play piano again

to play some accompanying keyboards for hubby. Finger memory comes back very slow & reading bass clef on the fly isn’t going to happen for awhile, but at least I’m moving in the right direction!

Since restarting the voice lessons, I’ve been playing the Vaccai exercises & bought some easy rock & country songbooks… I’m getting good enough to accompany myself, but hubby is still the keyboard genius, so I’ve got a way to go to be what I consider good…
:)

Like many people I gave up piano lessons in my early teens because I had too many extracurricular activities in my life and one of them had to go. At the time I hated my piano lessons and only started taking them because my parents wanted to have a well-rounded child. I took lessons for maybe five years and was just getting to the point where I could play the good stuff, like Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.

My mother has the piano I used to practice on at her house and it’s just sitting there collecting dust. There are a very few songs that I can sit down and play by memory and I think I’ve forgotten how to read music (at least the bass).

I would like to start taking lessons again, but this will be another long term goal, as once again my financial situation rears its ugly head. Even if I were to take lessons, I would not have any way of practicing as I don’t know anyone who owns a piano (other than my mother who lives 600 miles away).

The fact is I’m never going to make much progress on this goal unless I practice every day & there are too many other things to do… So I play in spurts, and the spurts aren’t always pretty… :)

Quit piano at eleven years old and forgot completely how to play, and behold!, I am playing again and my heart is really in it!
Good luck everyone, great goal!

My boyfriend and I have been house sitting for his parents. THey have a steinway… yes, I am a happy lady!I have had a lot of time to play while he is doing nasty yard work…haha. I make up for it by making a fancy dinner! Anywho, I realize that I really miss playing. I miss the emotional release and the peace that it induced in my soul… so Pete said I can make a room for the KORG in our house…. its no steinway but hey!

I don’t know how I got so bad.
I was once so great.

Now its gone.
It’s so depressing, to even practice drills.. The songs I once played flawlessly, are now out of reach :(

Thanks to my parents I now have the piano I grew up practicing and playing on. I don’t play as often as I’d like, but I play it much more often than I did my keyboard. I have a couple of new old songs that I’m learning. Love it!

recorded it in a notebook of staff paper that hubby bought me two years ago… Now I have to write out the left hand… much harder!

and honestly I’ve been playing much more guitar lately now that I’m getting into the electric, but I sat down tonight & found I hadn’t forgotten anything… Still, finger memory works best when I practice each day…