Notes=Boring

[miaklang]

I have been suffering the same problem all my piano life ( I started very late 18 years old, have now been playing for eight years) my problem is that whenever I learn a piano song with help from notes I seem to loose interest for the song, it's like the song looses it's artie beauty and turn into a logical mathematical piece... My problem now is that I don't have any friend or anyone that could teach me how to play the songs like back in the old days one thing that does work is to check out youtube videos and learn from what I see, but this kind of only work if the quality is very good and the songs are pretty slow. Anyway my question is if anyone know of a good piano site where I can learn this way ( i.e. by looking ) Thank you
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[rmbarbosa]

I think your problem isnt a matter of see or dont see youtube performings. It seems as you feel tired after play a lot of times the same composition. With the repetitions, the composition becomes repetitious because it loses novelty and risks to become fastidious. I believe it`s a risk for all us. As human beings, we aspire after the infinite, we are never satisfied with what we have already, isnt true? So, with a musical piece, when you have it "in your fingers", it turns to you a sequence of notes and sounds, as if it losed its beauty...
Perhaps you may try "mental playing", earing in your mind the piece you are learning, looking for the intrinsic beauty of each musical phrase, singing it inclusively (remember Glenn Gould...). Then you may return to the keyboard and try to reproduce exactly what you ear in your mind.
It`s very important to record your playing.
As all in our life, music is also 90% of perspiration and only 10% of inspiration, you know?
Best wishes
rui

[i_am_joey_jo]

I don't know how appropriate is it for me to put this in here but maybe https://www.onlinepianist.com/ will help you.  THey show you the notes to play for many different songs.

No I'm not part of the site trying to grab free advertising.

[Bob]

I've written out that "essence" of what I like about the piece when I first hear it or first start working on it.  Whatever and however you practice is what will get engrained into the piece.  After you've got the notes down (and dynamics, and articulation, etc.  don't forget all that), you could go back and work on the emotion of the piece.  Even drop the piece for awhile and forget it so you can forget the technical things about the piece a bit.