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Hi All,

i've finally done it and got myself a piano teacher but i've been playing for about 20 years or so. I was just wondering what was your first piece that you learnt. The reason i ask is my brother wants me to teach him a little and was wondering what to teach him first.

my first piece was schumann the little study and mozart 40.

the first thing i learnt was "Do your ears hang low" with chords in all ;]

My first piece was I've Loved These Days by Billy Joel - it took me over a month to learn it but was a fun experience.

my first "piece": CDE EDC (RH), lower octave DED CBC (LH). at 6 years old -

"Gymnopedie No.1", Erik Satie.

Mine was a very simplified arrangement of Ode to Joy from the Alfred Adult book 1. I remember being very excited that I could play it! I was like "Woohoo I am playing real music!"

Moonlight sonata, first movement. It took me six months, but I never got bored with it.

Jesus Loves Me...back in 1963...still have most of my lesson books. (read between the lines...a pack rat)

If you discount all the three or four measure stuff in the method books, mine was 'The Mournful Worm' by Elizabeth Greenleaf. I made up a little story that went with the music to help me put some expression into it!

Fur Elise (1st page), even before i started any instruction book!

first part of Jesu Joy of Man's desiring

'The Heart Asks Pleasure First' by Michael Nyman, and Chopin's Nocturne in C#min.

Not exactly suitable for beginners, but those were the pieces which inspired me to start in the first place

Ok If I really consider my first piece as a child using one of those air organs....It would be silent night.

But if you talk about 3 yrs ago with my clavinova, which I consider to be the actual time I began to take seriously to learning piano....it would be Fur Elise.

Peter

Back in the 1950s, my first piece of sheet music was the "Fairy Queen Waltz".

And, Monster M & H, I still have most of my books, too. Probably a good thing we don't live together-we'd be buried in stuff!

Self-taught myself to figure out some tunes when I was a kid, like Imagine or Let It Be.

But since I started playing Classical, that was Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, 1st Movement.

Bach's minuet in G major (the one with the arpeggios).

After that was Sara's Band from Fresh Aire.

Who can remember that far back?

Kathleen

If I remember correctly, mine was `Cockles & Mussels`. I can`t remember it anymore :-(

I don't remember the name of it, but most people that heard it called it "Noise"

Doggerel set to music:
"Here we go
Up a row
To a birth
day party."

I was five.