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Offline devron

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Looking for some answers
on: October 12, 2014, 12:49:25 PM
I am 23 years old and I just began teaching piano. I have maybe 40 students but they are all very young and mostly beginners no intermediate students yet.  In my playing I know my sight-reading is a serious struggle but my technical abilities are far beyond my reading, the problem is I had instruction.   

I have taken piano lessons my entire life, and this is the first time I have ever enjoy playing so much. I don't know if it is because the lack of instruction I feel like I have more freedom to improvise which I had never focused on before.  When I was a child what caught my eye for piano was the blend of the sounds of jazz with classical. I began doing it with the chopin nocturnes to help learn harmony of the piece, found some cool chords as well.

I went from a purely improvised teacher, to one that was so focused on technique and how to play, along the switch of instructors I ran across some hardship. Recently I just had a epiphany, piano is my life and it will be my life, I have never had tears of happiness before.  I have never looked at it as a way to make money just some where to release all of my stress, now that stress is turning into beautiful colors and a understanding of music I have never had before.

It is amazing, it was all in one week I suddenly became excellent at reading people my ear has become so in tune when I used to be completely tone deaf.  I can feel what's happening around me just in sound. I struggle very much in Aural theory, I just could never hear the cords change. Now when I play I can put words to the melody, I just kinda think of a phrase and fit the sound to it. I don't know what's happening but I was wondering if anyone might have an idea what can happen that abruptly musically?

I have been taking the advice from the wealth of information on this site juggling is giving my left hard much better wrist coordination, also playing in a key before the piece has giving me the ability to improvise which I have never been able to do and like the sounds anyway.  Now all I want to hear is jazz, blues, and classical, this website Bernard especially your thought process changed my life, taking all of the knowledge I have acquired and combining it with math and anatomy makes the piano the greatest mystery on earth, thank you.