take piano lessons

This is a difficult task to get crossed off my list. Early in the year (Feb.) I prepared my guest room and made it into a Piano room. My grandmother is willing to give me her piano. But she lives 75 miles away. Several people have said that they would let me use their trucks to haul it back. But at the same time I have to get to strong people to load it it. Once it’s down at my house I will hire professional movers to get it up stairs. But it seems to be really difficult to get it down here. It’s hard because this goal depends on so many other people.

is one of the best remedies for loneliness that I know. It’s in the category of things that feels so good when I do it, I am baffled that I ever fall out of the habit of doing it every day. It’s like yoga, or going for a long walk in the woods. How is it I sometimes go for stretches forgetting how much I like these things?

That mystery aside, I am glad to have remembered – who knows for how long this time – how captivating it is to play music.

I’ve been playing more regularly – at least when I’m at my home, but I feel stalled with my progress. I’ve been feel frustrated with this, as I’m often out of town, so won’t make a commitment to daily practice and a weekly lesson.

I just called a studio here and asked if they had any ideas for people in my situation. Sounds like they will be willing to arrange lessons either once a month, or every two weeks if I can do that! And, they have a teacher who teaches both classical and jazz, so that will be very good.

I think if I’m taking lessons, I’ll be that much more likely to haul my keyboard with me when I go out of town.

Meanwhile, it occurs to me this may be completely nuts, as my beau is working in another city, and it is not at all certain that he will be able to transfer here as we’d originally hoped. So I may be close to finally deciding to simply move to the city where he lives. I’m tired of thinking, “Oh, we’ll know shortly,” and not finding out. That’s been the case for the last three months at least.

For now, I do live here, and I can probably make biweekly piano lessons easily.

Now I have a piano repertoire of a few very simple songs! I found out that my university offered a beginning piano class, and took it this past spring semester. I loved it. Being able to play a song which required both hands to do two different things made me feel so accomplished.
I hope I get to take more piano lessons someday.

- within 2 years (start by end of 2010)

I’ve enrolled in a practical piano course last May 1st. The course has 12 1-hr sessions, and I’ve chosen Saturdays for my schedule. I’ve been attending ever since. ^^

I took piano lessons when I was in the third grade, and again in college. Now that I will (hopefully) have the time, I would like to learn again

so i took piano lessons a few years ago and i remember i really enjoyed the playing part but i quit anyways. not really sure why… anyways now i want to get back into cause i love just playing around on the piano and i want to get good so i can play all those beautiful songs i love.

I took piano lessons for about 8-9 years when I was a kid. But like most kids, I didn’t take it seriously. I didn’t practice enough and I didn’t care about it—it was more like a chore. So now that I am a grown up I would like to learn again. I’m sure I don’t need to start over, but I’d like to re-train my brain to appreciate learning to read music. I am also interested in learning via the Suzuki Method (learning by ear) but I am not sure if that is the best option when you already know how to read music.
First things first: I need to get a piano. My grandma has offered to give me hers, which is fabulous. However, I am going to have to spend some money getting it hauled out of her house, 75 miles to my house, lifted up my stairs and then tuned. I am holding out on this goal until fall. That will give me time to get everything settled.

Just like with the guitar lessons, I want to take piano lessons since I already sing! I think I’d like to learn the piano first!