that even simple pop songs will have complex accents, which is very helpful to develop the rhythm and musicality of the piano learners.
in terms of maintaining interest
Anyone who really learns the piano will know the feeling of practicing for a long time in front of the piano, but still can't hear a smooth tune.
The biggest fear of learning piano is to give up. It would not be such a boring and difficult process. It should not be caused by improper selection of repertoire. Pop music and classical music are interspersed to learn, in fact, it is a good fusion.
Pop music is relatively easy to pop up with complete rhythms and tunes, which increases self-confidence in learning and improves interest. At the same time, he did not forget to exercise the basic skills of his fingers through classical music and improve his musical literacy.
In general, beginners can start with simple pop music, combine classical music or fingering practice, and continuously improve piano playing skills, while learning music theory knowledge.
When you have mastered the popular and classical playing techniques and music theory knowledge, it is not a problem to study classical music, jazz, and improvisation in depth later.
But the more core question is what route do you want to take.
If you want to learn classical piano, the premise is that you have to like classical piano repertoire and appreciate the common Daquan songs (here Daquan songs are not derogatory, but are used to describe the kind of classical music that is widely circulated and has a pleasant melody).
For example, Chopin's Nocturne in E flat minor, the first movement of the first piano concerto, Liszt's bell, Hungarian Rhapsody (2), Rachmaninoff's second and third piano concertos, Beethoven's pathos, Tempest, passion, moonlight, Schubert's Serenade and the like.
If these big popular songs can attract your interest in playing, as an adult rather than a child forced by your parents, you can stick to the classical route, insist on "boring" basic finger skills exercises, "unpleasant" various Czerny Etude, Bach of "Fine Points + Other Hands", etc.
If you listen to classical music for a while and feel like "Not My type", then it is better to learn popular piano.
Of course, learning popular piano will also generate classical interest, and the two complement each other.