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Hello, seniorminnion, Congratulations to your piano ! I agree with Colin Nicholson that it is important to avoid learning bad habits, they are very very difficult to "unlearn" later on and I do hope you can find a teacher. It might be also an idea to ask your library for help to find begin...

I had similar experiences learning the guitar; as an adult it is sometimes presumed that you only want to 'knock a tune out' whereas I wanted to learn properly in as great a depth as a child starting out would . It was a great joy - and a bit of a shock! - when I found a teacher who did exactly tha...

There are many 'elder' pupils who enjoy classical piano pieces and there should be enough teachers who are happy to help. I might get critisized for this but I feel older teachers bond better with pupils of a similar age as they would have been taught back in the 40s to 60s about the great classica...

Thank you, Colin Nicholson for your kind advice.

I shall try now to trace the original by Friedemann Bach and go from there.

It seems difficult to figure out what is original
and what is artistic licence in a transcription.

Thanks from Kristina.

Hello, my name is Kristina1 and I am a beginner. I would like to know why in some modern scores and transcriptions I frequentlu find disharmonious tones? I have noticed that in older transcriptions there are no disharmonious tones to be found, Can anyone explain how these disharmonious tones “creep ...