I feel like my experience with piano could've been better. Obviously. I mean, for the longest time I've said, "I've been doing piano for close enough to 10 years, yet it only feels like I've been learning it for 5 years". Weird. You wanna know why?
I took piano lessons from 2010 all the way to 2014 and then stopped throughout 2015 and 2016. I didn't start piano lessons again until 2017 to 2019. Now this information's down, let me explain something:
An important thing to note is that the main reason why I got back to piano lessons in 2017 was because it was required for me to take them for my music subject. I had to perform pieces to get assessed in class. Back in the years 2010 to 2014, I didn't have that. It wasn't required. In other words, I was just learning piano for the sake of it; almost none of the pieces I learned were learned so I could perform them for assessment. And because I was learning a lot of my piano pieces for the sake of it, all that time was spent polishing my musicianship. I didn't get that chance when I took piano lessons in high school.
Every piece that I learned in 2017 to 2019 was there for performance. Sure, learning those pieces also helped me develop my musicianship, but it's not only there for practice. Think of it like this: say I'm part of a competetive sports team and the only practice and warmups I'd ever get to do were all my official games. Sounds like crazy talk, if you ask me. I didn't get the opportunity to dedicate lots of time to doing piano warmups and smaller pieces, as well as studying music theory with my tutor.
And guess what? All of that would've been cleared off if I only did piano in the years 2015 and 2016. Yeah, I'm feeling kind of guilty about that. But what can I do now?
No comments:
Post a Comment