learn to play piano

I love a piano. They’re big and complicated and beautiful. There’s something so exquisite about just sitting and listening to Debussy or Mozart. I want to know how to play those songs I love so much.

Moved keyboard to dining room so I wont be so far away from it. Worked last week. Happy.

after NAATI

I have the longest fingers, and all my life people have asked me if I play, and I’ve never been able to say yes. I played the violin when I was little, but I was terrible at it, and got bored of just making screeching noises!

I moved to the UK when I was 18 and have been toying with the idea of doing it for ages, and now I finally think I’ll just get on with it and do it. I’m finally finishing my higher education in a week (!!!) so its one of the first on my list – find a teacher, get it done.

Yann Tiersen. Just it.

It has been quite some time since I have been on here to do any updates. I have still not met my goal of playing “Yesterday” (turned out to be a bit more difficult than I expected). However, I am progressing well on “Lady Madonna”. I am also learning “Imagine” which is an extreme struggle, but I am not giving up on it.

Overall, I am progressing, and can actually play some not so simple tunes. I am definitely going to keep working at this goal.

It was one of my childhood dreams to learn to play the piano. A year ago I bought a relatively cheap digital piano but I couldn’t afford to take lessons. I got a few pieces of sheet music of children’s songs I knew well, and started teaching myself. It took me a while because I really never learned to read music, at least not very well. Bar by bar, I finely wrote in pencil the letters for the notes I remembered next to each note. Then, I tried to put my fingers in the right places on the keyboard. I was able to correct myself by hearing whether the sound seemed right. After a few weeks I was able to play two-handed, and now I play easy to intermediate classical pieces.
Two things enabled me to learn the piano. First, I was able to explore on my own. Second, I had had early exposure to classical piano music. My grandfather and other relatives played regularly and well, but they never taught me. Whenever grandpa played I sat on the sofa mesmerized. I stored all the melodies in my head and could sing and hum entire Brahms and Chopin pieces without being able to read the notes or play them. I never thought this kind of musical storage would ever be of any use to me, but it definitely helped me learn this instrument.

Called a local lady who offers lessons to people from all walks of life – reasonably priced & does lessons until 8.30pm which suits my working lifestyle perfectly!

Once I’m all settled into my new home I will be booking lessons – so excited & proud of myself for getting back into this after so many years!! :)

I think I am sound deaf, but I love music, including classical one. My dream is to own a piano and take classes… :-)

im getting formal lessons for a month i know its not enough but i hope it will give me some basics. the goal is to be able to play “canon”, i beleive that i can do it and i will make it happen. practice makes perfect. anything that my mind can concieve i can achieve.