Adult Learners- Come share your progress!

[nickadams]

As an adult learner I know how hard it can be to balance practice with work/family life and I also know how you can feel alone in your journey since most pupils around you are children...

So I thought it would be a good idea for adult learners to come here and share their progress and pat each other on the back and support each other!



EDIT: I guess I will start with myself! I started at age 18 and have been playing for ~3 years. I am not very good (~level 2) but I enjoy seeing improvements in my abilities and hope to continue to get better for years to come.

My goal more than anything is to be a good sight reader. I get such a thrill from sight reading even the simplest pieces, and I can't imagine how fun it would be to just look up a level 4-5 piece you think might be fun and play it prima vista!

[ranniks]

13-15 month beginner saying hi.

Working on multiple pieces. One is just impossible for me without my teacher to look at it with me, but I don't think that I can meet the speed to make the piece sound great.

That's the one. The problem is mostly the octave notes and the speed.

- Working on the little prelude 2 and just begun the little prelude 3. Not much progress on the latter.

- Working on grieg op 12 no 2. This piece is going the right way. The first page certainly seems doable.

- Working on Yiruma's River Flows In You. Much more difficult than I thought it would be.

My teacher said it would be good of me to practise multiple pieces, so here we go. It's fun either way. And to think, that of all pieces above, the most difficult is not among the classical pieces, but the anime piece, the first one, the steinsgate piece.

My main passion other than the piano takes most of my time, but piano will definitely remain in my life if I can help it.

[blkdm0n]

Cool idea for a thread.  So after 6 months of lessons back in 2004, I decided to get serious about truly learning piano.  On November 4th, 2013, I began an intensive course of study with an awesome teacher and thus far I've learned the following pieces:

Andante from Sonatina in F by Attwood
Ernst und Scherz by Beyer
Sarabanda by Corelli
Study in C minor by Czerny
Study in E minor by Gurlitt
Allegro K1 by Mozart
Rains of Castamere from Game of Throne

Some are polished and a few need work but I'm very happy with my progress.  No methods just a list of pieces that I selected and interest me.  I'm hoping to be working on grade 5 by November of 2014. 

[bronnestam]

I love piano music and I used to play the piano as a teen, but then it was hard to keep it up ...

I also used to think that one of the best things in life (at least when it comes to music matters)  was to attend a real concert and listen to a 1st class musician making a terrific performance with some of the music a love. It always sends me to 7th heaven and I leave the concert smiling, having the feel of having been in a wonderful dream for a while ...

Then I realized that there WAS something even better, and that was to play the music myself. You cannot get any closer! OK, so I'm not 1st class so this is a goal, not the present situation, but I have fun while I work towards that goal, and I enjoy every little progress I make.

My present projects are
- Sonata Pathétique
- Sonata 20 and 19 by Beethoven
- Arabesque I by Debussy
- Some of Bach's Inventions
- Moon River by Mancini
- Maple Leaf Rag and some other Joplin ragtimes
- B-flat Major Improptu by Schubert
- Rondo C Major by Beethoven

- learning how to #¤%& MEMORIZE pieces, my weakest spot. I am a good sight reader, at least if I play HS ...