Learning Project

I can’t believe that we have made it to the end of the semester! I started my journey with this learning project by setting a goal of being able to play “Piano Man” by Billy Joel on the piano. I believe that I have achieved that goal or am close to it at least. This […]

I can’t believe I am already on the tenth week of playing the piano! I have never stuck with learning something like the piano for this long unless my parents forced me too! This week I played from verse 8 to the end of the song. With this part, I learned the bridge of the […]

This week, I decided to document my ninth learning project post by taking a video on my Apple iPhone camera and posting it on YouTube. I played the song from the beginning to the end of the first verse. A few weeks ago I used iMovie to cut and paste clips of my video together […]

This week, I decided to try to learn how to play “Piano Man” by Billy Joel with the audio of the song. I found the audio on YouTube and used the video that I have embedded below!  I tried playing what I had learned on the piano in time with the audio of the song […]

This week, I began to play the start of the song to where I left off last week, ALL TOGETHER! I combined the intro, verse 1, verse 2 and even began playing some of the later parts into the song for fun! After working really hard at perfecting the first two verses of the song […]

This week, I focused on getting the 1st verse of the song “Piano Man” by Billy Joel to perfection. I have struggled with getting a little part of the 1st verse correct for 2 weeks now. At the time 16:30 of this video I embedded below, is the part that I struggle with the most. […]

This week, I engaged with my learning project with attempting the correct timing of the song “Piano Man” by Billy Joel. Over the last few weeks, I have just been playing the song without thinking about the correct timing. This song is to be played quickly but in ¾ timing. This means that there are […]

This week I decided to video tape myself playing the intro to “Piano Man” by Billy Joel. I spent over a week learning the outrageous intro and training my hands to play notes quickly while still being able to play the notes correctly.  This week, I used and app called iMovie. This app can be […]

This week has been a struggle with playing the song “Piano Man” by Billy Joel. I dedicated this week to playing just the left handed chords but I feel like my hands are too small to be able to stretch them out to play the large chords. It makes it tough to play with the […]

This week, I did 4 modules on the Simply Piano app and began to learn the right handed chords for the song “Piano Man” by Billy Joel.  On the app, it took me through series of challenges to help me better understand how to play the piano. The cool thing about this app is that […]