Piano Right From the Start: “Learning to Play What You Feel!”
Imagine being able to sit down at your piano, place your hands on the keyboard, and just play! Many piano students think the ability to do this requires years of study. They couldn’t be more wrong!
Learning to play what you feel does not require extensive knowledge of harmony or theory. All that is required is the ability to do two things:
1. Believe that you know enough
2. Believe that you’re good enough
Thousands of classically trained pianists are able to play Rachmaninoff and Bach but are unable to express themselves poetically at the keyboard. Why? Because of the above 2 beliefs! It’s not enough to have mastered piano technique.
For example, many would be writers understand how to construct a compelling plot and know how a story should be written, but until they have freed their inner voice from criticism…until they believe that they are good enough to write that story, it simply won’t get done!
The same goes for music and any other art. I can’t tell you how many times I repeated the above 2 statements to myself...