My learning experience has been as I would like to describe a rollercoaster. Some weeks I felt great about my achievement and some weeks I struggled to learn or perfect a song. I think I’m pushing it too much and I started to be frustrated that this is a difficult skill to master, but it’s not impossible. I think it made me realize how practice makes perfect and if I want to be a good player this learning project can’t stop now. Now it’s time for me to also return to Mexico so this is also a goodbye letter. I promise I will keep on learning, in fact, I already…

I got inspired on TikTok by watching many clips of people playing classics on the piano. The tricky part is that most classic songs are super hard and composed for advanced levels. I saw a video on TikTok and it seemed to be an easy song so I had to give it a go! This piece is Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. I searched for the tutorial so I could have the music sheet for free or at least the free part of the song. This piece was a tricky one. I have practiced my left hand so much, and this piece required me to do almost the same pattern with the…

This week I finally continued a song, the Spirited Away theme. I found it difficult to learn both hands for the second part of the song so I opted for a new strategy. I learned the first part of the song with both hands and for the sound part, I focused only on the right hand. I feel like I need to practice more but because of school, I haven’t had a lot of time. I don´t want to be left behind so I’m planning on adding more study hours to my piano project. I found that this ability needs a lot of practice and maybe it’s a bit late…

This week I had a moment of epiphany. I was listening to this playlist on Spotify because, honestly I wasn’t feeling motivated to look for a song to play on the piano. I was feeling frustrated because there are a lot of songs I would like to play but they are too difficult. While I was listening to the songs a new one started and since the first note was played I knew right away which song it was. It is called One Summer Day and it is from the soundtrack of the movie Spirited Away. This is one of my favorite movies so I knew I had to at…

For this week I was thinking about which song should go next. With the previous ones I get somewhere good and then I move into the next song but this time I tried to pick one that wasn’t so easy. I love Olivia Rodrigo’s songs, I love to sing, I’m terrible at it but I love to do it. Olivia is one of my favorite female singers and she’s so talented on the piano too. Her new song, Vampire, is a masterpiece. I always sing it like I’m heartbroken even if I’m not, is such a great song, and recently I watched on Tiktok this guy dressed as Michael Myers…

While analyzing my previous video I could tell that I’m not even doing a proper hand posture. I think it’s something really important to fix as a beginner because those bad habits could be difficult to fix later at a more advanced level. I could feel in some songs my hand is not big enough but I could find videos and articles talking about how to improve your hand posture. One of the videos I found the most helpful was this one This channel has a lot of useful tips for beginners and with practice, I was somehow able to fix that mistake but sometimes I forgot and I started…

For this week I tried a new online resource. It’s a webpage where you can find lots of music sheets for beginners   The bad thing is that you have to pay to get the music sheets. But you can print a sample (it only gives you 1 page free) and that’s what I did! So instead of getting 2 pages, I got 1 for free, so it’s okay because I’m still learning. I think it’s a great resource for the future because there are a lot of songs to choose from, even the newest ones! So later would be a great investment. This week I’m learning the Halloween Theme…

To start from the beginning, I need to know how to properly read the notes in a music sheet. This week I’m focusing only on that, I don´t want to rush because it’s a lot to digest. I found YouTube to be my best ally and found this video and channel to be helpful. I´m trying to memorize the positions on the music sheet, the different notes, how long to they are, the divisions on the music sheet, and with which hand you should play each part.   This video made me feel better about cheating on my previous piano learning history. I just memorized the songs, watched people playing…

As I told you before, sometimes I fixate on things I want to learn, so one time I asked as a birthday present to have an electronic piano keyboard, I promised my parents I would learn by myself, but then I started University and left it aside to learn Italian and German. My mom was angry at me because I didn’t use it, so once in a while, just on school breaks I would watch YouTube videos to start learning, but I could only start to learn how to read the notes and how to play some basic songs, but because I didn’t have enough time, I’m at a beginners…