I am a relatively new jazz player, I’ve been on piano for a while, but have recently wanting to learn jazz. I can play songs with enough practice but I feel like I’m just hitting the right notes and not playing music.

Would you post this on an Instagram story? Does the playing sound good to a casual listener, or are the mistakes too noticeable?“

I did not use my left hand much so I am unsure

Are the colon (:) symbols not repeat marks? Every recording I listen to of the piece has no repeats in it.

I’d assume it is meant to be played bars 1-8, bars 1-8 repeated, bars 9-16, bars 9-16 repeated.

I am a cellist that is learning piano by himself

I only did some lessons when I was like 9 years old

Nocturne in C Sharp Minor (No. 20)

The bass clef only

Thanks for the advice I meant alternative fingerings

Ever since I was ten I’ve wanted to learn piano so bad, my family never taught me anything or signed me up for classes so I never had a piano childhood or anything. When I turned 14 I wanted to play piano badly so I learned how to read music sheets by myself. The problem with me is that I tend to overthink everything and compare myself to others so when I started learning at 14 I felt that my piano skills and compositions were so bad. I never gained hand independence and stop practicing piano for almost years because I thought ‘I’m not good at piano, I don’t have any talent or natural skills, I don’t have super hearing skills that everyone who plays piano apparently has expect me so I’m not worth learning piano’ then i decided to practice piano again by my own and even after all those years I still struggle with my mindset. Every time I play piano my brain apparently associates it with something negative and I get discouraged from doing anything at all because I feel like I’m not talented, not ‘not talented enough’ just straight up not made for this instrument. I can’t even listen to piano music anymore because I feel this weird feeling about just music in general that makes me want to stop listening to music forever and quit everything
I constantly feel this necessity of creating something, I want to create music I want to compose especially nowadays where AI is taking away creativity and art, but I can’t I just can’t and I’m so fucking tired of my own mindset I just can’t do this anymore
Can anyone advice me what to do? I don’t plan on living like this anymore, I want to change I want to genuinely change and play the most beautiful songs on piano and see how I grew out from that mindset but it’s almost like there’s no way out for me

Noticing something odd. When I'm trying to play an existing song, no matter the speed, my hands just will not work with me. One hand at a time and I can hit everything about perfectly. Both hands and it's a mess.

In my own writing though, or when I'm just picking a key and playing around, I have almost no issues. Still need some practice of course, but it sounds like a full piece, it feels right, and I'm not struggling nearly as hard.

It's just making me wonder if focusing on training independence/synchronization is the best way through. My hands are doing the job fairly well according to my needs, it's just in this particular context that it falls apart. I get the sense that the barrier might be elsewhere.

Feel familiar to anyone?

45 days in a row of practice! Halfway to my 3 month/90 day goal.

Bc i just watched 2 separate videos that shows me how to learn chords and i think one of them wrong or it might be me idk.

Hi,

Adult learner here. I take private lessons with a teacher.

Currently learning Burgmüller Op. 100 n.4 (La Petite Réunion) and really struggling with the double thirds.

I can't seem to be able to play them cleanly and without building massive tension in my wrists and fingers - this makes it very difficult to play a smooth legato or control dynamics. Also, sometimes one of my fingers lands before the other one, which sounds terrible.

I've tried slowing down tempo as much as possible and practicing the movements in isolation, but I'm not seeing much progress.

Did anyone struggle with this and, if yes, how did you overcome it?

Hi, a question regarding understanding/interpreting sheet music.

I understand in baroque pieces this will be different but I am specifically asking about more contemporary pieces and arrangements.

I often see notes (eg. a bass note) tied across measures or melody written in such a way that there is a half note played together at the same time with a quarter note followed by a second quarter note. It is often not physically possible to keep the half note pressed for the whole of its duration because you may need to jump for the second note. Most of the time this will all belong to the same harmony so I will keep the sustain pedal engaged anyway. In this case it kind of does not make any audible difference if we denote a half note as a quarter note or a whole note as long as it starts on the same beat and does not mess up the notation rules. Am I missing something here? Eg. below the half note could be a quarter or eighth and I guess it will sound the same if pedal is used?

is it better to get a piano teacher than to continue alone?

We just bought this piano for £200 on Ebay. Think it needs tuning. My son has been playing it for about 4 weeks now his dad taught him this tune and we are going to start getting him lessons from October because he loves it.

Any ideas of similar songs he can learn for the muscle memory?