Some people keep a daily progress of what they are doing, mine might be a weekly one. I'm talking about my piano progress skills. Some days they are going better than the other days, that is why it it doesn't make sense to go for the daily progress.
Week 1 was all about making decent progress and learning where my hands should be.
I have started making my baby steps by using the 'Simply Piano'app, which makes exactly the sense to me as a beginner as I would want to. A lot of repetition and more than you would even want.
I am a beginner starting from zero, so any repetition I do not see as any waste of time. It is all about learning the position of the hands, and getting a natural feeling with it.
For now it isn't natural at all as yet, but I do see progress in there.
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So what have I learned this week?
I have learned the position on the Bass clat and the treble clat (is this the right word for it in English? In Dutch we call them the G string and the F string) and my right hand can hit all 10 white pedals (also...how do you call them?) and shift up from left to right.
'The piano man' is an example song for this. It is a song I really want to play from the heart without using sheet music. We always used to have this song at the end of the evening in the bar, and I want to easily play this every time it should be time to go home ;)
The cool thing about the 'Simply Piano' app is that you can choose from different direction. So you can do more chord training, or you can do more song playing.
This week also a Christmas challange also started with a variety of songs. I am also trying to play those, because that fits the season naturally.
I have also been working on the chord playing in combination with the bassline. So that means your right hand is playing 3 fingers at the same time, and your left hand is also doing 1 finger with that.
Shifting these aint easy, and that is the nice practise time. Because with chords everything always sounds good very fast.
This is about it. It looks complicated, and actually it is not really, because it only uses 4 basic chords for the verse basic. You have to start with the basics, no need for details for now.
I am totally cool with getting the basic 4 chords here now, and coming back in about 6 weeks for the high tones in there. That is how it works. Again: repetition over the weeks.
So that is it! For week one it wasn't too shabby at all, and I will continue to write about the process over the next couple of weeks!