It has been centuries ago sinced I have taken the time to learn how the piano again. First there was summer and summers are for hanging outdoors. Then when autumn came the next and still there was no playing option. This was because some home renovations and the piano needing to be somewhere else. I can tell you, moving a piano is not so easy and you need a couple of people with you to get this job done.
The next part is then getting the piano back out of storage into place which took even longer. All this time I didn't play. You know what happens when you don't give something the attention that it needs. It makes your skills drop exponentially. And since I was still a beginner in my piano journey, that means my skills are about back to zero again.
For leaning how to play the piano there are two things that are important if you ask me (I guess a lot of people who actually know what they are doing will disagree on this though). You need to have the technique to actually play the piano, and you need to know what to play by learning how to read sheet music.
Simply Piano
Now that is when my 'Simply Piano' app comes back into play. I think one the most important things on learning how to play an instrument is that you need to have fun while doing it. I remember being a kid that my friends had to go to music lessons and they hated it. That will surely not help your progress.
For me now the motivation is intrinsic because I want to learn how to play and also I enjoy whil playing so. Every time when I start I play until my hands are soar or I don't understand the sheet music any more. This is also the moment when you realize that doing something like this actually makes the body heat go up. I'm always warm after playing and it wasn't even because of exercizing.
Simply Piano helps with having the fun in there. You have the option to use regular sheet music, or you can use these passing-by screens. I like these a lot because they connect to the midi system on my piano. So whenever you make an error, the tone gets red but you can still continue. While in the sheet music, you have to hit the right note before being able to continue.
Now this is the puppy version of 'Yellow' in the category Essentials. Levelling up, you play the same song but with more notes added in there making it more challenging and more realistic. Regardless....I was out of the game for so long that I really needed to start back at the essential before progressing to the more complicated versions.
On the good note...It is coming back to me quite fast. Not in a day kind of fast, but I am noticing the progress already after fumbling around again for a couple of days.
This is also a different option on how to start learning how to play the piano. For me for some reason, this doesn't really work. It is more about the lengths of the tones, and when using a tablet a sheet music, this feels more than extremely confusing
Yellow
So I have never really noticed how basic most of the Coldplay songs are built up. Ofcourse they add a lot more notes and chords in there and play it faster, but the basic is truly understandable for a music beginner.
That makes them fun to play as you can easily recognize yourself in the song.
Yes, I am totally back to being a beginner and I am also totally fine with it! At least there is some progression again!
