Kiss the rain as first song to learn - stupid move?

[micker]

So i just got my piano, and im considering to learn Kiss the Rain - Yiruma as the first song ever, on my piano, is this doable within a month? and/or would it be a really stupid move? i really dont know where to start, but i really like this song.

[ichky]

Not stupid at all.

The best pieces to start learning is always the ones you want to learn.
I've only ever learnt how to play the songs I love, and skip the boring classical pieces that I don't like.

I'll give you a real life example of my cousin. An absolute beginner who only picked up the piano to learn one song, yes just one. In order to impress his girl friend, and eventually married her and played that one song at his wedding. He skipped through all basic piano theory and doesn't even know how to play chords. But he has learnt how to play a piece of song that he only wanted to learn.

If he can do it, you can too.

Best of Luck!

Ichky

P.S: Check out my videos on www.youtube.com/Ichky

[mikeowski]

I don't see the problem in starting off with something you want to play. I started that way too, from Billy Joel (the sole reason I started playing!) and the Beatles to Yann Tiersen and a bit later to Mozart, Bach(still my favorite composer) and I am recently playing Rachmaninoff and Bartók, and became interested in Prokofiev, Schoenberg...
My point is, if you keep playing, you will probably eventually change your interests and there's no one who will force you to keep playing yiruma for the rest of your life because you started with one of his pieces.
With huge projects (like music and piano playing) it's best to just start instead of wasting time looking for a "perfect" start.

[micker]

Thanks for the replies, i was just wondering if ksis the rain was too hard of an piece, to actually learn as a beginner. Atm i went back to my original starting piece - robbie williams - feel, i learned the right hand, but got dismotivated from trying to learn the left hand because i think its really hard, but i guess ill just keep on trying!!

[ichky]

If you find it hard to play the original, there is nothing stopping you from playing a simplified improvisation version of it.

I play by ear, and I always simplify my playing so that it can be taught to novices.

But if you want to improve it is recommended that you eventually go back to trying the original again once you become confident enough again.

Kiss the Rain is easy believe it or not