Learn to play the piano

I haven’t practiced piano since winter break ended, because some idle person broke one of the college house’s pianos. Now there is only one to play on and someone is always on it. I’m going to try going early in the morning to practice, because if I really want to achieve this I’ll have to work for it!

I still fail at reading music, but I memorized River Flows in You and some other pretty song I don’t know the name of. My repertoire now consists of three songs. It doesn’t look like I’ll be able to take piano lessons any time soon, so I’ll stick with teaching myself and struggling to learn to read sheet music.

I devoted one hour today to learning “River Flows in You”, and I can stumble through it fairly well. Most of the time was spent pressing keys to figure out which sounded right (still working on learning to read music) but I memorized the first 1.5 pages. Now I just have to work on playing it smoothly and adding all the soft and loud variations.

Okay, I’m not doing Beauty and the Beast anymore because I honestly don’t have time to play the piano. Looks like I’ll have to wait some more and try to manage my time better.

I did find an amazing new song though… River Flows in You by Yiruma

A couple days ago my college residence building had two brand new pianos delivered. Now we have four pianos…one baby grand Steinway and three upright. My goal is to go every day, probably in the morning, and teach myself to play the piano. So far I’ve gone twice and decided to focus on memorizing Beauty and the Beast.