Community Chat

[LuvSoCal]

@rockygems123 I took piano for 9 years while in school. My parents bought a used upright when I first started while in 2nd grade. I came home from school one day a couple years later and there in its place was a brand new console. My mom was partial to French provencial so it had the pretty curved legs. I couldn't believe my eyes! I haven't played for many years...I sold that piano at the estate sale after my parents passed away. I wish I had kept it because I would like to get back to playing.

[jubilant]

My sister took piano lessons. I chose to take accordion lessons. After 5 yrs, I gave it up....wish I hadn't.

[Harpa]

Piano was my major in college.

That passacaglia poses a bit of a challenge with the left hand in that it hops from octave to octave, and of course, you want each of those notes in the chord to sound as smoothly as possible.

What fingering are you using? You have to be very consistent with that. (I would make that first leap with 5-2-1, and the whole passage: 5-2-1-2-1-2-1-2.)

If you watch a performerce on youtube, they cross w/ fingering, but to me, the 5-2-1 is more fluid.

Whatever fingering you use, you would use it throughout.

There are practice techniques which engrams the notes in the hand/s and leads to beautiful playing. Practice does not necessarily sound beautiful, but your finished piece will.

[Still Raining]

Only had lessons as a child, but if your heart is moving you to try then go for it.  Pleasures can be a wonderful thing.  

[rockygems123]

---

@Harpa wrote:

Piano was my major in college.

That passacaglia poses a bit of a challenge with the left hand in that it hops from octave to octave, and of course, you want each of those notes in the chord to sound as smoothly as possible.

What fingering are you using? You have to be very consistent with that. (I would make that first leap with 5-2-1, and the whole passage: 5-2-1-2-1-2-1-2.)

If you watch a performerce on youtube, they cross w/ fingering, but to me, the 5-2-1 is more fluid.

Whatever fingering you use, you would use it throughout.

There are practice techniques which engrams the notes in the hand/s and leads to beautiful playing. Practice does not necessarily sound beautiful, but your finished piece will.

---

@Harpa 

I'm not attempting to play anything at the moment, just am inspired by that piece to take lessons again.

Thank you for the info though!

As for practice doesn't sound beautiful my sister took piano for 12 years.  After dinner she would play one of the handful of Chopin pieces she "knew" so to speak.

She never got better, would hit wrong notes consistently.  I still don't like Chopin.

And then she majored in music in college ha.

[songbird]

The problem with any instrument that you take lessons on....is you have to continue to practice.  Over time you "forget" and you waken as a player. Piano is one the instruments that you really have to practice on.

[Harpa]

---

@songbird wrote:

The problem with any instrument that you take lessons on....is you have to continue to practice.  Over time you "forget" and you waken as a player. Piano is one the instruments that you really have to practice on.

---

It's the way you practice, though, @songbird . For example, when you know the proper techniques, a 10-minute practice can be so very much more beneficial than an hour!

@rockygems123  Chopin! Oh dear! He wrote some very beautiful piano pieces. Look up Waltz in A Minor. (One of the easiest.)