Where Piano Playing Retirees Get Information and Encouragement
In December, in Australia, life can be extremely busy as there is not only Christmas events to attend, but for those who have school age children, it is also the end of the school year. Because I have teenagers, I have a really busy December each year. What I have realized is that whilst everything … Read more
If jazz piano is what you truly want to play, then there are a few requirements. The first thing is that you need to learn some traditional, classical music. This is because the fundamentals for jazz is the same as classical piano. By learning a traditional, classical style of piano, you will get a thorough … Read more
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