Studied Piano for 10 years... stopped the last 3 and miss Piano

[lizardfolk]

Hey guys, I'm new to the forum and I'd just like some advice/opinion on my playing.  Piano was once a source of annoyance for me as a kid and I couldn't wait to get to college so I could just fool around and do whatever I want.  So I did exactly that.  Only I'm in the twilight years of my college education and I now miss it.

I regret not practicing and keeping up my skills but I'm atleast happy to find out that I can still make sound come out of the piano lol.

Anyway I'm posting this because I recently started recording myself a bit and would like some feedback on my piano playing.  I studied classical music (and love it at this point in my life) so I'm well rounded in my knowledge of the piano repertoire.

Here's me rediscovering some old Dennis Alexander pieces:

Good?  Bad?  Average?  What could I do to improve.  Any constructive comments would be appreciated, thanks.

Lizard

[derschoenebahnhof]

Good. In my opinion your playing is very relaxed, even and you have a good touch.

Go for it! 

I stopped playing piano for something like 14 years... I am glad I restarted. Especially now that you can get tons of sheet music online and listen to many performances on youtube (which either make you excited about learning a new piece or make you feel bad because they play so much better than you )

CG

Hey guys, I'm new to the forum and I'd just like some advice/opinion on my playing.  Piano was once a source of annoyance for me as a kid and I couldn't wait to get to college so I could just fool around and do whatever I want.  So I did exactly that.  Only I'm in the twilight years of my college education and I now miss it.

I regret not practicing and keeping up my skills but I'm atleast happy to find out that I can still make sound come out of the piano lol.

Anyway I'm posting this because I recently started recording myself a bit and would like some feedback on my piano playing.  I studied classical music (and love it at this point in my life) so I'm well rounded in my knowledge of the piano repertoire.

Here's me rediscovering some old Dennis Alexander pieces:

Good?  Bad?  Average?  What could I do to improve.  Any constructive comments would be appreciated, thanks.

Lizard

[kellyc]

Hi: Enjoyed your playing, Now to the point. Do some Bach. That couldn't be clearer. Seeing what you played here, Bach is it.  Nothing will guarantee equal development of your hands, the ability to develop a finely  controlled touch and direct your listeners to a singing melody, wherever it might occur on the piano.

kelly

[lizardfolk]

Thanks for the advice guys.  I guess I have some bach to sift through =)  I assume well-tempered clavier?  I know a few there are polyphony and have more than 2 melodic lines occurring.

Also I recently acquired a Canon and Gigue in D (yes I got the Gigue as well because i hate it when people dont play the full piece).  I guess that's a good place to start?  I have the virtual sheet music version (https://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/score/CanonPiano.html) which is fortunately not the baby 2 minute version but the fill 7 minutes of the entire piece and it seems to be a proper transcription of it

[swansonjw]

If you want some easier Bach, try the Note of Anna Magdalena Bach or the two- and three-part inventions.  The two-part invention in a minor is a fab piece, you'll love it, and the others will get you going before attempting the Well-Tempered.