[grinsekatze]

My main reason for learning to play the piano is being able to compose or better express myself through music. I was "intuitively" learning to play the piano for 2-3 years, going through periods in which I would just sit at the piano and play the keys I liked, find the keys that corresponded with the sounds in my head and just letting go and having my hands move in the directions they wanted to. I got pretty cool results and loved the depth of my music, but I realized that I needed a teacher to make the next step.

Being guided by a teacher was invaluable and I recommend it to everyone. Mine focused on improvisation and music theory and i realy loved it. I was moving forward much faster than on my own. Unfortunately I lost trust in my teacher, after finding a little song on his youtube channel (he has a channel on which he teaches stuff with synthesia videos) that he shared a week after my first session with him, which resembled very much what I had been working on at home and shown him. I was really bummed out, never had the guts to ask him how that happened and stopped returning, because he kept asking me to play stuff that I worked on at home...and eventually I stopped playing alltogether.

After reading this article I got excited again about piano playing. Just found this awesome channel with lots of high quality synthesia teaching videos, including one of my favorite songs (Ab Ovo by Joep Beving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qRV68k3-jo )

[philbarr]

> I would just sit at the piano and play the keys I liked, find the keys that corresponded with the sounds in my head and just letting go and having my hands move in the directions they wanted to

this should not be underestimated. I've learnt piano from a young age but you can get "stuck" in your learning. this is a great way to free yourself and get back to enjoying it again