Where Piano Playing Retirees Get Information and Encouragement
This can be a bit tricky to work out whether you should follow the fingering or not on any given piece of music. On top of this, everyone also seems to have an opinion on what is best practice, so here is what I think should be the case. First of all, if you have … Read more
Maybe it is just me but it seems like there is a pervasive notion that expresses the thought that you either know it all, or you know nothing. Now you and I get that this is simply not true – there is a whole lot of in between. Maybe the reason why this is on … Read more
I know this sounds quite strange, particularly coming from a blog the is all about giving information and encouragement to retirees to learn to play the piano, but hang in there because there is very much a point I want to make. One reason that you should not learn to play the piano, is because … Read more
Learning to play the piano should be an activity that is taken up because a person would like to play the piano. Learning to play the piano as an adult really shouldn’t have any other reason. Playing the piano has physical benefits, the number one being maintaining or even building fine motor skills. This is … Read more
There seems to be an ideal age for learning to play a musical instrument. For the violin, my understanding is about the age of 5, the guitar is when the child is physically big enough to be able to put there right arm over the body of the guitar and be able to reach the … Read more
I haven’t thought that I am overly opinionated, in fact I pride myself on being a fair and reasonable person, but I must confess that every time I see an ad on Facebook for a ‘Learn to Play the Piano’ course, I get really irritated and automatically assume that it is probably not that good. … Read more
Learning to play the piano is not the easiest skill to learn. Most people would agree with this. But what most people think is that challenging or hard equals impossible and that is certainly not the case. For starters, most people believe learning to play a musical instrument is only meant for the gifted and … Read more