Goddamned ivories! Arrrrrrgghhh!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

It isn't often I throw a fit at my poor, pathetic little spinet piano, but today I'm just really angry at it.

Teacher says: "Oh, you know what you need to practice now? Modulating the volume of each hand. Try playing the left hand really quietly while the right hand plays loudly, and vice versa."

Easier said than done, bucko. MUCH easier said than done.

:banghead::banghead:

I didn't even know where to start, so I just tried playing the same up-and-down pattern with my right hand loudly a thousand times, until it was in my muscles some, then adding the left hand quietly.

I did this for forty-five minutes.

:banghead:

And I STILL can hardly do it! This is going to take a bazillion years.

:cry:

Goddamned piano. Because it's all its fault, of course. Not my fault at all. No sir....I'm only the person playing. If those keys would play themselves....

:crazy:

It's definitely not my fault. Seriesly! :crazy:

[reyd reid reed]

1. Awwwwww....of course it's not your fault...

seriesly, it can't be. The practice is only to prove that you've been able to do something all along, it's not Your fault that the piano's being wonky.

It's not Your fault that the gremlins get in there and try and make you crazy.

It's not Your fault that those forty-five minutes felt like a lifetime...

Go have some ice cream. Then come back and give the piano The Look.

Whither that puppy. Make those keys just shrink away to nothing.






Then practice some more.



:hide:


You'll get there.


:hug:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. Someday.

Feel like a fucking fool until then. x( x(

:hug:

[leftofthedial]

3. "touch" is really tough on piano and comes only with much practice

attack
volume
dynamics
emphasis

it's key though, to keep the melody strong no matter which finger it moves to

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. The way my teacher talked, you'd think he expected me to do it pronto!

:crazy:

[leftofthedial]

5. one hand louder than the other is the first, simple step

think of your fingers as caressing the music out of the piano on soft songs

and beating it out of the piano on the loud parts . . .

sometimes, you beat part of it while caressing another part

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. It doesn't seem simple at all.

:( :(

It's driving me bonkers. I have no issues whatsoever with playing two hands together, even when they're doing totally separate things. But for some reason the volume control thing seems 1000000000x times more complicated than it probably should.

:crazy:

[leftofthedial]

9. want me to beat up your teacher?

please don't say yes

although all the piano teachers I know are sadists . . .


on edit: TypingIsApparentlyNotMyReligion

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. My teacher isn't a sadist, fortunately.

He's rather repetitive, and not the world's most interesting guy, but he doesn't SEEM to derive pleasure from me fucking up.

Your edit--:rofl::rofl:

[TrogL]

7. Try playing Moonlight Sonata

You need to have your right-hand fifth finger playing at a different volume than the rest of the fingers on that hand, and it's primarily playing in octaves with your thumb. Baby's got the melody, everything else is accompaniment.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Hmmm....

:dilemma:

[Ava]

11. this is begging to be copy catted

:rofl:

[Floogeldy]

12. Hey

Slow down the tempo. You have to be able to play it slowly before you can play it at proper speed.

Repetition is the key. No hurry.

Relax and feel it.