LOL.

I like Monika's idea. It might be a good place to start for now and then we can decide if we want to add another song or follow along with the book (or both)....

I was feeling a little overwhelmed by following along with a book and doing two songs in addition to my lessons and the song my teacher has me do. But, I do want to push myself a little more and I think this would be a good way to do it. I definitely have my "down" days and the support and encouragement form people working on the same things would be wonderful.

BTW... I probably won't be able to start until next week (Monday) b/c I hurt my hand

This is a good idea, but maybe we should make several groups according to the current level of each student. For some, a specific piece may well be too hard at this very moment, whilst for others the same piece could be quite easy. And then again, who says we all want to study the same piece?

Well, another approach might be that we ask each other our dumb questions?? Like, "Does anything know what that squiggly thing with a couple of dots mean, in a piece that has that strange word 'coda' in it?" And if nobody knows, we post the question on the piano teachers forum?

Otherwise, I'd feel comfortable just telling you what I'm struggling with, or what I would like to do but don't know how to get from "here to there," etc. If someone wants to post a piece and invite others to play, I could try that and report back whether I could do that--and others could help us all analyze where we are musically. Or maybe we just need to ask something here before we take it to our teachers (assuming we have them). Do we need to be anything in particular, other than a support group?

We could just start a thread for each piece and those who are interested can participate...it would work but i'd like to see amore personal group forming so we can bounce ideas of each other and count on eachothers moral support.
If we keep the pieces in the public domain we can all be learning from the same sheet....
I think now has come the time to suggest some works to get the ball rolling ........how about one classical and one modern ?
i'll start hunting
Peter

Hi Peter, I'm 54 and just started about 4 years ago. I won't go through all of the details because I have mentioned them before in this forum. The point I am trying to make is that this forum for me has been a great way to learn quite a few things. I don't always post, but look around to see what new ways of playing/practicing and use some of those suggestions.

I keep my dreams because if I knew several years ago that I would be playing piano, I wouldn't believe it! I am proud at what I have accomplished and you hopefully will be/are as well.

To echo, Angelojf, don't give up and enjoy what you have accomplished in the amount of time you have done this!

Take care