Since I was a child, I have always loved music.

I was very lucky in that my parents sent me to piano lessons from the age of 11. After a few years, however, adolescence made itself felt, and I naively thought that there were much more important things to discover in life, and so I abandoned my studies.

I became passionate about hard rock and metal, and not many years later I joined a band as a keyboard player, using what little I remembered from the lessons I had taken years before.

Now, after more than twenty years, I finally have some free time to recover the technique and exercise that I have missed in this long period!

Learn to play the piano by yourself

Unfortunately, given my numerous commitments, I am unable to take lessons with a private teacher, so I have decided to follow a path that I hope will give me good results, even though I know that playing the piano is a long-term (never ending?) task.

First, I purchased and followed a course on the famous Udemy platform, called PianoForAll, which focuses on learning the piano as an accompaniment to singing, therefore teaching the most common chord progressions and the rhythm with which to play them.

As the course progresses, this style is enriched with new chords, melodies and passages to make the performance more interesting. Other styles are introduced, such as blues, jazz and ballads and the repertoire can truly become vast.

Classical music

Once I got comfortable with the accompaniment style, I felt the need to improve my technique and coordination between the two hands, and the only way to do this is to do the classic exercises many times. I then found some sources of free sheet music (pianoexercises.org and pianocoda.com).

The second, in particular, divides the scores by degree of difficulty, allowing you to create your own playlist with progressively more challenging pieces.

For the moment I'm learning two grade 1 pieces.
The first is Novelette in D minor, by Cornelius Gurlitt, which in addition to being simple has a beautiful melancholy atmosphere that makes it interesting to play:

The second piece is Pyrenese Melody by Muzio Clementi, which I love for its energy.

The road is very long, but I hope that passion will soon lead me to have concrete results.

See you soon!