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Now I have to single out John and Walt in the "Who inspired you this year?" thread. As another "piano virgin" with only 7 months under my belt, actually hearing your yearly improvement makes climbing this mountain a little less intimidating. Thanks to both for sharing your progress.

While I'm at it I'd also like to thank everyone who posts their pieces in the recitals, piano bar or other threads. It is just so helpful to those of us without much musical background to hear these and then follow the discussions.

I've begun recording pieces on my DP but have not yet figured out how to get them out of the piano, into the computer and uploaded to something like boxnet. But thats a different mountain, and a different thread.

Have a nice Holiday everyone.

Jim

Concerning languages, I think the most difficult thing is to lose the accent. Other than that I think the limit is the amount of study you are willing to put on it.

Maybe with piano is something simular: we never lose our "accent" (hand structure, some mind patterns...) but we can develop our vocabulary (technic) and transmit the same message(pieces played).

thanks to the many who have posted on this thread. this bit from john frank particularly strikes a chord with me:


The hardest part of being an adult student is the patience and determination to keep working at it consistently enough and long enough until your skills and technique catch up with and allow you to play the music exactly as you hear it in your mind and want it to sound coming off your fingers - this can be very frustrating for quite some time.


have no idea if my fingers will catch up with my well-developed ear (my greatest advantage i am told), but i haven't quit yet...

if i actually get somewhere near "there", i'll post a song or two.