tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post8349556924588159144..comments2024-03-16T13:33:01.047-07:00Comments on Fickle Ears: Piano Proficiency (i)Stefan Kachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post-7378768269341418072009-11-24T13:28:04.913-08:002009-11-24T13:28:04.913-08:00Anon,
Thanks for your offer, whoever you are (obv...Anon,<br /><br />Thanks for your offer, whoever you are (obviously someone I know). I have to graciously decline, though. I was careful to save my course packet from undergraduate class piano. It's got all the scale and arpeggio fingerings and a bunch of exercises. If I decide to go that route, I could spend years just working through that stuff, probably on my own, but if not, there are many people around me that have formal piano training and could be of assistance, including (apparently) you.<br /><br />If you read the later entries in this series, though, you'll notice that I mention wanting to approach this instrument differently than I've approached the tuba. I'm not aiming to become a piano virtuoso, though I'd take it if I could get it, and I don't say that because I'm anti-virtuoso. If you're a regular reader, you know that I'm quite the opposite. Nonetheless, I'm intrigued at the prospect of approaching an instrument as an autodidact, and believe that doing so is the best reason I have to undertake this project in the first place. I want to find another voice, one that I'm increasingly convinced is in there somewhere. I want to understand the process of self-teaching in a way that I don't currently understand it. I want my technique to grow up around the music I'm interested in (not Mozart and Bach so much these days, though there was a time...) rather than the other way around, which is how it too often happens. Hopefully that makes sense. Let's talk in a couple of years and see if I feel differently.Stefan Kachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post-45705642229000393032009-11-23T20:41:26.368-08:002009-11-23T20:41:26.368-08:00I must recommend any of the simpler MOzart Sonatas...I must recommend any of the simpler MOzart Sonatas, and if you are serious about this, return to the Bach. I would actually be glad to help you with fingering sequences, that being my own largest challenge with Bach- fugues at least.<br /><br />Only problem is then I can't remail anonymous. hmmmm, not sure if its worth it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com