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Ha, thanks! In a way, you are right. I don't enjoy recording the pieces for UA-cam. But these videos are a record of my progress so I don't want to include mistakes And I am super picky about it. This recording nearly wasn't good enough because there were two hesitations that annoy me (which others may not even notice). When I play under other circumstances I care much less about that sort of thing. But also, I think my resting face just looks like I'm in a mood. Over the past year, I've actually been pretty slack with practice, hence the lack of new recordings. There have been several pieces that I've just not finished because with the lack of practice they have taken too long to learn and I've become totally fed up with them. But I've maintained my piano lessons, and even if I've not done anything from one lesson to the next they do keep me showing up. That's the main thing. Music composition is something I've dabbled with and something I am working towards. I've realised that it is the direction I want to take. Playing other people music will never totally satisfy me. But having a base level of skill is important and not just that but a wider musical vocabulary. Of the stuff that I've done so far it's pretty uninteresting. To that end, I've recently followed a recommendation and have started transcribing beginner piano pieces. I'm finding this is giving me a much better understanding of pieces than just playing them. Maybe composition is where this channel will ultimately head.

Great idea. I first played guitar maybe 30 years ago, but there are is harmony theory I’ve only just discovered and it’s really made so much sense I can’t believe I didn’t know/realise until now. Theory definitely helps, but so much of learning piano at first is just getting your hands to do what you want them to do. Hope it goes well!

@ yessir! Thank you so much. I too played guitar when I was a teen. Like yourself, I have a bit of an entry level understanding. I’ll update you in 12 months❤️ I’m subscribing now to keep in touch

You can do it!

@DanielLearnsPiano thanks for feedback, I'm trying!

@DanielLearnsPiano thanks for feedback, I'm trying!

Glad you enjoyed it!

There might even be another following soon. 😱

Thanks

Thank you. That’s very kind. The long run. That couldn’t be more true. The more I play the piano the further away the goal appears to get.

@@DanielLearnsPiano that’s par for the course and means you are always challenging yourself🎹

@@DanielLearnsPiano If it was easy everyone would be doing it! You are making some good noises, keep it up!!

@hippophile Of course. I’ve no intention of stopping. But the longer I play the lower my expectations become. I feel like learning the piano is one of those horror movie camera effects where the further you walk down a corridor the longer it becomes.

@@DanielLearnsPiano what have your expectations been? Playing in a certain way (for example getting pieces easier recorded) or do/did you have playing more advanced pieces in mind? Or both? Anyway, yes, the more you know the more you know what you don't know!

Thank you very much!

Thanks!

Thanks. Piano has take a back seat this year as I've been really busy with other life stuff. However, I'm still taking my lessons so even if that's all I've done all week (and that has been the case more than a few times) it's still something. This has been an enjoyable piece though so it kept me coming back.

I’ve been really busy. Piano has taken a back seat and as such I’ve not finished any pieces to record. I’m still taking my lesson, but practice (and therefore progress) is sparse.

@@DanielLearnsPiano Don’t give up, I’ve enjoyed watching your progress as I started at the same time as you, so similar struggles and playing many of the same pieces. Look forward to your next video in the future 😊

Hopefully I’ll have something to show by the end of the year. 🤞

Thanks. I'm glad you've found this video useful.

I've barely been practicing this past year due to other priorities in my life. There has certainly been no progress.

Don’t get hung up on how fast you progress. Just try and play each day and improve even if it’s just a little. And have fun!

If you say so.

But they've actually been playing for 15 years.

@@DanielLearnsPiano that’s true but they often(and by often i mean almost alaways) lie saying they never player piano before

Thanks for the confidence. Learning the piano has had to take a back seat for a large part of this year so my progress has been negligible recently. But that's fine also. Congrats on the grade 8.

@@DanielLearnsPiano Thank you very much! Do as you please; don’t let anyone tell you what to do. Enjoy music; don’t let “critics” get at you haha have a good one

Yeah, this is an old video. You also appear to have missed the part where I explained I had a former concert pianist as a teacher since about 3 months in. My progress has slowed significantly since this mainly due to my lack of time practicing but I’m still playing almost daily.

@@DanielLearnsPiano That's great! It's no easy task - you're still progressing very well. The top priority is to enjoy what you do especially in music. Sometimes we forget that

Having a teacher really does help me maintain my motivation. I don't have lessons over the summer and as a result my progress really stalls as I have no clear goals and end up not doing much at all.

Thank you. I hope you’re enjoying the piano as much as I have.

No problem.

It’s exactly as it happened. Compared to pretty much all other videos of this nature I progressed extremely poorly. So don’t watch them if you can’t believe this.

How much daily practice are you doing? Lessons aren’t practice they just keep your practice moving in the right direction. I was practicing for an hour a day back then. I’m not suggesting this is you, but if someone did weekly lessons without practicing between then 3 months of weekly lessons (~12 hours) is likely to have similar results. Hours spent doing deliberate practice is probably the single biggest determining factor in progress.

This is a Kawaii CA99

Thank you. This was probably as fast as I could play it rather than a stylistic choice.

Thanks. It might sound weird from someone who has posted their progress online but I think it's best not to compare with others. We all have different things going on in life. My first 10 days of playing were while my family were away on holiday. I may have only played for 30-45 minutes during those days, but there were literally no other distractions.

Thanks. This piece probably took me longer than two years. I still find it difficult and requires practice whenever I try it again. Gnossiennes No. 1 is much easier to play.

It's a really fun piece.

Yeah, you’d play any arpeggiated chords as block chords. It just allows you to get used to getting your hands in position. It’s like a rough version and as you get used to it you can add more detail.

You hear that advice all the time. Maybe it’s correct. But the way I play I feel like I’d still be working on my first piece. I can make a new mistake anywhere and any time.

@@DanielLearnsPiano I think it's really kind of dismissive. Of course pros have to be 100% to include a piece in a performance. When I dip into playing from scores, once I can play through without hesitation, I'm ready for a new piece. My long term goal is to be so fluent with rhythm structure, the keys and reading that I'll be able to sight read. (Not fast pieces. I'm old already!) I see this as a choice apart from progressing to more complexity.

It's good that you've found something that works for you. I could probably do with more rhythm practice. I've found that piano gets progressively harder. The last couple of years have definitely been slower progress.

It was an arrangement from a piano method book.

I’ve already split it with someone else. Soz

It could be in the Trinity syllabus as well, but it was definitely ABRSM at the time.

@@DanielLearnsPianothanks for the reply!

Hey, thanks! It really doesn't feel like it sometimes though. It's taking me longer and longer to learn pieces. Sometimes my piano lessons feel more like a therapy session. HA!

Compare it to your older videos though! Maybe it's taking longer because the complexity increases (ofc lol), but grade 1 or 2 pieces would be much easier now than Idk three years ago

I should try some easier pieces some time and see how long and difficult they are to learn nowadays.

Thanks

Thanks. Isn’t it frustrating? I don’t really know how to practice to avoid this. I can play all the parts on their own, or play a couple linked together. But when it’s the whole piece there will be random brain farts. It’s never a particular spot or else I’d do isolated practice and resolve it.

Thank you! Cheers!

Most 'content' about learning the piano can be filed under unnecessary. These people just make videos about anything to please the algorithm. While it may be best to hold your fingers like that (which is something my teacher says) it's probably not worth your effort working on this to begin with, it probably comes naturally over time anyway. There are so many things that people will comment about my playing that when I refer to my teacher about them she usually just says something like 'well, yes, but it's not a big deal at the moment and there are more important things to be concerned with'.

Try this one. discord.gg/cSBpbgSDMj