First Year of Piano - Adult Beginner Progress

🎹 My first year learning piano! 🎹

When I started learning piano, I was inspired by others who had shared compilations on YouTube of their first year learning piano, so I started recording my journey in an effort to inspire others.

I’m really proud of how far I’ve come in a year! I didn’t realize how magical playing an instrument could be until I started with piano. It’s really motivating to realize that it doesn’t take nearly as much time as I thought it would.

If you’ve been thinking of learning an instrument, I encourage you to go for it!

Here's my "guide to learning piano" (free, nothin fancy, just a Google Doc): https://docs.google.com/document/d/12kNwpZS5R1xGCV-GS6H6wMz6QRSzoCus_03jumpn2pE/edit#

SONGS:
0:00 • Intro
0:08 • Fly by Ludovico Einaudi
0:32 • All My Life by K-Ci & JoJo
1:13 • A Whole New World from Aladdin
1:40 • saman by Ólafur Arnalds
2:12 • Improvisation
2:34 • Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi
3:53 • River Flows in You by Yiruma
5:01 • Bonus 😉

Some notes on my learning journey:
• I spent 30-60 minutes a day practicing most days (when I was actually learning a song).
• I learned songs from tutorials on HDPiano.com (high recommended! No sheet music involved!)
• I hired a teacher who uses the Simply Music method which I really love. It’s "playing first” approach (aka: you don’t learn to read until later on)
• I set performance goals (for small groups of friends) to help keep me focused on learning a song. This helped a lot.
• Later on, I did "7DaysofPianoProgress" daily videos when I was starting a new song to see how far I could get in the first week of learning a song. (Thanks Molly for the inspiration!)
• Near the beginning, I used a of habit trackers to help me keep to a regular practice schedule. Now I can’t help but practice!

Видео First Year of Piano - Adult Beginner Progress канала Jeremy Blanchard