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Hey everyone! I'm Mike, and I joined this site after getting lots of useful information on buying my first digital piano (Roland RP 201) which has worked out great. I played piano when I was really little for about a year and then really started playing about 2 years ago. Im also using this forum to get help and recommendations for a free piano site that I am creating (www.easyonears.weebly.com) I'll be getting a better site address soon I hope. The hope for my site is to have people who like similar piano styles (contemporary and pop) share songs, artists, and tutorials ect, and have it all in one place. So hopefully I can find discover some great artists and songs that I didnt know about and help other people do so as well. Look forward to any help to come and, hopefully, to create a site a few of you might enjoy.

Happy playing and blogging!

Mike

Dear forummembers, I am a new kid on the block, just very curious for anything to do with classical piano music and playing, hope to find many encouraging comments about pieces and techniques, composers and styles, hope to contribute in my own
humble way, let's see!

welcome, let's see and give it your best shot, good luck and let's meet here!

Are you any sort of an Alkan-fan?

Hi guys... i hope i can learn a lot about pianos and technique in this forum..

Hi I played everyday from the ages of 8-18 (have finished my grades). Then uni took over and I literally stopped playing for 3 years. Now that I've finished, I'm looking to get my technique up to scratch. Happy playing everyone!

Hello and yes, I am a "newbie". Live in St. Pete, Florida, play "lounge" style pop piano, teeny bit of jazz, some boogie and lots of standards....favorite Polka Dots and Moobeams in F, only one flat, whew.
Selling my Yamaha T118 upright, only a year old and in pristine condition, but need a smaller instrument, like a studio upright for instance....nooo not a spinet, to me that is like playing wire strings stretched over a metal wash tub.
I have posed a question and really would like some feed back. Okay? Her goes. It's a simple question....what do you like about owning a piano? Cause it looks nice in your house....attractive piece of furniture....playing it relaxes you.....when you play, the ladies or gentlement are attracted to you depending on your gender, of course.....you have been forced to practice by mom or your piano teacher....what are you reasons or reason. Please post. Thanks a lot.

Hello everyone.

I don't have any formal education on the field of music or playing the piano. I compose on my own and have a habit of listening extensively to Alkan, Beethoven and Meyerbeer's operas and finding out about Liszt's more obscure pieces.

I've never had the honour of playing with a concert grand piano, many of you people are more lucky than you know. I have an electric piano which I'm keen to get rid of sooner or later after having to endure its crappiness for my whole piano-playing life, but I have to persevere with it for now. I'm not too big of a fan about my technique, it's really bad, but I like my "musicanship", if that's any proper to say.

Good to meet you people

Hi - I posted an introduction on the non-classical forum as well, because that's the style I'm now trying to teach myself. In a nutshell, I've been playing since I was 10, and I'm now 51. I was classically trained, through all the grades and also to diploma level, but due to early teaching, my ability to memorise and improvise was stifled. So I am now starting afresh, with a beginner's mind, and attempting to play entirely without music...to rekindle my natural ability to play by ear. Reading notation has its place, but I have now come to believe that music really only comes to life when it is being played from the heart, rather than by rote. I'm finding this journey deeply frustrating, but I'm determined to wake my brain up and become an instinctive musician again. I'm looking forward to chatting to you all.

Carol

I have already posted a few tid-bits on the forum, but figured I just give a formal introduction. I have been playing piano for about 10 years now, and playing music for my whole life. My family said I was humming "Amazing Grace" by 9 months of age, which leads me to believe I am just meant to be a musician. I am highly trained in most woodwinds, and ever higher trained in brass instruments. I marched with Blue Knight Drum and Bugle Corps out of Denver, CO for a few years. I have performed in hundreds of venues around the world, with my largest crowd being a sold out Mile High Stadium. After having every opportunity to make music my life I gave it up for two reasons. One, I didn't like all the back stage drama that fills the music world, and two, I joined the Marine Corps.

I picked up piano about 6 years after I started my formal training in music. It was one of my last instruments I thought would be needed to be able to play to consider myself a true musician, and plus it seemed an easy way to pick up girls. lmao I had a great piano teacher all through high school. Who really helped me excel on the piano.

I am fluent in pretty much every genre, but not saying I'm fluent in every genre of music on the piano. Jazz just seems easier and funner on brass instruments. If I had to give myself a grade of ability on piano, 1 being a beginner and 10 being a concert pianist, I would probably put myself at a 5.865. Mostly because I wasn't able to keep up my piano during my time in the Marines.

