I've been learning how to play piano now for two years...that's right, a big two years. I have lessons once a week for 45 minutes, although we are flexible and sometimes do a double lesson one week and skip the next if one of us is going to be really busy for awhile and have a hard time making the lesson.
Here at home, I don't have the space or the money for a piano (yet!) so I'm playing on my husband's old YAMAHA PSR-300, which has 36 keys. This doesn't offer the range in octaves like a piano would, but I'll make do until I can level up to owning my own piano.
I'm practicing out of this book... "The Russian Piano School" vol. 1. It's okay, its good for beginners who want to learn but don't want to only practice endless scales. The first few pages really are very basic, easy pieces, whole notes only even, but it ramps up to get more complicated naturally. I'm in the more complicated section now, but I've lost the motivation to really work with this book anymore. The songs are not really very interesting to me and I don't enjoy practicing them.
So what I have done instead is searched all over the place and downloaded hell loads of sheet music. Whatever I like-even if I can't play it yet...got to have something to work for right? I've picked up all kinds...classical sheets à la Moonlight Sonata and Chopin's Funeral March, popular songs (less of those, sorry to say), some awesome-o ragtime pieces from the 1890s-1900s (Scott Joplin--still too complicated for me) like Maple Leaf Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag, and some soundtrack pieces, for example I have a few sheets for Twin Peaks and all of the sheets for Cowboy Bebop. If you don't know about these shows, check them out, it's understandable if you don't like the series for whatever reasons, but they both had killer amazing soundtracks and I'm looking forward to learning to play some music from them in the future.
I'm hoping to update here with my progress on what I've been practicing and update anyone who reads this about my progress.
