Where Piano Playing Retirees Get Information and Encouragement
The approach to learning modern piano is somewhat different than if you wanted to learn classical piano or jazz piano. Modern piano style is very much chord based, so knowing your chords are very important. Learning to read music, especially reading a melody line would definitely be useful for playing modern music, although not absolutely … Read more
Learning to play classical piano can be quite different to how you learn to play modern piano or jazz piano, because there are obviously significant differences between the three genres. If you want to play classical piano, then you will need to learn to read music. With the other genres, it isn’t quite as necessary … Read more
If you are interested in learning more than one musical instrument in your retirement, then I think that learning the piano is the best to learn as your first instrument. Clearly, not everyone would agree with me because we all have our own biases, including myself. I think learning to play the piano first is … Read more
It doesn’t matter if you have never learned music before. All of us have to start somewhere and not everyone has been fortunate to have the right set of circumstances to learn music before, and not everyone has had the opportunity or priveledge to be able to have piano lessons when they were younger, or … Read more
Maybe it is just me, but so often I get stuck with thinking that things have to be perfect or else they are not worthwhile. In reality, I know I am not alone in this type of thinking, as there exists a term to completely discribe this – perfectionism. Perfectionism can cover a huge way … Read more
Obviously, I am no psychologist, I am a music teacher, but here is what I have figured out from a few decades of teaching. There are some people that will give you a whole lot of reasons, seemingly sound reasons, why you should not learn to play the piano. The first reason why some people … Read more
I don’t know why it is, but it seems that periodically and definitely randomly, your piano practice will be just a disaster. The same is true for piano lessons – that every once in a while they just happen out of the blue. These occurences that I am refering to , are not when you … Read more