The path of learning how to play an instrument isn’t the easiest road. At first there are the long steps of learning how to read sheet music and letting your hands correspond to that. Then a phase of success comes on in. Easier basic songs you will learn how to play and the practise time on them will become shorter and shorter. You will even get the feeling this might be something you will actually be able to learn and do!
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The feeling will be good and you will start telling your friends that you started learning how to play an instrument. They will all be proud of you and hope for the moment when you will be the background music in your meetups when the world opens up again. But then you hit the wall of what I call ‘The stagnation of coolness’
While you are learning more technicalities to your playing such as switching with the right hand from C to D and F as a starting position, and learning how to play even more difficult chords also from a lead sheet position, your audience (and your brain which is looking for more elements of success) will not always this expansion of your skill set.
And that is the point where I am now
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So even though I am getting my timing a lot better than before, and I am learning the more challenging chords ( I have added the A major chord from the left and right hand) and the B major chord (also for left and right and especially the left hand one is a disaster) this doesn’t feel like all of a sudden you are a better piano player.
Even worse, It feels like my timing has left me also a bit more as my hands are looking again to find the right keys on the instrument just in time.
Faded - Alan Walker
The cool thing about the ‘Simply Piano’ app which I am using how to learn how to play is that there is also some modern music in there. Like this Alan Walker song which I really do not like to listen on the radio is actually quite fun to play on the piano.
You can see the B major and the A major for the left hand integrated in here and how I am trying to find the keys in time. All in all I am not unhappy with how this song ends in the end, and sometimes it is good to go back to something that you are a bit familiar with to get the feeling that you are still having the progress
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KEEP GOING...!! My suggestion is always to learn using the Suzuki method - it's natural and soooo easy as it completely mimics the brain process and the way we learn to speak and read/write any language. And, after all, music is simply another language.. Which is NOT at the same time!! Learning to play be ear FIRST takes you to places of enjoyment which sustain learning when it feels like work.
Great to see progress!
Im gonna look up this suzuki method thingy here from you. The app that i use now also has a lot of doing back, rehearsal, 10 minutes an day and all those kind of things in it.
Apparently that is exactly what my brain kind of needs to function and learn something. Continuing the game fo-sho!
Keep learning, practising, and growing! The piano and keyboards in general are extremely enjoyable, soothing, and relaxing! The keyboard-based instruments are truly beautiful! :)