Practice piano

practice piano waaaay more! I feel I’m not getting better and get ‘stiff’ hand if I don’t practice more. Whats more, I have a whole closet full of sheet music accumulated over the years, I often play half a song and start playing another. I should really finish what I start.

i want to be in a band. I took piano lessons for 8 years and i NEVER practice. I should really get on that!

Mr. Medford taught me at Radford University. He made it easy for me to learn to memorize music. I enjoy Bach,Beethoven…..I have taken this gift for granted. I want to play again for joy.

I don’t own a piano as I live in a condo, but whenever I have the chance to visit my parents I play for hours. Last Christmas I was there for a week, and because of the extra time I now know how to play a few songs by ear!

I think I can mark this as done, because I’ve practiced continually (though not daily) throughout the last two months and know that I’m not going to discontinue it now, even though I’m fairly busy now. It’s very relaxing. The next goal for this is to play a piece by Chopin. It’s so wonderful to listen to his music, how much better must it be to actually play it. I’ll have to take practice a little more seriously to accomplish this (right now, I’m leaving out the dreary parts more often than not :) )

over the last month I’ve been playing the piano fairly frequently. It’s fun now that my fingers have become used to it again. I’m not taking it very seriously, it’s not like I want to be able to play so that it would be enjoyable to listen :D For me it’s already a pleasure to be able to play a few bars wthout a mistake…

Piano is easier for me than guitar. I have a very nice limited edition Martin steel string, but no calluses and very little knowledge of the guitar. I have a longer relationship with the piano.

When I was little I liked the piano but hated practicing – as I had near perfect pitch I could play almost anything that I heard. If I played it through once myself, I had it committed to memory. However, fairly serious brain concussion took care of that for the most part. I have never developed a lot of technique or skill. Hated scales, though Hanon and Czerny were a little more tolerable. Then my mother hovered and was vicariously demanding, and I was rebellious – a good thing in certain cases. But one thing that I remembered that my mom told me about playing a musical instrument was that you could always do that, the rest of your life, for your personal enjoyment (she wasn’t all bad after all – just human). But I haven’t touched the piano hardly at all the last two years, and I didn’t play that often throughout adulthood.

Lately though I have found myself sitting at the grand piano my mother left to my daughter which I am keeping for her until she settle long enough to have to bear the expense of moving it every year or so. It is a beautiful instrument, a full sized Boston grand, with a lovely,deep mellow tone. I sat down to play through the Moonlight Sonata – about as advanced as I ever got – and even as I fumbled through it the music pulled at me. Why do we human beings not allow ourselves to do what feeds our core? One of life’s lessons no doubt. So I have pulled out all my old music and books, and have decided to begin again. Just for me, just for the pure and simple pleasure of playing music.

I used to have piano lessons as a kid, but stopped playing when I was 14 nd could no longer be bothered to practice. I miss it now – whenever I listen to anyone play the piano I wish I could still play well. Now and then I’ve practiced a new song that struck my fancy, but not frequently. Not sure whether I want to commit to this for a longer time span, but right now I’m trying to learn a new song.

.

My keyboard has been sitting covered up for way too long. I have a desire to play it, but I generally don’t think about it until I really don’t have a lot of time to work with it. I’d like to find a program that will let me enter the things I want to accomplish in a day, and it make me a schedule to follow. Would be great? Know of anything like that?