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Hi everyone,

My name is Rich and I live in my weyr here in Colorado. (Ok, I only rent, but since I am obviously into dragons, I can imagine it is a weyr.)

I took piano lessons about 30 years ago. Then I hated practicing in front of others and so almost never progressed as far as I could. I gave it up to go to a private high school.

Back in July, I decided to give it a try again. I picked up some books and a cheap keyboard. A couple of mistakes there. I grew up learning from John Thompson's series, and Faber and Faber doesn't compare. Also the keyboard was not touch sensitive, let alone weighted. I quickly switched to the John Thompson books and bought a Casio PX310 as soon as I could aford to. While I would love an accoustic piano, I don't have enough space in my weyr for an upright, let alone a grand.

Sometime in October I started JT book 2. Soon after I started working on Christmas music with a teacher. I'm much happier with my current teacher than I was with the teacher I had as a kid.

Now I'm working on some easier pieces from the notebook for a m bach and trying to work from there.

That's where I am. I hope I can meet some friends here on this forum.

Rich

PS. The answer is 42. I knew you wouldn't like it. Deep Thought.

DragonPianoPlayer,

Welcome to the AB Forum.

I used John Thompson as a kid and thought they were great books.

Oh, and I can see you are a man who knows where his towel is.



Mel

Welcome Rich!

Hey, I was originally taught from the John Thompson series, too!

And, like you, I had returned to "the piano" after 30+ years.

I chose to NOT go with a teacher (thus far) since the ones I'd interviewed only, "Do classical". As much as I love classical music I want to play other material NOW because I truly "live for the day". I was determined to "re"-figure it all out on my own... uh... which is WHAT led me to THIS forum. I get answers here to questions that I feel too "dumb" to ask.

Stick around, Rich! -- This forum is filled with fun-loving and good-hearted folks PLUS you'll be surprised how much you actually LEARN!

Daria

welcome! PX310 is a good digital to start with, and some people on this forum has the same thing too.

enjoy your playing!

Welcome to the forum, DragonPianoPlayer. My daughter is into dragons in a big way, so I live in a weyr, too.

I'm glad to hear you have a teacher you're happy with. That will help immensely.

Welcome to the forum, Rich
I returned after 15 years reading notes now is killing my eyes

Cminor

Thanks everyone.

Daria, one of the big pluses about my teacher is the fact that he has played in a Jazz band, so he knows how to play from lead sheets. He was very enthusiastic about working with me and the lessons have been very good so far.

Cminor, I totally understand. I cannot wear my contacts when I am playing and I have to have very good lighting to see right. I might talk to my eye doctor about a pair of piano glasses when I go this year. LOL

Mel, I never go anywhere without it.

Rich

Welcome DragonPianoPlayer (DPP?) the eyeglass thing gets to be a REAL PAIN as you get older...50 over here

and we want to HEAR some of those X'mas songs...