#learning piano

[labratofthemonth]

hi

i play piano so i’d like to take this time to document the songs i can play fully (in the order of learning them), and rating them based on how hard they were to learn:

•mary had a little lamb, 0/10, literally not hard to play at all

•final duet (from Omori), 7.5/10, it wasn’t horrible, but there were parts that were absolutely horrible to learn

•good ending title theme (also known as “do you remember”) (from Omori), 4.5/10, not hard at all, most of the plot of Omori could have been avoided if they just learned this version instead. it’s cool how i can line it up to Remembrance though

•main title theme (from Omori), 1/10, this was so easy i’m not even kidding

•der flohwalzer, 0/10, learned it to make a danganronpa joke, but it was so easy, i learned it in about 10 minutes

•BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA, 15/10, will wood, i love your music so much, but holy hell this about gave my brainrot trying to learn this. this song is roughly 5 minutes, it took me months to learn, AND YOU HAVE TO SING TO IT. singing to this song while playing it is like spewing buzzwords rapid fire while trying to slam your fists into your keyboard in a coherent way, AND THEN having to deliver that 5 paragraph essay of a monologue in the middle of the song, which I CANT EVEN DELIVER. I HAD TO SWITCH TO THE BLACKBOXWARRANT VERSION OF THE MONOLOGUE SO I COULD ACTUALLY FORM A SENTENCE. anyways, my favorite piano song i’ve ever learned, i love it so much

•Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, N.Y. (Bones), 10/10, so complicated, i almost wanted to rip my bones out by the time i got to the ana stands and rends her rancid meat part. AAAAAAAAA

anyways, thank you, i really wanna learn White Knuckle Jerk next, because it’s my favorite will wood song (YEAH I SAID IT, FIGHT ME), thank you for your time

[amorcitadream]

Playing piano is bittersweet. The process of learning a new song is painful and frustrating. Yet, once your fingers learn to know the rhythm, it's a beautiful harmony you forgot you ever struggled through.

& that song, is the same of life.

[hismercytomyjustice]

Type on my computer all day?

My Wrists: Let’s fucking gooo!

Type on my phone all day?

My Wrists: Hell yeah, brother!

Crochet for hours?

My Wrists: We got you, boo!

Practice piano for like an hour?

My Wrists: What the actual fuck?! Jail for mother! Jail for One Thousand Years!

[disturbedgent]

I love piano class.

[a-shooting-jade]

As someone who plays guitar and reads off of tabs (never even the treble clef) and has just decided to learn piano... What the fuck is the actual deal with the grand staff...

Like I get it... I get it I really do... But also I don't get it.

(me; at the grand staff)

[thesafecafe]

I teach myself small songs to play on my piano sometimes, and recently it's been the fist verse of mary had a little lamb

[dxmxuse]

finally dropped my “i’m too old to start that” mentality and bought my first keyboard piano so if anyone has youtube lesson recs or easy sheet music it would be much appreciated 😌

[luminarai]

I’ve been thinking about getting back into playing the piano and unlike when I was playing as a tween there are all these fancy piano teaching apps (I felt ancient when I found out there are apps you can plug into you keyboard like WHAT) now and I can’t figure out what I should go with.

Does anybody here have any experience with apps like pianote, flowkey, joytunes/simply piano, or others? I’m not quite a beginner, still know the basics of reading sheet music and such, but it’s been years since I’ve actually touched a piano so I’m more than mildly out of practice.

[shrcker]

if anything, I've learned today that piano is extremely painful

[atheusa]

today i’m so fucking proud i learned piano.

i learned to play one song that i’ve been listening to lately.

it’s i’m not in love by 10cc or kelsey lu.

i’ve resonated with it so much because i’ve been talking to this guy i like for a while now. he makes me crazy, even if he’s so far away.

i only did the melody part, the right side of my hand. and that’s fine.

because my cousin was doing the left side.

but maybe tomorrow, i’ll learn both hands.

[oceanandspring]

My first non language or literature focused post! I feel like I am using tumblr wrong since all I post are rants... and I am planning on using it like a blog/life journal. I think I will try to write one larger post a week with that weeks dates. Like a weekly journal entry maybe?

Anyway, that is not what this is about. I am relearning piano! I played piano in a semiprofessional capacity for about four years. I played for my highschool and for community recitals in the past. I began learning piano and playing when I was about 14. I stopped playing piano almost five years ago. I really want to get back into it. I picked up my old piano lesson books. Luckily I can still read sheet music well. I am glad I never stopped singing choir as it allowed me to retain some of my previous music knowledge. I don’t have a proper piano anymore as it was sold by my parents, but my sister has a keyboard that I can practice on. My sister also plays piano. We used to attend lessons with the same teacher when we were younger. I miss those days. Regardless of missing the past I am excited to learn again. It is never too late to pick things up as an adult!

[crash-likes-cookies]

An Interactive YouTube Piano you can play using your Computer Keyboard numbers

(Check the YT-vids comments for songs & famous melodies)

[hismercytomyjustice]

This is the issue I have with learning piano.

I played violin for over a decade. I played pieces like this:

Because of that, struggling with stuff like the below in piano drives me fucking crazy.

Like I can read it (even if bass clef makes me want to weep in a corner). But I can’t fucking play it. Or at least not easily.

My teacher has compared it to learning another language, which makes so much sense. But being fluent in violin makes it SO HARD to be patient with myself as I learn piano. T^T

Logically I know they are two very different instruments and that practice and familiarity are key. But being viscerally aware of how much of a skill gap I have between the two is MADDENING.

I am def improving, BUT MADDENING I TELL YOU!

…yes my teacher recommended I remove the note write-ins I added. my whiteout died in the middle of it…

[gutzy]

pov; you're listening to clumsily learning how to play my piano with both my hands

[megisamazing]

Okay so I used to play the flute (and various other woodwinds) for a long-ass time (like, years and years). I was not great at it, because I learned in the United States public school system, which means I was largely self-taught, but I was pretty good.

I haven't played anything in years. I was doing okay in adulthood--I'd had some gaps where I didn't play, but I would find local community colleges with bands I could play in, from time to time. Then I moved again and then covid happened and I haven't so much as looked at a page of sheet music since then.

I missed it so much. But there's no community colleges near me with a band, and also my living situation makes practicing not really possible (the flute can be quite loud, believe it or not).

So I found a used Yamaha digital piano and started adult piano classes. Now I can practice with headphones on!

I just started and I am terrible, but it's really fun!

[aro-throughyourchest]

Guys what the fuck are these. Keys.