Piano World Home Page Forums Our Most Popular Forums Adult Beginners Forum Best use of my time?

Hello everyone
ok, i started learning to play the piano 3 months ago at the ripe age of 40.At the moment i'm working through an adults beginner book with my teacher and i'm doing simple songs,hands together, that last only 30/40 seconds.due to not having a job now, i have 3 hours a day to practise.In your opinion, what would be the optimum use of the time in order to progress?


thanks.

G

I would recommend that you start to improvise right now. By improvise I mean sit down at the piano and just dig in with both hands and play completely by ear, with no concern for theory or right or wrong notes or anything else. This is how you train your ear and really learn about the nature of the piano and what you can do on it. Initially, what you produce might seem to sound like total junk, just mindless noise, but that is the nature of improvisation. And everything you play will be original, your own creation; this is so much different than what you are doing in your piano lessons. After you improvise like this everything else you do on the piano will start to have real meaning for you.

Technical works for beginners, perhaps even basic scales and arpeggios, separate hands, 1 octave in C, D F, G majors and A, E, G, D minors for a start.

We've talked about this quite a bit here:

http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1593209/1.html

Good luck! And welcome to PW!

II

Three hours is a long time. Be careful not to burn yourself out too quickly.