As far as non music related intros go, I'm 26, married with 3 boys(ages 4,5,6). I live in southern Louisiana.

Welcome to PW! By the way, I see in your signature that you're doing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. Are you playing this on an organ, or is it a piano transcription? If it's a transcription, who transcribed it?

it is the transcription for piano and done by Vincent A. Jockin.

hello, this is my first post and am kinda shy. I started playing pinao when I was 3, then stopped because I was too lazy to practise, and now i regret. Anyway i have since stopped playing.

Recently i came across youtube videos of Samson Francois and am now obsessed, with the pianist and the music. Now i've decided to take up piano again, along with my 2 babies when they're a little older. Meanwhile I need to buy a piano, which is a big problem as I live in Hong Kong in a tiny apartment, with a tiny budget, but am adamant on getting a grand, albeit a tiny grand. I don't know much about pianos or brands, so I thought I'd start here, in these forums.
Hope to chat with you all soon...

Hi, an overdue introduction.

I’ve posted a few things on some forums already, lots of good advice here and have decided to stay.

I had three years of piano lessons when I was 7 and hated it. All of my original piano books are now lost in the midst of time (which shows you how interested I was) except for my very first John Thompson, how it survived I don't know. My then teacher scared the heck out of me, she looked like Beethoven, smelt and coughed a lot, and they were her good points. I still remember the day I went to my last piano lesson and my teacher said to me "Your mum tells me you want to play trombone?" (it was trumpet actually). I said yeah, that’s right, then I think I just left and never saw her again. Now fast forward for 30 years on trumpet, I played for church and in orchestras. But I still kept on dabbling with the piano (so there must have been some influence there , thank you Mrs B) and decided to study formally again with a teacher about 2 years before I retired on trumpet and have now studied piano for 5 years and never looked back and now I love it.

Best,

Anthony.

howdy everyone!
im a freshman at hartt school of music, classical piano performance, i discovered this site recently and its existence makes me incredibly happy! :p

erm..yeah...not too great with this introduction stuff...hi guys? :p

Hi,

My name is Emma and, actually, I'm not really a pianist, but a violinist. I came across this forum a couple of months ago via quite an interesting post about chopin's 1st ballade. It has always interested me how certain pieces of music manage to touch and affect many people and I was trying to find out why...?
I have been enjoying myself playing bits and pieces of the ballade (i learnt piano when I was younger) but am trying to work out what makes that piece such an evocative and affecting one...

Anyway, HELLO!

E x

Hello Everyone,
I have been lurking for a while around here and just joined today. I found the sight while searching for some piano information. I am a classically trained pianist with an undergraduate degree in music - I studied a piano pedagogy emphasis complete with student teaching, and also have a graduate degree in education. I am both a former piano and elementary classroom teacher. I am taking time off to be a full-time mom right now... although I do teach music/piano to my own children.

It was my grandmother that first introduced me to the piano. She had a big chickering grand piano in her living room. I gravitated toward it from an early age. It has been in her family since new - 1905. As an adult, I inherited it and had it completely redone, inside and out, top to bottom, by someone that I consider to be a Chickering specialist. It is such a joy to play and I have such fond memories of playing on it growing up. I love that my children are learning to play on it, too.

Anyway my formal lessons didn't begin until I was 9 years old. I progressed rapidly and participated in all of the Guild and Federation Auditions. It seemed only natural that I would pursue a music degree in college.

I love playing and teaching piano... My biggest challenge is finding time to practice.

Hey I'm new here and I found this site out of searching for some piano information and a few friends suggested I join the forum. I'm getting back into piano after almost 9 yrs now and also minoring in music within my last few semesters of an undergrad in college before i go for the Masters and then the PhD. I've been lurking around at the different forums and found some encouragement in a lot of the posts. I was hesitant at first to join because I used to go through college doing everything myself and leaarned the hard way that success is based on relationships...

With that being said I realized I don't know everything, lol, and I really want to learn and get advice as I continue into the piano, my career in music and health and meet amazing people that I can learn from! I've posted on the adult beginners forum first in case you wanna know a better introduction. Even though my playing isn't necessarily beginner, I'm beginning a whole new life and that means re-learning old lessons and spiring new ones!

Hello i am new to the forum and have been playing piano for a few years now. I have a variety of books ranging frim artists like keane to Alicia Keys. I also have a classical book with some very good songs in it.

I am currently learning Habenara from Carmen and I am perfecting an Alicia keys song called Empire state of mind. I am still learning and probably not as skilled as some people here but i am starting grades soon and hope to reach Grade 8 someday and be able to play some classic piano masterpieces.