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I see a lot of people recommending Hanon so have been trying out the first one or two myself. I'm not quite up to the standard of this guy yet...:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mnxstPyphA Al the Hanon exercises are available here for free download if you want to try them out before buying the b...

On that note (no pun intended)
Radio Ballet by Eluvium would be pretty great too.

jcamilo.36 wrote:Hello,

I would like to suggest these songs:

Tokka and Chord left from Agnes Obel
River Flows In You from Yiruma

Dorian by Agnes Obel would be great too!!

Hi, I just bought two practice books for the piano and I think (hope) they will help with my coordination. They were relatively cheap under 10$ each. 1) Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics: Schmitt Preparatory Excercises for the Piano The inside says "five finger excercises". 2) Shirmer's Library...

Please Please please... Le Onde (by Ludovico Einaudi) is one of my all time favorites if you're looking for something new to add ...this one (for me) would be a real crowd pleaser... Craig Ogden does a lovely version for classical guitar and i've heard a few versions on piano which sound exceptiona...

Thank you so much for your help! Sometimes it's great to hear about someone else's progress (it keeps me motivated). I will definitely be trying out anki for the sight reading! I completely get what you mean my your mind getting tired. I can actually feel my mind when it starts to shut down, it's ki...

You probably want to play for no less than thirty minutes, an hour if you can. Part of being able to schedule significant stretches of time will be if you play with good posture - the more relaxed your body is while playing, the longer you'll be able to play or practice. Obviously you can only rela...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to practice more regularly. :roll: I want to come up with a schedule for how much to practie each day. I also want to learn songs as well as going through the bootcamp. I want to divide up my time between the two. Does anyone have any ideas or schedules that worked for them? ...

Thank you both for the reply. 2Sweet4er....I haven't bought an IPad yet, and my digital piano has a recorder on it. I haven't used it yet, but i would much rather used something like an IPad or my digital camera to record. This way I'm able to see my form. I would try with my digital camera first, ...

Same thing happens to me. I just go to click around to other things in the program (like: my playground, or sometimes I act like I'm going to play one of the lessons again) then eventually go I back to the dashboard and it loads the progress.