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Rien
I received book 1 last week, I had been doing scales, hanon and practising some songs I found online. I looked through the book and it has nothing that really requires hand indepence. Just mirrored notes and a few single notes played at the same time as the right hand.
I ordered book 2 and it should arrive by the end of the month.
Does book 2 has any songs for hand indepence practice?

 

[Rien]

Rien
I received book 1 last week, I had been doing scales, hanon and practising some songs I found online. I looked through the book and it has nothing that really requires hand indepence. Just mirrored notes and a few single notes played at the same time as the right hand.
I ordered book 2 and it should arrive by the end of the month.
Does book 2 has any songs for hand indepence practice?

Book 2 goes much deeper in music theory and chords
It let’s you play rhythm and chords with the left hand and melody with the right.. and sometimes mirrored..
book 1 focuses more on the right hand and book 2 on both.

Is that what you mean?

 

[Woo-Fu]

I'm too much of a button masher. Seems like piano keys have a range of pressure just like those stupid playstation buttons. Meanwhile my button technique is 100% binary. I'm either not pressing it or pressing it just about as hard as I can short of injury.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Book 2 goes much deeper in music theory and chords
It let’s you play rhythm and chords with the left hand and melody with the right.. and sometimes mirrored..
book 1 focuses more on the right hand and book 2 on both.

Is that what you mean?

Yeah, it's that. Thanks.

 

[pauljeremiah]

I started teaching myself the piano about 2 years ago. I've played the guitar for over twenty years and can also play the drums, so it's something that I always wanted to learn. So I went to my local piano store and bought a mid-range electric upright and started to teach myself. The reason I went electric instead of acoustic is that the electric lets me use headphones while practising so no one else in the house has to hear me try to figure out a song all day.

 

[GamesAreFun]

I bought a new Kawai electric piano during lockdown, I had lessons as a child to read music and took a few piano exams. Probably a decade since I played but the sort of skill you don't forget, a lot of muscle memory once you know a piece sufficiently well.

I suggest hiring a piano teacher for a weekly lesson, unless you're very self-motivated.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Bumping and also commenting on a lot of posts from the first page - DO NOT learn using synesthesia or just mimicking what you see in the Youtube video, this will not help you past a certain point and form lots of bad habits (especially if you cannot correct them with a teacher). Instead learn how to read sheet music and work from the sheet, also knowing that the piece needs to be at your level, it is pointless to just power through on a piece that is way beyond your level, that time can be much better spend slowly improving.