Hi again, and welcome to
the piano challenge. Things have changed
a little since my last post two weeks ago.
I found myself becoming very bored with the tuition book I was using –
it seemed to be all reading and theory, and , well... I was bored, found myself not wanting to do
it and, subsequently, I was getting nowhere.
So, I changed tack. I picked up
my daughter’s first piano book, Piano
Time by Pauline Hall (Oxford University Press, 2004), and have spent the
odd half-hour here and there over the last fortnight working through the
book. So far, I’m up to page 15, and Au clair de la lune, and can already
combine the left and right hand (which feels like you’re splitting your brain
in half!), read the music more readily and
I feel excited about learning to play.
It doesn’t feel like a chore or an academic exercise now, and I can’t
wait to move on to the next stage.
