I retired 4 years ago ... I started learning classical piano pieces 3 years ago

[NeoTrajan]

Starting with the 1st movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

It was so ambitious, it took 9 months to figure out the first page, then another 4 months to learn the remaining 3 pages

After rooting about for a new piece to learn, I finally ran into Chopin, whom I have never knowingly heard (I now realize I heard alot of his stuff without knowing it)

I started with Prelude #15, the so called 'Raindrop Prelude', and then proceeded to learn #'s 2, 4, 6, 7 and 20

While learning these pieces, I of course finally encountered Yuja Wang ... She's an absolute marvel

Here she plays all the 24 preludes as a cycle ... Like Bach, the works cover all major and minor scales

[Karadeniz]

1. I tried to learn piano as an adult. I had to stop when we got to the black keys !

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Funny!

I started playing a few weeks before I turned 5.
Switched to jazz piano at 9 or 10. Still play every day.
Thankfully, black keys are not an issue for me.

[fierywoman]

2. FWIW, I played in the orchestra of that theater for 7 years, 5 of them as

"concertina" or assistant principal viola.

As a string player, the only Chopin I've ever played was accompanying the piano concerto.

Check out Martha Argerich's Chopin ...

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Good For You!

Hope you have fun with it.
I'm 69 and have been playing nearly 65 years.
I still play piano & guitar every day. (I started playing guitar 50 years ago right after I graduated college.)
I don't perform anymore except the occasional open mic night on 12 string guitar.
But, I played in bands, mostly as a multikeyboardist, for 30 years.
I only lasted that long because it was fun.
It's supposed to be fun!
Here's an example of me having that fun. I wrote this sing in around 1990. I had the guitar player sing it, instead of me, because he really liked the melody. He repaid that generosity by playing the my guitar solo from the demo almost note by note.

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