I’ve been doing piano lessons since new year. I had absolutely no knowledge beforehand so the tutor started me off on a very basic children’s book. It was great as it taught me the basics of note reading, timing, accents etc etc and I found it really helped ease me into it.
Once I’d finished that book we moved into book 2 in the series. Again, learnt a lot and felt like I was making progress. He said after book 2 we could move onto adult books but we ended up on book 3.
I totally understand why he’s doing this as I’m still struggling with some things in the kids books but I’m starting to get really bored. The songs are basic nursery rhymes and childhood songs like Yankee Doodle dande, twinkle little star etc and the way they’re written they don’t even sound like the songs they’re meant to be with huge pauses, simplified tunes etc
I know it sounds like I want to run before I can walk but I’m thinking couldn’t I still learn the basic stuff on adult songs that I actually recognise and like?
For example - Beatles Yesterday. Couldn’t we learn that line by line and still learn as we go along?
Im thinking of asking him if we can move onto proper music now but I feel a bit hesitant as I still can’t play some of the songs in the kids books… but I think some of that is that I just can’t be arsed to practice them. They’re boring. I was practicing an hour a day at the start and now I’ve not practiced in two weeks. Well … I have … but I’ve been learning a song off YouTube 🤦♀️
voting - YABU (you can’t ask to move onto more advanced stuff if you still can’t demonstrate that you can do the easy stuff)
YANBU - (you could still learn whilst playing songs you enjoy).