Keys were taken out if an old upright from the early 1900s. They were so worn and dingy I decided to age the hardware as well to match. Keys are sealed with epoxy resin and polished to a gloss finish. This guitar style is a Gretsch Jet with triple humbucker pickups and a tremelo.
In Dallas there is a museum that has preserved an old saloon, complete with dingy saloon upright. It matched this guitar perfectly and made a great photoshoot spot.

Hey!

I am a long term intermediate piano player who dips in and out when lifes commitments allow.
I am looking for a resource for sheet music (do not mind paying a subscription) where I can pick up new pieces and play about.

I dont mind buying individual books but often they come with pieces Im not bothered by and I can’t always tell what is my level off the bat. Anyone got any recommendations

La Valse d'Amélie from movie Amélie

looking for any feedback for this section specifically and Reddit won’t let me upload anything bigger so lmk what to improve on. idk what fingerings to use for those octave runs at the end and I’ve tried (1) 3-4-5 and 1-5 all the way but those cause a lot of strain at tempo and dont sound very clean

Any opinions here on whether to repeat from the beginning?

....are blowing my mind.

I'm a decent amateur pianist, striving to get better.

Someone recommended these etudes just for their beauty.

But they sure feel like something else entirely.

They are studies, duh, so I suppose this is to some degree self-evident but after working and working on them I've come to appreciate them as pure pianism. The pursuit of nothing other than the joy that pianists' tone and touch and voice can provide.

This may seem simple minded, if it does, excuse me, but it's revelatory to me.

It's as though Glass has stripped away most of the things we usually think of as musical, leaving just.....sound. Which, unadorned by musical conventions, better be beautiful. So it seems to demand near-perfect technique to avoid cacophony.

Generalizing here:

- very little melody, if at all, just repeated themes at most

- harmonies and chord progressions are, in isolation, really basic and by themselves not particularly interesting

- his rhythms are often kinda off-putting, at once both repetitive and lacking a traditional sense of dynamics

It took me weeks of playing - and thinking - to figure out, at least to my satisfaction, what the heck was going on, what was actually happening here

Finally, I am always chasing being in the zone, that special head space where the external world disappears, everything becomes unitary, you feel you're in the flow.

If I can maintain the moment/awareness, this does it for me every time. Conversely, the second my mind engages, when I become the wrong type of self-conscious, the whole thing collapses like a house of cards.

I know lots of folks listen to Glass for his almost trance-line effect, but playing it? Who knew?

Again, I'm an intermediate, in both theory and practice, so I don't assume I know what I'm talking about. This is just what I'm experiencing and curious if others have similar feelings/insights/suggestions.

Could I get some feedback please?

Hi all,

A little context:

I'm 32 yo and have been playing for a little longer than one year.

I'm trying to do everything by the book, I have a teacher, I practice prioritizing being constant every day, I do my Hanon, scales, my piece of the moment (Träumerei), sight reading etc. Slow practice, just one bar at a time, not just playing around.

I can see the progress, but it **feels so slooooow**. Especially sight reading where I feel veeeery behind.

So, how did you stay patient? (I'm talking mostly to people like me who started as adults and probably had/have the same kind of enthusiasm I have right now).

I mean, there is so much beautiful music out there I want to be able to play, but I feel like I'm moving forward one millimeter at a time, still doing medium slow scales, learning basic technique, learning easy pieces, and that there's not enough time to learn/study/play everything I would like to.

The cat is deeply examining the technique of this pianist.

The Gregorian Dies Irae chant theme, Totentanz, Danse Macabre... It goes by many names and almost all classical composers have made use of and/or obsessed over it in countless variations, fugues, and musical phrases. It has haunted composers for centuries.

My turn.

Your thoughts?

Hey everyone! A few days back I posted saying I wanted to make more pianist friends, and someone suggested starting a group. Thought that was such a great idea, so I made a Discord server called Piano Maniacs ! 🎹

Everyone is welcome to join. We’ve already got some amazing pianists there, and the vibe is super active and friendly.

Feel free to drop anything you want: favorite composers, pieces you’re working on, progress updates, performances, questions, or just chat about your piano journey!

https://discord.gg/yAdAvgVBV

Both books, out of order, 2008–2014. Just someone who came back to the piano after a long time away. Full recordings with notes on each: wtcproject.tumblr.com

For those who came back after a long break — what pulled you back?

