Season's Greetings to everyone!!!

I really appreciate this forum and the advice and comments given. It has been a great resource for me and I thank you for that.

Ever since the movie The Pianist I wanted to learn Chopin's Nocturne in C Shar Minor. It sounded simple enough but my ignorance soon was verified when I attempted it

After playing by ear mainly on keyboards for years which I used mostly to compose I realized I cannot progress without a real piano and last year came my miracle from God . I bought a Boston Upright UP-126 E and began to progress.

The Piano came with 3 free lessons and I took an additional 2 lessons. Then I was on my own. From there I've been attempting to learn Chopin's Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor along with the other Mendelssohn songs from my youtube channel that I uploaded. I'm also working on Chopin's Grande Polonaise Brillante but since I'm at Grade 0 theoretically and learning on my own I think it will be quite a while before you see me uploading that one

Please be kind with your criticisms. I appreciate tips and critiques but please keep in mind that over the last 40 or so years I've had about a total of 8-10 piano lessons and I am lacking some serious fundamental teachings.

I hope you enjoy this video and I will be updating these videos from time to time. I made my share of mistakes in this video and the other videos but was pleased enough to upload it.

Here is the link to a video of my playing Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp Minor Recorded on my Iphone 4S.

It seems that the phone does some kind of volume compressing or balancing because it sounds like almost everything is played near the same volume. It wasn't played like that! You really have to have a big difference in volume change to hear the difference with this phone while recording.

http://youtu.be/y2rkn7SeV7c

Kindest Regards

Ray Johnson

Well done!

Thank You:)