Some listening to do!

I plan to post as many TOTALLY AWESOME piano videos I possibly can so you can come right here to listen to them!! There are so many, it was hard to pick what I would post first!! But here is a good one to start you off. It's Rachmaninoff's preludes in C sharp and G minor. Rachmaninoff was pretty awesome, I'll write more about him soon!

Piano music

Everyone is pretty partial to specific instruments, usually the ones they play the most. Flute, harp, bagpipes, slide whistle, what have you. Me, I tend to lean more toward the black and white sorts of instruments. The ones that look like this>>

They are seriously beautiful instruments, aren't they though? This was a piano Rachmaninoff himself once recorded on. 

Piano music can fit ANY mood, ANY genre, can imitate many beautiful pieces written for other instruments, and can bring people to tears. It's amazing what a combination of black and white keys can unlock in a person's soul. Words can't often express the feelings that piano music finds paths to. I love this instrument and I love the music it can create. Because of this love, I choose to teach the secrets of this instrument to others. Though it's easy to get caught up in the sometimes monotonous grind of practice, once you've reached a point when the notes become a delight to you, when you can put your feelings into sound and rhythm, you can look back on the work and time and energy you put into learning to master this wonderful instrument and you can feel a deep, deep sense of profound joy. That is the joy I want to bring to my students. I want them to feel the happiness and the peace that comes from using this instrument to create beautiful music. 

I will use this blog to post the most beneficial musical material I can find. I will also use it to discuss some of the many musical topics that I have discussed with my students over the years. I hope they can all learn and grow in their piano endeavors by looking to this blog as a guide along their journey to discover Piano.