Comment by Zambyte

Comment by Zambyte 5 days ago

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I want be able to play music on the piano. I got a nice keyboard earlier this year, and have only really been inspired to dig into it since I got myself a circle of fifths decoder in the last couple of months. I'm confident now that I have the tools to learn and make concrete progress.

I want to get better at speaking to people. I love conversing with people who have a lot to say, but I feel like lately I struggle with coming up with things to say myself. Especially if it's someone I'm not very familiar with. It's not even necessarily a shyness thing or something like that, I've just got a bad habit of carrying an internal monologue that I don't share even when it'd be appropriate, because I don't feel like it's necessary. But communication shouldn't be limited to what is necessary.

wawhal 5 days ago

Try PianoForAll. My experience, fwiw - Pianoforall was instrumental in helping me play real music at parties and make the piano journey rewarding and enjoyable early on. Without that, the early days of learning classical music, music theory, practicing scales, ballads etc were a limbo - you don't feel like you are making progress (even when you are).

That said, PFA only compliments your classical syllabus, not replaces it.

  • RonSkufca 2 days ago

    I am doing something very similar. Purchased a Yamaha piano for my daughter's Piano lessons and I want to learn as well. I have no music experience and was wondering if PianoForAll is good for learning the very basics?

  • Zambyte 5 days ago

    Thanks for the tip, I'll have to check it out :)

calvinmorrison 5 days ago

I have done this in 2025. I picked up a few hymnals at the ol library book sale. They're easy enough, there will be familiar tunes and licks that you can just get, and it's great for sight reading. There's usually 4 lines to follow but you can start with 1, 2, and then do them all. It's a fun skill