Re: Hello from Emeryville, San Francisco Bay Area
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:17 am
Hello from NW INDIANA / Chicago area
I’m older than I want to admit and am resuming piano lessons after stopping at age 13. I got a lifetime subscription to Playground Sessions in 2016, but was too busy with work to stick with it. I’ve been going at it in earnest this summer, just finished the Rookie Tour and am on lesson 19 of the Intermediate tour. I can’t wait to get home to play! I love that I can go at my own pace, unlike when I took piano lessons as a kid, where being taught only part of a song per week with the teacher controlling the pace and curriculum was pretty discouraging. Every time I passed a piano over the decades I regretted that I never mastered the piano, so now I’m determined to become a decent piano player. I also like that music theory is mixed into even the early lessons.
Other folks posts here are encouraging - I’m comforted knowing that I’m not the only one wanting to bang my head into a wall to work through the end of lessons. I also remind myself that I’ve always heard accomplished musicians talking about the time they put into learning a song - I’m trying to be patient with the process (after being away from it for decades).
Interestingly, my hands had to get into “shape” - my weak pinkies are stronger now, and my hand span/reach has greatly improved in a short amount of time. I also repeated a lot of left- hand lessons because I was totally uncoordinated. That and my ability to read music are getting better pretty quickly.
I do wish that the iPad app took you right back to the lesson where we left off. I also wish that the iPad app had a tab where we could get all the analytics that the Playground Sessions app has on my computer.
Keep on doing a great job! I am really and truly enjoying Playground Sessions now that i’ve jumped in with both feet!
I’m older than I want to admit and am resuming piano lessons after stopping at age 13. I got a lifetime subscription to Playground Sessions in 2016, but was too busy with work to stick with it. I’ve been going at it in earnest this summer, just finished the Rookie Tour and am on lesson 19 of the Intermediate tour. I can’t wait to get home to play! I love that I can go at my own pace, unlike when I took piano lessons as a kid, where being taught only part of a song per week with the teacher controlling the pace and curriculum was pretty discouraging. Every time I passed a piano over the decades I regretted that I never mastered the piano, so now I’m determined to become a decent piano player. I also like that music theory is mixed into even the early lessons.
Other folks posts here are encouraging - I’m comforted knowing that I’m not the only one wanting to bang my head into a wall to work through the end of lessons. I also remind myself that I’ve always heard accomplished musicians talking about the time they put into learning a song - I’m trying to be patient with the process (after being away from it for decades).
Interestingly, my hands had to get into “shape” - my weak pinkies are stronger now, and my hand span/reach has greatly improved in a short amount of time. I also repeated a lot of left- hand lessons because I was totally uncoordinated. That and my ability to read music are getting better pretty quickly.
I do wish that the iPad app took you right back to the lesson where we left off. I also wish that the iPad app had a tab where we could get all the analytics that the Playground Sessions app has on my computer.
Keep on doing a great job! I am really and truly enjoying Playground Sessions now that i’ve jumped in with both feet!