Hello everyone, my first post

[mrwillsi3]

Hey everyone,

I'm Wills from gilbert,az. This is my first post on here. I'm 24 and have been messing around with the piano since i was a little kid, but 2 years ago I bought myself a keyboard (yahama YPG 635) and have been teaching myself ever since.

I don't have money for a private teach/lessons but I am confident in being able to teach myself, and a little help along the way from a forum like this sure would be nice .

I would say I'm in the beginning stages of being an intermediate lol. I have a decent understanding of music theory, my sight reading skills are sub-par i must admit...any advice on how to improve them would be appreciated. My technique is improving. I have been practicing Czerny's piano techniques....and my approach to that is to learn 1 exercise...then learn it in EVERY key, and then move onto the next.

I've learned all of my major scales (still working on G-flat but all the others I have down fairly well).

 My heart is music, it isn't just a hobby for me and it's what I hope to do for a living, be it playing/writing/engineering etc...if it involves music, I'm happy.

I suppose the main thing I'd like help on, is direction. Maybe some advice on what to practice and for how long...I don't mind putting in the hours needed, I'd just like to put them in with the confidence of at least believing that they are not being wasted or not being used to their greatest potential.

Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated, and if i could meet a fellow piano player who is also in Arizona, that would be too cool

Thanks everyone, I'm sure you will be hearing much more from me in the near future
   

[lostinidlewonder]

...I have been practicing Czerny's piano techniques....and my approach to that is to learn 1 exercise...then learn it in EVERY key, and then move onto the next.

Don't waste your time learning one exercise in every key. This is a good lesson in transposition and understanding how to play in different positions but with the same overall feeling, however it is more of an advanced issue to learn which might be difficult to fully appreciate early on. Ideally no matter what key you play in, your hands should generally play the same procedure with alterations based on the shape the key signature demands, to me this seems a little too difficult to appreciate early on but it can't harm you but I feel it will slow you down where you should be focusing on learning as many different procedures at the piano as possible.

I suppose the main thing I'd like help on, is direction. Maybe some advice on what to practice and for how long...I don't mind putting in the hours needed, I'd just like to put them in with the confidence of at least believing that they are not being wasted or not being used to their greatest potential.

What piano music have you listened to and what music inspires you and you can imagine one day playing yourself? The more you piece together pieces you would like to play the more clear it becomes the path that you have to take. In my opinion Bach, Beethoven, Chopin are great to further develop your base your learning from.