Learn to play the piano

I have finally started practicing since getting back to school—I love playing piano, and I actually have the urge to practice all the time, whereas at home I just wanted to be lazy. And I am getting over my stupid little fear of people being able to hear me. I was practicing late at night, but I moved that time up a bit today! So maybe I will finally start to get better, though it may be hard without guidance from my teacher. Maybe the next step is getting up the guts to ask someone I know for lessons, but then again, I am so much more comfortable working at it alone. I shall see how it goes and maybe ask for help if I decide that I need it.

I need to stop being ridiculous about this: I haven’t practiced since I’ve gotten back to school because I don’t want people to hear me sucking at the piano in my dorm (which you can hear even with the door to the room closed). I could do it early in the morning (no, that would require waking up) or late at night (but I want to get more sleep!) when people aren’t around, but why the hell won’t I just go in there anytime and do it?! I’ll work on gettting up some guts…maybe make a friend sit with me? Or I could just get over it!

I’ve had my lessons for the summer…now it’s just up to me to practice and make progress throughout the school year. Hopefully, I won’t get too lazy.

I have finally gotten more “into it.” I can just sit down and practice, and I practiced a lot in the past two days. My lesson, the third one, today was a huge improvement over last time-I didn’t get quite so flustered when I didn’t know what I was doing. I realized that I hardly remember any of the terms, so I should probably read up on that. And I was never good at sight reading, so I just need to keep practicing that-a lot more! My hope is restored! I am not sure though, when I can check this off as worth doing. I suppose I will just have to wait until I have made enough progress to say to people that I know how to play the piano.

It feels so good to be able to play a beautiful song, even if it’s a short piece (and not perfect)!!

Second lesson…not so good. For some reason, I cannot do anything in front of my teacher…I do better practicing alone, and then, when I have to play for her, I completely screw up and get flustered. She is very nice, but I guess when people listen, I just hate the feeling that they are sort of judging what I’m doing..I hate when people watch me do things. Obviously, to get better, I need that judgement, but it makes it more difficult too. I almost felt like quitting today, and it disappoints me that I get discouraged so easily. Of course, I’m not going to quit…I would not forgive myself for letting the opportunity go again…this is something that I really want to do, and I just need to work harder at it. Hopefully one day, I will be able to sit down in front of any piece of music and play-I would love to play Rachmaninoff-but that’s a long way off for now.

I had my first lesson in about 6 years tonight. My teacher is great…very nice! She made me sight read…I’m a bit rusty. I’ve got a lot of practicing to do, but I’m excited to do it, although I know that it may get frustrating. I wish I could bypass leanring basic stuff and just be amazing, but I’m willing to work to get there. I don’t plan to give up piano a second-or umpteenth, rather-time. I just have to make myself sit down and practice everday after working for 8hrs during summer vacation…that’s the hard part!

I have a lesson on Wednesday! I’m not sure how consistant my lessons will be this summer though, with me being out of town, then my teaher being out of town. Hopefully I’ll be able to take lessons when I get back to school too. I’m sure it will work out though…I’ll get enough lessons in. I’m a bit nervous about my first lesson though—it’s been so long! But I’m also very excited! I won’t have to listen to the piano anymore with that “I wish I could do that” feeling.

When I was younger, I took piano lessons on and off, and now I really regret that I did not stick with it. At this point, I cannot really play anything (except, very badly, the song from my 7th grade recital!). I’ve tried to kinda read notes and figure out how to play something (other than those simple lesson book type of songs), and I really can’t do it. I’m trying to get some lessons while I’m home for the summer—hopefully I’ll be able to get some with a good teacher!