How I Learnt Piano

Ok. So I know I haven’t been writing regularly. And one of the reasons is that I am not practising efficiently these days. Hence I am stuck…

The last time I wrote it was so long back I don’t even remember. Since then I have been working on one piece and one piece only. And boy…

Few days back I started working on the piece Little Brown Jug from the Alfred’s book. The piece seemed a bit difficult initially, mostly…

Over the past week, I have been working on several pieces from the Alfred’s book. I tried out 10 different pieces, and was able to complete…

I am writing after a while because I really wanted to have something to showcase here instead of just putting words to paper. So I (sort…

I have been writing here since February. When I initially envisioned this project, there were two major end goals:

I just finished watching the third lecture from the course Listening to Music and this was on the Fundamentals of Rhythm. The main…

Yesterday I watched the second lecture from the course Listening to Music. It had to do with musical instruments and genres. There was…

In my last post I discussed how I am having problems playing staccato using my 4th finger. The plan was to practice it slow until I am able…

I have started to learn a new piece from the LCM grade 1 book called In The Hall Of The Mountain Bear. When I first looked at the piece I…

Before I started learning Piano, I didn’t listen to much classical music. Even now I only listen very little that too to more recent…

I am back from break. It’s been so many days since I played piano. Strangely, I didn’t miss playing it while I was away. I did watch a few…

As I mentioned in my last post, I started learning a new piece called Square-O. The new skill to pick up before playing the piece is being…

Another day, another piece and another challenge. This time it is swinging rhythm. The piece is called Square-O and the instructions say…

Let me start this post on a positive note, and then later get to the sad part. I have completed the piece I was working on this week. It…

This might sound extremely naive and amateurish, but the satisfaction I get when I am able to play a chord progression is immense. A couple…

In my last post I mentioned that I have started learning a new piece called Cowboy Song. The melody is simple and catchy. I had learnt it…

I stuck to my resolution of not picking up any new pieces and worked on improving the last three pieces I learnt. Two of them, I can…

As beginner pianists, a lot of what intermediate and advanced players so seems next to impossible to us. Maybe something like playing…

I met my music academy’s founder last week when I went to class. We had a short conversation, which went like this

For the past couple of days I have been working on Song Without Words by Fritz Spindler and I love the piece. The main attraction being…

I had my piano class today. I played Scarborough Fair for my teacher and he was satisfied with how I played it and so we moved on to the…

Again, I am partially done with a piece. Partially because I can play the notes but not musically enough. Let me show what it sounds like…