Serenading the Soul: My Piano Voyage

Finally found some time to update my blog, its been a while. I've been practicing Over the Rainbow for the past week. The difficulty of just learning a song has increased significant, think adding chords and chord sounds in both hands, practicing jumps and adding damper pedal. My repertoire at this point is 4 minutes long, I think. So in my last class this previous Thursday, I wanted to add singing to my songs. I guess why not right? Plus I kind of wanted to get as much out of a class as possible. I'd been trying singing in my head and wanted to know if I could actually sing as well so I slyly asked him to teach me to sing in key a bit as well. Honestly, I didn't do as bad. I could sing notes and get my voice to blend in with them. It also boosted my confidence a lot! With practice, I could achieve my aim to be a good shower singer as well.  I've lately been having thoughts, earlier my future kid was supposed to become the best pianist in the world by starting early and...

Last couple of weeks have been interesting. Soon after finishing Bagatelle, I also completed Melody in G by Ludvig Schytte. Instead of doing a song a week, I was able to wrap it up in 2 - 3 days. So we decided to move on to "Over the rainbow" which has been one of my favorite sweet song. But the bigger thing is when playing you can make play it as advanced as you like. What do I mean by that? Okay so now instead of hitting just the C-major chord if the sheet tells you to everytime. You shift it to it's first inversion the next beat and the second inversion after which leads to lot of hand jumping. And I don't know my chords by heart which makes it incredibly difficult and overwhelming. That's just the left hand. Earlier the melody in the right hand would usually be a single note but that has changed. I can still do the single note but a better way to play it is - playing the octave of the note. An even better way to play, is by filling the octave with chord sounds...