Songs and Tutorials

Month two of learning piano. I decided I was going to learn "River Flows in You" by Yiruma. You know the one. That beautiful, flowing piece that sounds like liquid emotion pouring out of a piano. I could barely play a C major scale with both hands. What followed was three weeks of frustration, bad […]

Classical piano has a reputation problem. Everyone imagines dusty old music that sounds like a funeral march. And honestly, a lot of beginner classical is boring. Those simplified Mozart pieces in method books put me to sleep. But there's classical music that actually sounds cool. Pieces that feel alive instead of museum-piece dead. Here are

Piano teachers have opinions about this. Strong ones. The classical crowd says you need proper foundations. The pop crowd says learn what you love. Both are right. Both are wrong. Here's the actual difference: Classical piano emphasizes reading music precisely as written. Every note, every dynamic, every articulation matters. You're interpreting a composer's specific vision.

For my first six months, YouTube tutorials were my only teacher. Those falling-bar Synthesia videos where you just copy what you see. Felt efficient. I was learning songs! Except I wasn't really learning. I was mimicking. The moment I tried to learn a song without a tutorial, I was completely lost. The dependency problem is

First time I tried to figure out a song by ear I spent 45 minutes hunting for the first note. Just randomly pressing keys hoping one would match. It was painful. Now I can figure out most pop songs in maybe 15-20 minutes. Not because I have magical ears but because I learned some tricks

When I started learning piano everyone kept telling me to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and I wanted to throw my keyboard out the window. No offense to whoever wrote that song but I didn't buy a piano to sound like a kindergarten recital. Took me a while to find songs that were actually