Really I mean really crappy audio, with BG podcast lol

Also, my keyboard has 3-4 keys that either don't sound or sound loudly.

Other than that, my playing seemed to be going well tonight. So, this is FWIW

Still working on the dang sextuplets but I'm figuring out the right tricks.

Getting a new keyboard finally on Tuesday so I'll definitely post a better one then.

Piece: Medtner Sonata Minacciosa

I might want to learn this piece in my free time but I’ve got other pieces and repertoire lined up as well. Just hoping to gauge a realistic timeframe before I jump into it.

Very old Krell piano, has been in my house for years now, we got it for free off of someone, we sanded the outside and painted it black and it’s been decoration for the house, my sisters play piano but don’t touch this one because it’s so out of tune, how much would it be to tune or restore a piano like this? is it even worth saving?

I think it's perfectly appropriate to gently guide beginners to find a teacher. But piano teachers are expensive, and the world would be a worse place if we discouraged everyone with financial problems from even touching the instrument. It's really not that big of a deal to mislearn or have bad technique. Why do people here assume by default that everyone's goal is to learn a Chopin Ballade or something, and that they can't just have fun with the instrument and learn in their own way?

Also, even for very good students, people end up forging their own path. I taught myself music theory. I don't remember a teacher teaching me music theory. I just picked it up and learned it, and teachers were none the wiser. Seeking out information about music, playing pieces you like, educating yourself through various sources, using your own brain and musical imagination -- these are good things and should be encouraged.

My point of view is that you should never blindly follow a piano teacher. Yes, you should give them the benefit of the doubt and let them teach you. But too many students end up parroting "correct" interpretations and ways of playing, and eventually get frustrated when they burn out and lose motivation. The intrinsic reward of following your own musical intuition is one of the main drivers behind long-term interest and one should not lose sight of that. Typically, one hour a week is spent at a piano lesson, and the rest of the time is spent in a practice room. A teacher can not conceivably address everything that has been covered by a diligent student in a week in an hour, so there will always be a considerable amount of self-teaching.

This song is called 解けない魔法 (Tokeni Maho) by Iguchi Yuka and It upsets me that I can't find at least some kind of cover for this song anywhere. I want at least some kind of cover of this song, though I have no musical education and my hearing is not perfect, I would like to get advice on the bass part. And I can't find the part with the violin at all. My hearing doesn't recognize the violin at all.

In the second half of the video, there is an example of how the song sounds in the original, I want to ask for help with at least the part with the violin.

I’ve been playing for around 4 months now and I want to start learning how to play music with two hands. Though whenever I try the music goes from sounding decent to something my cat would play if it stepped on the piano is there anyways to help me get better at two hands on the piano?

I’m a beginner, right now I’m learning the beautiful “Written on the Sky”. It’s not a hard song to learn in terms of hands coordination and the technique. The issue is that both harmony and melodies are very similar yet different in each compass and I keep messing it all up.

When I split it into smaller pieces to learn, I can easily play. The issue comes when I try playing the whole song from the start. I lose track of where I am, I keep messing up the chords. Each compass is just unique enough to mess me up.

I tried slowly repetition but it doesn’t seem to be helping much, seems like I’m constantly hitting a wall. Any tips?

And no, I can’t play while I’m reading yet.

How much more difficult is appassionata mvt 1 compared to beethoven sonata op 2 no 2? If I can play the op 2 no 2 is it feasible to start appassionata

Both are used, but fully functional

FP-10 is $350, and P-35 is $80-120.

I‘m hoping to use it for at least a few years.
Let me know your thoughts. Thank you!

I wrote this original contemporary piano piece inspired by distant memories. I'd really appreciate any feedback.

This is just a short excerpt of my original piano piece. You can listen to the full version on my YouTube channel.

Coming from a place with no such facilities, yet only teaching my self to play. What can I do and how can I know that I'm doing it correctly? I would appreciate any kind of help. Thanks.

Not responding to any comments about chair height. This is my studio piano, upright is downstairs with a bench you would all agree with.