Hello, I found this forum last night and I just registered. This is what I guess everyone does so I'll tell you about myself in regards to music-piano.
I turned fourteen years old recently, I am in eighth grade, I have been learning to play the piano for 6 years (I travel each summer so I cannot practice then
but I was younger than eight when I began playing the piano).
I have always been interested in music. However, I was not interested in practicing untill I was thirteen. Until then, I had been playing simple pieces out of a book of Beethoven I had. My teacher was awful, I never learned scales, excersizes, correct fingering, triplets, trills, tremolos, mordents, ANYTHING from her.
When I was at the end of my thirteenth year, I began lessons with a new teacher, learned everything I should have before, played Rondo Alla Turca by Mozart (four times as difficult and four times as long as anything I had played previously) in an alarmingly finished manner, due to my excellent teacher. After that, I played Chopin's (my favorite composer by so far) Nocturne in C# minor (op posthume, lento con gran espressione),
and now I am playing Chopin's Revolutionary Etude, Opus 10 number 12, a remarkable jump for me, due again to my excellent teacher. I am learning it faster than I would have thought, it is technically much simpler than I previously thought (except the middle section, with the C# minor chords in the right hand, haha, but it's not too troublesome).
My user name, by the way, is a combination of the names of Chopin and Liszt, wioth an "e" at the end because I like the way it looks better.
Topic: first post here, hello