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Piano revisited
Feb. 11th, 2010 10:22 amSo our joint birthday present to ourselves was an electronic piano [1]. It's rather lovely. I played the piano quite a lot until I went to uni, where I didn't have much time (despite having a piano in my room one year). I wasn't great, good enough to scrape through Grade VII, but I liked playing, although I was self-conscious and lacked confidence when I knew anyone was listening [2]. That's OK now because I have some big comfy headphones.
Blimey, though, my fingers are rusty! All I've done so far is scales. I couldn't manage C major on Monday but I can now. Slowishly, but - look, ma! Both hands!
Does anyone have any experience of relearning the piano? Is it worth getting a book to guide me through? I think it would help to have something systematic to work with. I'm not a natural improviser. I want to play decent classical piano for my own pleasure, where pleasure means a good sound produced with a degree of technical proficiency. Any recommendations or suggestions?
[1] We freecycled the old piano: an entertaining anecdote in its own right, but one better performed than internetted.
[2] Strangely, never a problem playing the organ in church. Something about sitting at the heart of a huge machine inside a vast echo chamber unleashed the Evil Overlady within me. Bwaha!
Blimey, though, my fingers are rusty! All I've done so far is scales. I couldn't manage C major on Monday but I can now. Slowishly, but - look, ma! Both hands!
Does anyone have any experience of relearning the piano? Is it worth getting a book to guide me through? I think it would help to have something systematic to work with. I'm not a natural improviser. I want to play decent classical piano for my own pleasure, where pleasure means a good sound produced with a degree of technical proficiency. Any recommendations or suggestions?
[1] We freecycled the old piano: an entertaining anecdote in its own right, but one better performed than internetted.
[2] Strangely, never a problem playing the organ in church. Something about sitting at the heart of a huge machine inside a vast echo chamber unleashed the Evil Overlady within me. Bwaha!
