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You're welcome - I'm pleased you found it helpful.

Thanks - I'm pretty pleased with them as well, and really like the Russian Winter piece.

Thanks and welcome

I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

Thanks David

Sorry, but I don't really understand your comment (translated as "I'll be back in 2025") - did you intend it for this video?

Thanks for the encouragement.

Thanks - one of my all time favorite games - Still waiting on HL3 🙂

Thanks - glad you found it useful

Thanks - I will do. Congrats on your new piano - an investment in many hours of enjoyment and pleasure.

You're welcome - to be honest, I've been a bit lax on that front, and I saw your query which reminded me. I'll try to remember to do it a bit more regularly. Re sight reading, that sounds pretty good. Jane has a library for her students to borrow sight reading material from, so they are playing pieces rather than just a couple of lines, but SRF sounds like it's more customizable. At the moment, I'm not up to sight reading a piece, so I use the random selection from the book I displayed today.

Hi, I can't recall Jane saying something about taking on a piece three times, so not sure on the context of that comment. Good to know you are making progress and enjoying the process. I've just done my review for last week, and included a list of the books I'm currently using if you are interested.

@lshwadchuck5643 Odd - I'm seeing something from you re Jane pointing you to a place to buy the book with Russian Winter, but I'm also seeing that you have ordered something. Not sure what's going on there. Jane usually points her students to a place called Piano Traders here in New Zealand, but that's probably not much help if you are elsewhere. The book is Piano Time Pieces Book 2, Pauline Hall, Oxford University Press, and it's very popular, so you should be able to get it at most piano music stores, and possibly even directly from Oxford University Press if they have an online store.

@@ShanesPianoJourney Yes, I have ordered it from OUP, only way I could get it in Canada.

@@lshwadchuck5643 I'm sure you will find it a good book - Jane has a few of Pauline's books and I expect I'll be getting more pieces from this one in due course.

Thanks Luigi - I was pretty happy with it.

It's always good when you can learn something new, and I think with piano, you will never run out of opportunities, even if it is just learning a new piece or applying a different interpretation to one you already have learnt. Keep it up.

Hi Amanda, thank you for your lovely comment. I can assure you Jane is that nice with all her students 🙂

Thanks - I can't see me learning it all anytime soon, so it may even be decades 🙂

Thanks

Thanks Luigi! I typically practice 4-5 times per week (30 minute sessions), and I usually have one 30 minute lesson per week (Jane doesn't teach during school holidays, so there are only about 38 lessons a year). Given you have asked about "time", perhaps you can help me with something - I've been wondering whether statistical info like this is interesting to people, and considered adding it to the start of my performance videos. For example, I'm retiring Arabesque this week, and like all the other performances it's not going to be polished, because that's not why I'm learning the piece. I've had it for 14 weeks, practiced it 59 times, for a total of 7h56m of practice. So, about 8m per practice session. Do you think that kind of detail is useful to viewers?

hi Shane, yes, it's interesting just to understand How many hours it takes more or less to be able to play a song reasonably well. But it could also be useful to encourage other people not to give up at the first difficulty they encounter when playing the piano, and also to dispel the myth that in adulthood it is no longer possible to play the piano. Which is absolutely wrong and not true. I'm currently doing exercises for hand independence And I think it's the fundamental thing and I do study sessions more or less like yours but for an hour each. I'm working on a song called Gnossienne n.3 by Eric Satie. A bit difficult because the left hand has to do a lot of jumps. But I'll try. I hope one day to be able to upload it to RUclips but I'm not very expert on this platform. bye until next time.

Thanks Luigi. I've just posted a vid that goes into detail on how I practice, so that may also be of interest.

Thanks for that

You're welcome. Another channel that I'm sure will be helpful is the one that Jane (my wife and teacher) has: www.youtube.com/@AccelerandoPiano/videos And there's a good video there for the sock fetish :-) ruclips.net/video/T9kU2S00fsc/видео.htmlsi=g_BsY4rVA2ip_ZcQ

Forgot to mention - the socks are by a company called "Happy Socks" if you want to check them out for yourself, and Jane (and I) have quite a selection.😀

You're welcome. Another channel that I'm sure will be helpful is the one that Jane (my wife and teacher) has: www.youtube.com/@AccelerandoPiano/videos The tutorials are mainly technical, but there is one tutorial that covers a complete lesson on learning how to play a piece called Struttin' that may be of interest (I started learning it in Week 28 if you want to see my lesson on it). Incidentally, the sound quality gets better in later weeks, so hopefully that will make the lessons more useful also.

Yep -It's lesson 45. I guess you must be more talented than you think.

Thanks Luigi

You are so welcome!

Thanks - had a few setbacks on that piece, but got there in the end.

Thanks for the advice - I appreciate your interest. If I've been exposed to triads, I don't remember it :-) but I'll pass this on to Jane and see can point me to some material etc. Cheers.

@@ShanesPianoJourney No problem, and I understand both teaching methods - to introduce this system early or not introducing it to keep things simple and focusing on the score solely. Just a disclaimer because the intention isn't to step on your teacher's toes 😂

@@wolfpsx6210 Jane wouldn't be offended, so don't need to worry about that. If she hasn't taught me those at this point there will be a reason and if she has, she will remind me, so all's good 🙂

Thanks - it's come a long way since then. It was sounding pretty fluid at practice this morning, so it's getting there 🙂

You're welcome - thanks for the encouragement

Hi Luigi - Congratulations on starting your own journey. I hope it's as challenging and rewarding as mine has been. It can be hard at times, but stick at it, and I'm sure you will succeed. If you haven't already seen it, you may find Jane's channel helpful. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/@AccelerandoPiano

@@ShanesPianoJourney thank you for your suggestion. Right now I have a private lessons with a degree of piano teacher. I’m studying on Hanon and Bayer books just to take a confidence with the keyboard.

