Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist
Welcome to my practice diary.
Many, many years ago (approximately 35!) I played Double Bass, so while I am not new to music I am new to piano. I decided to get "serious" about learning to play in October/November of 2022, learning on my own at first.
I'm editing this in December of 2023. It's been an interesting year - I took my first piano lesson in January, which resulted in an injury and what ended up being about 3 months away from the instrument (after I realized I shouldn't be playing at all). I wasn't sure I would be able to play again, so I deleted all videos that I had made previously. In May, my son needed to switch teachers again as the teacher he had started working with in January just did not work out. So I began to consider re-starting my own journey of piano adventures. My son and I both have the same teacher, now, and I am beginning to feel more confident and am thoroughly enjoying learning not only how to play the piano, but lots of other fun musical stuff. We sing solfege, too (I may or may not post videos of this!), which I have found to enrich my personal enjoyment of listening to music - and I've always loved to sing, even if my voice isn't so wonderful.
Comments are welcome - I look forward to seeing everyone in the various challenges and community concerts!
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Beethoven Sonatina G Major mvmnt I, week three progress. It is now in a listenable condition! Hopefully ready to move on to mvmnt II in a week or so!!
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Michelle R what a delightful sonatina! Nice work!
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Michelle R You are making such speedy progress! And I can tell you are learning strong technique already.
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Sindre Skarelven Gail Starr Thanks so much for listening and commenting. This little sonatina has been fun to learn. I'm lookng forward to learning the second movement!
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Continued work on the Beethoven Sonatina. I will be starting the 2nd movement this week!
On the first movement, I'm maintaining slower-than-performance-tempo-practice to gain some much needed continuity and confidence. This recording is with the metronome at 76bpm (ultimate tempo goal 100-110 to the quarter note). I started using the pedal in the coda at the request of my teacher - not so sure I like it after having played the rest of the movement without pedal. I'll have to play around with it to become accustomed to this new sound and then decide whether or not I like it.
