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I spent a little time teaching his daughter "Mary had a Little Lamb", which she picked up remarkably quickly, ......
Here's where we differ: I start them on "Night and Day". ;-)
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Yes, I have tried but was unsuccessful. an adult I know stated 'he always wanted to learn' I found a patient beginning adult teacher for him, offered to GIVE him a good upright piano if he would pay the one hundred dollar moving fee and agree to commit to ongoing tuning. Alas, this was not enough. He decided he couldn't afford the one hundred dollars.
Really, when an adult wants something, they generally find a way to do it, even though it takes time. I was just hoping to reduce the time issue, but found out the real issue was lack of TRUE motivation.Very disheartening.
Children often must abide by parental restrictions so this is entirely different.
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It's pointless, whoever knows how much time, effort, frustration, and money is required to learn any instrument and to make music should know that is not an external force driving toward music but an internal fire. The best you can do, is show the way to somebody that already has the fire.
People want instant gratification and forgiveness for their slack of application.
You can ask forgiveness for your lack of application and go to heaven, but you can't play a concert.
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I haven't had the pleasure of doing that. Some people just aren't interested, but if they show interest, I would suggest it.
My Aunt talked me into it...well she didn't have to push too hard. I think if the interest is already there, a gentle nudge is all that is really needed. Of course the person will have to really want to take the time and study. Most people say "I don't have the time."
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I've tried to get one of my friends who already plays the piano to improve. He's been playing for five years now and he can't even play a simple scale. It's like he's adamantly committed to not reaching even an unacceptably low level of proficiency with his playing. I've tried to talk him into taking lessons, or even teaching him myself, but he's constantly coming up with excuses. This wouldn't bother me so much, but he's always talking about how he wants to play advanced-level pieces.
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If, like me, one is a very late starter, yet gets severely bitten by the bug, it can become too easy to become a pianevangelist. So I avoid that, though if people ask me about my experience as a beginner who hadn't touched a piano before the age of 60, I truthfully tell them it's hard, but the experience of playing piano is completely different from anything I'd imagined it would be like. The exhilaration of finding, at last, that I really could make my hands do different things in synchrony is still one of the high points of my piano experience so far.
There are so many benefits to being able to play piano that it's hard to know where to begin, and they extend beyond the immediacy of music. I am not alone, for example, in finding that there's a noticeable improvement in mental and memory faculties, and in realising, in a very powerful way, the value of perseverance, which extends to other things in life.
I reign these things in when talking about piano, for no one wants, however inadvertently, to become The Piano Bore. But if asked, then I'll happily talk about what it's been like, that it's not been easy, but the lesson of determination is addictive. And it's just the best darned thing I've ever undertaken.
The determination to play, however, has to be internal.
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If, like me, one is a very late starter, yet gets severely bitten by the bug, it can become too easy to become a pianevangelist. So I avoid that, though if people ask me about my experience as a beginner who hadn't touched a piano before the age of 60, I truthfully tell them it's hard, but the experience of playing piano is completely different from anything I'd imagined it would be like. The exhilaration of finding, at last, that I really could make my hands do different things in synchrony is still one of the high points of my piano experience so far.
There are so many benefits to being able to play piano that it's hard to know where to begin, and they extend beyond the immediacy of music. I am not alone, for example, in finding that there's a noticeable improvement in mental and memory faculties, and in realising, in a very powerful way, the value of perseverance, which extends to other things in life.
I reign these things in when talking about piano, for no one wants, however inadvertently, to become The Piano Bore. But if asked, then I'll happily talk about what it's been like, that it's not been easy, but the lesson of determination is addictive. And it's just the best darned thing I've ever undertaken.
The determination to play, however, has to be internal. This says it so well. I think people can see my eyes light up when there's a piano (or piano talk) anywhere close by. So I don't hide my enthusiasm, but it's pretty easy for me to watch *them* and see which way the wind blows.
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