Sorry, but you are going to need to explain how you link Celine (I presume you mean Dion) to this video which as far as I am aware, has no link to her at all??

@@ShanesPianoJourney im enjoying your videos. And gosh, this comment made me laugh once i realised what was going on! lolol. Keep going, i play violin and my advice is keep on practicing. Well done. I also got a few tips from this lesson :)

@@amandacollecutt2491 I'm pleased you are enjoying the videos - it's nice to know that they are benefiting a wider audience than just me. I'm still not really sure what is going on with that comment, but perhaps it's about a different video. Cheers, Shane

You've welcome - great that you found it useful.

Thanks. Only 3 days of the holiday left, but I'm making the most of it 🙂

@@ShanesPianoJourney The holidays have only just begun here.

@@Tautropfenoase Enjoy them while you can - they go way too fast in my experience 😥

Thanks - Great you enjoyed it.

You are so welcome! Jane has a channel of her own with tutorials that you may also find helpful - www.youtube.com/@AccelerandoPiano

You are so welcome!

I hope you're making progress - it can take a while, and but I'm slowly getting it :-) Yep, the naming is a bit confusing, even giving me some trouble about 3 months back, so I understand the confusion. How it works - The Y02 is Year 2 of my journey, and W05 is week 5 of that year. Lesson numbers are as they seem, but the confusion comes in because they don't match the week number. Jane only teaches for 38-40 weeks a year, so that's why I was having my 47th lesson on the 57th week of my piano journey. It it helps with Arabesque, I started it on W55, and I'm about to start W63 tomorrow, and I'm still working on it - All up it gets between 40 and 60 mins practice a week (across 4-6 practice sessions).

Thanks - that's a lovely comment. Jane's like that with all her students - I imagine it's a little different with me, but based on what I hear from her sessions with other students, it's similar. It probably comes down to the student really - some are more relaxed, and she's taught them for years, some are newer and more self conscious.

You're welcome - have fun with your playing!

You're welcome. I'm not sure if you are interested from the perspective of "You're now a teacher yourself, and looking for ideas on how to teach others" or "you're a fellow learner who is wondering if you missed out on some things". If the latter, you may also want to take a look at Jane's Accelerando Piano channel and website (you can find links under my header), which has tips and tutorials based on her teaching over many years.

Thanks - I appreciate the support. Cheers

Good for you - age should never be a barrier to learning something new. I hope your journey is going well. Best wishes

@@ShanesPianoJourney Thank you! Yes, I can do it. It's a lot of work though. Now I’m confidently playing Adagio BWV 974, practicing the strokes and intonations. True, I haven’t learned it by heart, I play it from notes. And I set about analyzing the second part of BWV 1056. Greetings from Russia.

Thankyou - and likewise, greetings from New Zealand. I have to confess I don't recognize those pieces you mentioned, but you are a year ahead of me on your journey, so perhaps I'll encounter them as I progress.

@@ShanesPianoJourney Adagio, BWV 974 ruclips.net/video/2x-OHljZzHQ/видео.html BWV 1056 ruclips.net/video/zc5lhK00GSg/видео.html This is me playing the notes. I also learned and play without notes BWV Anh. 126 ruclips.net/video/Fa8Wqn2fDaA/видео.html BWV Anh. 114 ruclips.net/video/RC8Kn88_L8Y/видео.html BWV Anh. 115 ruclips.net/video/35zbDdK-kwk/видео.html BWV 846 ruclips.net/video/iWoI8vmE8bI/видео.html Tchaikovsky ruclips.net/video/dbsJKyb5m9w/видео.html Korovitsyn ruclips.net/video/T9kqWPU4EuM/видео.html Of course, I don’t play as beautifully as pianists who have more than 10 years of experience.

It's the same piano Jane uses when teaching, so it's regularly tuned by a local professional.

@@ShanesPianoJourney ok, probably a bad microphone position. Anyway, good luck with practising.

@@mrsmokpiano Thanks - it's also possibly the post processing that gets done. I didn't intend to do any on that video (quick and dirty was the plan) but it turned out that I needed to process it, so I just did my normal processing which focuses on speech rather than on piano given it's the instruction I'm interested in.

No tutor methods that I'm aware of. I'm perfectly happy with what I'm doing, so that's all that really matters.

Thanks - sounds like the coach is really working for you, so perhaps it's time to revisit the idea of a local teacher - the right one won't push you beyond what you can achieve, so you will move forward in a positive way

You're welcome - Jane may well have given me the La Candeur option - she doesn't as a rule say "this is what you are learning". It's a process where she selects some pieces she thinks may appeal and which will serve to develop skills she wants me to work on at an appropriate level, and then she lets me choose. I pick the one(s) I like the sound of, and Arabesque fit the bill this time round.

Hi, good for you - that's the whole point isn't it - to see something you like the look of and just decide to play it 😊. Have fun.

Hi Matt, thanks for watching and commenting. Yep, we've talked about dynamics. At this stage I'm just happy to get the notes right, my foot coordinated, and it sounding somewhat reasonable. I will be adding it to my sight reading rotation, so I'll try and apply some of your tips then.