Oscar Plays Piano | A Piano Beginners' Journey

So here it goes! You know what, as beginner pianists I think it's so important for us to constructively and honest review and critique our performances. For so long I put-off filming or recording my performance because of my fear it would be terrible... eekk!  But once I started doing it, it really helped to transform my technique, posture, confidence, and, ultimately, my performance and enjoyment.  S o today I'm sharing with you a live critique of my first Youtube performance of J.S. Bach's Prelude in C Major... I think I'll make this into a series, I found it really helpful and actually a lot fun sharing my thoughts.   I'd love to hear yours! :-)   Original Performance Vid - https://youtu.be/l2-v64R9EBk  ~  As an adult beginner I thought others may benefit from following my progress with the piano.   It has always been a lifelong ambition of mine to learn the piano and play publicly with confidence, joy and skill. I have been practicing now for exactly a year and I have learned so much that could help others who are also starting to learn this amazing instrument.   Learning the piano can often be challenging and isolating, so my goal is to share my experiences with others and to help you not feel alone. I'm going to be real and honest, I'm going to include my outtakes and mishaps, my goals and aspirations, and my tricks and tips.  I'm a piano beginner and proud! 👍🎹 I hope you enjoy my Journey  Oscar   Pieces played in this video:  - J.S. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 - Prelude in C Major  E quipment used:   - Roland FP-30X  - MacBook Pro M1  - Ableton Live  - Spitfire Audio Intimate Grand Piano  - Focusrite 2i2  - Tascam TM80  - Amazon Fire HD 10   #piano #pianobeginner #learningpiano #pianocritique #bach #bachprelude

A huge thank you to all of you are enjoying my content and find it useful! I already have some fantastic comments from you all and I thought I would start a new series where I answer your questions as best I can.   Here I give some advice about piano scales as a beginner, a few bits of advice that I wish I could give mysefl when I started out. Plus I talk about my methods for sight-reading notation on the piano and some tips and tricks that may help.  A big thank you to @patrickhenryjolly who asked me some cracking questions!  I hope this helps Patrick and I very much look forward to hearing how your piano journey goes!   ~  As an adult beginner I thought others may benefit from following my progress with the piano.   It has always been a lifelong ambition of mine to learn the piano and play publicly with confidence, joy and skill. I have been practicing now for exactly a year and I have learned so much that could help others who are also starting to learn this amazing instrument.  Learning the piano can often be challenging and isolating, so my goal is to share my experiences with others and to help you not feel alone. I'm going to be real and honest, I'm going to include my outtakes and mishaps, my goals and aspirations, and my tricks and tips.  I'm a piano beginner and proud! 👍🎹 I hope you enjoy my Journey  Oscar   Equipment used:   - Roland FP-30X  - MacBook Pro M1  - Ableton Live  - Spitfire Audio Intimate Grand Piano  - Focusrite 2i2  - Tascam TM80  - Amazon Fire HD 10   #piano #pianobeginner #learningpiano #fanquestions #pianoscales #sightreading #sightreadingpiano

Having reached a milestone, I thought I'd share my honest thoughts and reflections over my first full year as an adult piano learner... Then I perform one of my all-time favourite pieces from Ryuichi Sakamoto - 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' with some hilarious outtakes after. I sincerely hope you enjoy and please feel free share your thoughts.   ~  As an adult beginner I thought others may benefit from following my progress with the piano.   It has always been a lifelong ambition of mine to learn the piano and play publicly with confidence, joy and skill. I have been practicing now for exactly a year and I have learned so much that could help others who are also starting to learn this amazing instrument.   Learning the piano can often be challenging and isolating, so my goal is to share my experiences with others and to help you not feel alone. I'm going to be real and honest, I'm going to include my outtakes and mishaps, my goals and aspirations, and my tricks and tips.  I'm a piano beginner and proud! 👍🎹 I hope you enjoy my Journey  Oscar   Pieces played in this video:  - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence   Equipment used:   - Roland FP-30X  - MacBook Pro M1  - Ableton Live  - Spitfire Audio Intimate Grand Piano  - Focusrite 2i2  - Tascam TM80   #piano #pianobeginner #learningpiano

Why can it be so hard to keep motivated to play and learn the piano??   It's tough sometimes isn't it... you watch your favourite pianists or just child prodigies on Youtube and instead of inspiring you to keep playing piano, you sometimes feel the absolute opposite... DEMOTIVATION!!  I have it all the time, in fact I had a big dollop of demotivation immediately prior to making this video series. I felt that I wasn't improving, I sucked, I couldn't play any of the pieces I was learning... it was terrible guys!   And it kind of inspired me to do this video...  We all experience demotivation from time to time when learning and playing piano, and I wanted to share some of my best (tried and tested) strategies for dealing with the 'Monday's', and getting your sparkle back!  This is a 3 part series covering 7 of my most useful tips for getting, and most importantly, keeping motivated when learning the piano.  Please let me know your experiences and any strategies or tips you have, in the comments.  Oscar :-) xx   ~   As an adult beginner I thought others may benefit from following my progress with the piano.   It has always been a lifelong ambition of mine to learn the piano and play publicly with confidence, joy and skill. I have been practicing now for exactly a year and I have learned so much that could help others who are also starting to learn this amazing instrument.  Learning the piano can often be challenging and isolating, so my goal is to share my experiences with others and to help you not feel alone.  I'm going to be real and honest, I'm going to include my outtakes and mishaps, my goals and aspirations, and my tricks and tips.  I'm a piano beginner and proud! 👍🎹 I hope you enjoy my Journey  Oscar    Equipment used:   - Roland FP-30X  - MacBook Pro M1  - Ableton Live  - Spitfire Audio Intimate Grand Piano  - Focusrite 2i2  - Tascam TM80  - Amazon Fire HD 10   #piano #pianobeginner #learningpiano #motivation #motivate